J. Wilson made it!

(CNN) – "J. Wilson has survived his 46-day beer-only fast and found some unexpected spiritual insights.

Wilson, who lives outside Des Moines, Iowa, was emulating a Lenten tradition carried out by German monks hundreds of years ago. In keeping with tradition he ate his last solid food on Ash Wednesday and broke his fast on Easter Sunday.

“I made a bacon smoothie and that’s what I broke the fast with,” Wilson said." Full Article here

I posted this a couple of weeks ago when he had just started his beer fast for lent. J. Wilson made it all 46 days and then eased back into eating food with a bacon smoothie. Interesting choice of smoothie but his doctor told him that he shouldn't really eat solid food the first three days after breaking his fast. I am actually inspired by this and think it would be a nice challenge for next lent. 

Who thinks I should do it?

Meadhall: Soft Opening Today in Kendall Square

"Soft opening today in Kendall's former Quantum Books (aww man, really?), this loungy, semi-industrial beer castle plates upscale lunch-thru-late night vittles (from an egg-topped steak tartare w/ anchovy vinaigrette to a signature VT turkey, bacon & avocado club), and pours over 100 draughts (including Peak Hop Noir, Wee Heavy Scottish Ale, McChouffe Brown, Hoptical Illusion, and Storm King Stout) in a 32-table (plus upstairs lounge) space rocking high ceilings hung with faux candle chandeliers, and comfy leather couches that overlook a massive 36-seat copper island bar lit by a series of elegant banker's lamps -- though try all the beers available, and the only one being carried will be you." -Thrillist.com

This sounds like a sweet set up. Looking at the picture of the draught menu, I only have one question...where is the Mead? If you are going to call yourself Meadhall, I would expect to see at least one Mead on tap. I'm thinkin' of going to check it out today after work. Anyone want to join?

Source: Thrillist

This is what beer should be about.

United They Craft: Local brewminaries collaborate for annual beer week.

"It was a brewer de force Friday as nine Fort 
Collins brewers joined together for the first 
time to create a collaboration beer in honor 
of American Craft Beer Week.
Brewers from C.B. & Potts, Coopersmith's, 
Crooked Stave, Equinox Brewing, Fort 
Collins Brewery, Funkwerks, New Belgium 
Brewing Co., Odell Brewing Co. and Pateros 
Creek converged in Old Town early Friday 
morning to start the brewing process, 
which was split between Cooper-smith's 
and Equinox's facilities." - Coloradoan.com

Honestly, I think this is awesome. Seriously, beer is meant to be drank, celebrated and 

shared amongst friends. I know that whenever I make beer I always invite over a friend or two

just because it is more enjoyable that way. Really a cool article and worth checking out

The latest and greatest piece of shit beer to come from Anheuser Busch-InBev.

"The 2011 Anheuser Busch-InBev shareholders meeting on Tuesday was never going to generate news. “We’ll have a press conference but you won’t learn anything,” a spokeswoman said.

First-quarter results are due to be presented on May 4, so the company didn’t want to jump the gun, although the so-called “quiet period” before earnings is a cultural choice, not the law.

What the company did want to talk about was the new alcohol-free drink rolled out by home unit InBev Belgium, the Hoegaarden 0.0. The Real Time Brussels team agreed to taste-test a six-pack, as it did for the Jupiler Force.

The H0, of course, is named after the classic wheat Hoegaarden that says Belgian summer like a day at the beach in Ostende or reading a book in a Brussels park.

Under CEO Carlos Brito, AB Inbev invests considerably in flashy marketing. And the Hoegaarden 0.0 is stylish, with design centered around a Gothic rendition of “0.0”, that looks like two ghost eyes, printed on a light yellow can with white wheat germs.

The verdict on taste was mixed. Your correspondent found the drink akin to a watered-down lemon Fanta. OK — refreshing even — if you know what you’re getting.

“It’s lovely, like a Hoegaarden shandy,” said a female colleague, referring to a beer and soft drink cocktail.

Male colleagues’s reviews were more bitter. “Like sweet dish soap,” said one.

In the end, Mr. Brito said in brief remarks at the press conference, the point of a big beer company is to offer brands for all tastes, or, as he put it, “you want a portfolio [of drinks] that allows consumers to stay within your franchise.”

Anheuser hopes its range of alcohol-free drinks will help its campaign for responsible drinking, and balance out sluggish beer sales in Europe. “Some beverages, like water, and soft drinks,” are doing better than beer, Mr. Brito said" -WSJ.com

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Anheuser Busch-InBev is rolling out a new beer, just in time for the summer. It is a 0.0% abv take on, an actually pretty good beer, Hoegaarden. This article was just too good to not read and laugh at. If anyone has ever had Hoegaarden they know it is a wheat beer made in Belgium. It is also one of those beers that got bought out by InBev-Anheuser Busch a while back and they still sell it under the Hoegaarden name but essentially it is made by Anheuser Busch-InBev, the same people who bring you great beers like Budweiser and Bud Light (definitely being sarcastic). So it comes as no surprise to me that they go ahead and take a fairly good tasting beer and turn it into complete crap.


Some of my favorite parts of the article...
1. When they talk about the flashy marketing that AB InBev is known for: This is kind of a no brainer. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising their beer every single year, because nobody would drink it unless they were force-fed adverts that associate the beer with football, hot chicks, and awesome cars. 
2. "It’s lovely, like a Hoegaarden shandy,” said a female colleague, referring to a beer and soft drink cocktail.": First of all, a woman would say this....Second, what the hell is a shandy? I think we should take her talking privileges away.
3. Male colleagues’s reviews were more bitter. “Like sweet dish soap,” said one. <--- That's more like it. 
4. "Mr. Brito said in brief remarks at the press conference, the point of a big beer company is to offer brands for all tastes, or, as he put it, “you want a portfolio [of drinks] that allows consumers to stay within your franchise.” : In other words they are going to keep flooding the beer market with horrible beer paired with clever advertising to brainwash the masses and give beer a bad name. 
5. "Anheuser hopes [to]... balance out sluggish beer sales in Europe. “Some beverages, like water, and soft drinks,” are doing better than beer." : Easy explanation...people in Europe are smarter than the majority of the people who fall for the AB InBev ads.

Please, save us all form AB InBev. Do your part everyone, support your local craft brewers.

I could stare at this for hours...

Literally, for hours. I have a new goal. Try each beer from every state on here. Oh and also it looks like Idaho needs a microbrewery. Prospective state to start mine? Thank you Colin Skinner for showing me this.

Click on the map so you can actually read it and understand what I am talking about

It doesn't look like I will be getting any Viagra beer

I looked into the pricing on getting a bottle or two of the special beer for the Royal Wedding. Looking like it is going to cost 50 British Pounds or 83 U.S. Dollars for one bottle with shipping and everything included...

Anyone want to donate to the cause???

Arise big Willy!

It is just one week until the Royal Wedding and it is all the buzz on TV, the internet, and apparently even in brewing news. A Scottish brewery, Brew Dog, has made a beer to commemorate the upcoming royal wedding. This isn't your typical celebratory beer though. No, this beer is made with some extra special ingredients to hopefully give the newly weds an extra special wedding night. The beer is called Royal Virility Performance and it is basically laced with some form of herbal/natural viagra, chocolate, and some other weird stuff to get ya in the mood ;-) 

Yup you can always count on the Brits to have a good sense of humor when it comes to sex and beer. I don't really know what I mean by that but they are usually pretty sarcastic about most things. Anyway I think this is hilarious and I applaud Brew Dog for pulling it off. I hear they already sent Prince William a bottle. Let's be honest though...with a shit eating grin like this does he look like he isn't getting any "attention" from Kate in the bedroom?

I am tempted to try it just because it is an IPA, and that is my favorite style of beer. However, I am also curious to see if it works. They say that three bottles equals one viagra. The real question is would one be too drunk at that point for the beer to work its "magic". I mean I have no experience with viagra so I don't know much about it other than it is made for old dudes who are still gettin' lucky. The brew runs about $17 a bottle and there is only a limited amount being made (1000).

Should I get some?

So I changed my mind....

...I decided to syphon my beer into another bucket to let it settle a bit more after getting a lot of the large sediment out. In the process of doing this I may have tried some of it, and I have to say...I think I may have pulled off another great tasting, alcoholic batch of beer (and that was while it was room temperature and flat). This calls for a celebration.

Filtration/Conditioning, Carbonation, Bottling, and of course...Drinking

Tonight! I bottle my latest batch of beer, English Brown Ale. It should be done this weekend. Here are the final steps in the brewing process. I'm about to educate y'all in some home-brewing steps so take notes.

1. Filtration-When I get home I am going to be syphoning the beer out of the current fermentation bucket into another bucket. This transfers all the beer and leaves behind most of the sediment. If I was really going for some real clear beer I would let it sit and settle for a little while longer so even the smaller sediment falls to the bottom of the second bucket (this would be considered the "Conditioning" step for a home-brewer).
2. Carbonation-Then I add some priming sugar to carbonate the beer. If you don't know how this works it is pretty simple. Yeast are living organisms that are put into beer and they consume all the sugars and they turn it into carbon dioxide and alcohol. In a sense, they eat sugar and poop CO2 and alcohol.
3. Bottling- Next, I syphon the beer into bottles and cap all the bottles. I throw them back into the cabinet for a few days while the yeast do their job to carbonate the beer. Once that is done, they go into the fridge to chill...next thing you know, we have nice cold, alcoholic, carbonated beer.
4. Drink- Even if you don't make your own beer, I'm pretty sure you can handle this step.

Cheers!

P.S.- This is kind of what my English Brown Ale will look like...

Good beer and football (soccer) belong together.

It is the way it has been for so many years all around the world but especially in Europe. Three years ago I did a study abroad for a semester in London. And whether you are at the 'football' game watching from the stands or in a pub watching on the television one thing is always true there is a beer in your hand. The reason I became interested in beer was from that time I lived in London and it was an interest in only good beer because that is pretty much all they had to drink. Therefore, I associate good beer with soccer.

This leads me to my next point/piece of news. As most people know, soccer is becoming a more popular sport in America. The MLS is growing and so is the culture around it. Now most of these MLS teams just play in that city's football stadium. The relation of beer to American football is also strong, but it is a different kind of beer. Shitty beer. BMC (Bud, Miller, Coors) are pretty much the only types of beer served at any American football stadium. If you want to know why those are pretty much the only beers available in Football stadiums, ask me to blog about it later because I can go on for days about it. Anyway, as a result of the already in place beer system in these stadiums, BMC is also what is served at MLS games. To me...this does not sit well. Watching a sport like soccer, I feel one should be enjoying a good beer (just like everyone else in the world does). Which is why I am happy to share this recent article titled Redhook Brewery Now Official Craft Beer for Seattle Sounders.

Thank God. Redhook and Qwest/CenturyLink Field management are partnering together to bring Sounders fans good beer to consume while enjoying a soccer match. Some people are saying Redhook was able to get around the red tape of the current beer on tap, because Redhook is owned by InBev (which isn't true, but they do have a distribution relationship with them). However it came about, I don't care because I think it is great. Redhook makes some good brews, ESB, Longhammer IPA, both are expected to be served, and it is beer like this that soccer fans want and deserve.

I'm not surprised and find it fitting that this is happening somewhere in the Northwest. I believe that it was Safeco Field that started this trend about a decade ago. Safeco offers one of the largest selections of craft and micro brews (over 40 types) out of any major league sports venues in America. It makes sense because of the amount of micro and craft breweries in the Pacific Northwest.

There is however a downside to every good thing. In this case, it is probably going to be the price. I recently read and article where the Cleveland Indians' Progressive Field was charging 30 bucks for craft beers. That's not justice. I'd rather pay a fine for smuggling beer into the stadium than pay that obscene amount for a single beer.

Hopefully it will all turn out okay.

A new toy I found...

Scratch my last toy (kegerator) and replace it with this bad boy. It is the 120 Beer Arcade Machine. Holy crap it is anything anyone could ever want. 

1. Video games...it has 200 racing games plus Playstation compatibility. 

2. It has a clutch pedal. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to play an arcade racing game and think you have to actually drive the car like a standard when you choose a manual gear box. However it always turns out there is never a clutch so you let your foot off the gas while you are "shifting" gears and you just start falling back. The set up on this is much more accurate and I'm sure realistic. 

3. There is a Keg in the back of the driver seat...enough said

4. This goes with 3...the tap is just to the right of the steering wheel...again, need I say more.

5. Everyone knows drinking and driving is really bad and nobody should ever even consider it, but this is just a video game...and it is drinking and driving to the extreme. I'm pretty sure if I had this I would accidentally open the tap instead of shift to 3rd gear. In the end, it would be okay because I might lose the race, but I will have a full beer at the finish line.

Obviously this is kind of an intangible thing (considering it costs $6K) at this point in my life, but hey, a man can dream! Plus when I am rich, because of my brewery I am going to start in a few years, I will be able to afford it and then and can provide my own kegs for my private virtual drinking and driving endeavors. Score.

Never actually drink and drive folks. Cheers!

Harpoon Brewery...take 3

So some of you may know that I have been trying to go to the Harpoon Brewery for some time now (basically since I turned 21 in January). I got turned away two previous times because they had sold out for the day. But I was given a free pass for two tour tickets on one of those failed attempts. Well, you know what they say, third time's the charm.

Yesterday I finally went and got there in time to make a tour. Overall, the experience was awesome I couldn't ask for anything better. I got in for free because of my pass I had. Normally the tour is just 5 bucks for a ticket so either way it is well worth it.

Basically you get your ticket head up some stairs to the gift shop/tasting area and then the tour starts out on the brew deck. You go out to the deck show your ID get a tasting glass (which you get to keep) and right away it gets filled with some fresh Harpoon UFO. Next there is an introduction, a crash course in brewing and he explains a few of the more important pieces of equipment (mash, boiler, whirlpool, etc). After the brewing process is explained you go down to the lower level where the fermentation tanks are. By this time everyone is about done with their first beer and so while the fermentation process is being explained they go around and pour some of the beer that has been fermenting for a while so we get a taste of unfinished beer. From there we moved on to the area where filtration and kegging happens. A quick stop at the bottler and finally the warehouse where there is literally wall to wall cases of beer. It's kind of like heaven.

Of course after that part was all finished there was about a half hour left over for tasting. So you go back up to the tasting room and get your drink on. Basically you have free range on everything they have on tap at the time. It was great.

A couple of highlights and fun facts about Harpoon:

Tasting area/Store

Fermentation Tank

Current Keg machine (1keg/min)

Warehouse...aka Heaven

Oyster Stout!

-Oyster Stout: This was basically what sparked my motivation to make it out there this week. They had just finished their 36th offering of the 100 Barrel Series. (Read about it here) But the beer was freakin' delicious. I was so happy I finally got to sample it. **side note: It did not taste like oysters. The idea behind the oysters being added to the beer is that they have minerals in them that bring out certain characteristics and flavors of the stout and really make it pop** I definitely recommend it to all. I walked away with three 22oz. bottles.
-Keg situation: Currently the brewery seems to be doing a bit of expansion. One piece of equipment they recently got, but still have to assemble, is a new keg machine. Right now their current one spits out one new keg about every minute. This equates out to about 500-600 a day. It hasn't been keeping up with their demand so they bought a new toy which will do about a keg every 15 seconds...wow they quadrupled their production of kegs. Sweet mother.
-Because of the Prohibition: many breweries were shut down for a 13 year period when alcohol was made illegal in the US and then after it was made legal again there was a 25 year period where no brewing went on in Massachusetts. Cue Harpoon 1986 brewing licence #001 in MA. The state had reset the numbers and so officially Harpoon was the first production brewery in MA post prohibition.
-Last fun fact: It may seem like a crap ton of beer that they have in their warehouse when you are standing there but the fact is their stock is pretty much an infinitesimal amount in the large scheme of things. Americans drink so much beer that their entire Boston warehouse only accounts for a fraction of a quarter of a percent of the total beer consumed in America daily. And if they were the only available beer to be drank in American the would sell out their entire stock in 3 minutes. Wow. 

There is loads more to talk about but honestly who really wants to listen to me when you can go and pay 5 bucks and have your own memorable experience. It's a great thing to do if you find yourself up early enough on a weekend (tours usually sell out by 2pm but run from 11:30am-5pm every half hour), or if you have someone visiting from out of town and are looking for something fun to do. For more info check out Harpoons website.

Cheers!

Beer of the Night...4/15/11

Tonights beer of the night comes from the Constitution State, Connecticut. It is an IPA style brew from Cottrell Brewing Co. Mystic Bridge IPA. My roommate and his lady friend were in CT a week or two ago and brought back a six pack of this beer.

Description/Review: Mystic Bridge IPA 6% abv. I would classify this as pretty much your standard IPA. Nothing specific really strikes me that much. The hops used add a light, refreshing and sharp taste, but it is still nice and smooth, but not too malty. Basically like I said it is everything you look for in an IPA. I definitely have enjoyed the few I have had but it doesn't stand out as anything too special.

Grade: B

Cottrell Brewing Co. Has an interesting history which is worth reading about here on their website. I find it ironic that Cottrell is apparently the beer of choice in CT and RI and their family settled on a plot of land purchased form the Narragansett Indians back in the 17th century across the river from the current location of the brewery. Of course it is ironic, because Narragansett is another large New England based brewer.

So check out their brew see if you like it. It was a bit mild for my IPA tastes but still an all around solid beer. I think I'm gonna try and find their Old Yankee Ale and give that a whirl next, and if you find yourself in Pawcatuck, CT drop by their brewery!

Cheers!

The WilliamsWarn Personal EasyBake Oven Brewer Thing...

Get ready, this kind of a long one. Prepare yourself to hear me rant and rave about this fine piece of...we'll get there in a minute. What we have here is the WillamsWarn Personal Brewery. It is a piece of machinery that claims to make cold, refreshing, perfectly carbonated beer in just 7 days!

Where do I start?


The WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery from WilliamsWarn on Vimeo.

I call bullshit...

Rule number one...there are no short cuts in life. This rule also applies to beer. This video really irked me as a home-brewer and just as a person with a passion about beer. Anybody who knows anything about beer would never drop $4,500 on this hunk of metal. It reminds me of an over priced easy bake oven for beer. It is so simple a child could use it. Or a complete idiot with a crap ton of money to blow. This product is obviously aimed at that one loaded dude that shops at sharper image and always wants to impress the friends that he doesn't have because nobody likes arrogant rich people who flaunt their money by buying useless shit like this.

Another thing that bothered me. This requires no skill or creativity. I don't know how I feel about their claim that you can be creative and mix and match different styles. I hope everyone realizes that all the guy did was add water, pour in malt extract, and pitch some yeast. HE DIDN'T EVEN MENTION HOPS?!? WHAAAAT?

But a thing that really ticked me off was that it was just so stupidly over priced. I could buy two of those all-grain brewing systems that I posted about the other day for the price of one WilliamsWarn easybake brewery. The quality of the beer would be compared to the big three (no I'm not talking about #5, #20, and #34) but BMC (Bud, Miller, and Coors). It would be like drinking river water (especially with no hops).

A few other things that bugged me:
1) What is up with that dude's apron...seriously man?
2) Why does the narrator sounds like Crocodile Dundee or the dude from Fosters commercials.
3) Comparing their "gourmet ingredients" to anything I can get at my home-brew store is like comparing Top Ramen to Pollo Arrabiata.

At the end of the day the people who are going to buy this thing lack creativity or any form of a brain. However, I will still sleep soundly knowing that my beer will taste good and the beer that comes out of this thing will (in the words of our friends from Monty Python) "be like having sex in a canoe. It's f**king close to water"

This is going in my apartment next year...

My roommates and I have already discussed the idea of having a bar in our apartment next year because we have basically an extra room with quite a lot of space. So in order to have a real bar I need this...

Yup. It's only gonna cost me bout $500 but I know that will pay for itself with all the "$5 and a cup" parties we can have next year. 

I also want to add I am pretty sure I convinced my dad to buy one today for our kitchen which we are just finishing up a remodel on. I mean mom gets her 48" gas range, two refrigerators, a warming drawer, two dishwashers, and brand new calcutta gold marble countertops...I think dad could treat himself to a beer tap. It only makes sense, right?

If you want your own keg system check it here

Excuse me sir...there is an Oyster in my beer!

Prepare yourself for what you are about to hear if you are not much of an exotic beer drinker.

Oyster Beer....or as they would say in Boston...Oystah Beeya.

"The 36th offering from the Harpoon 100 Barrel Series is Island Creek Oyster Stout, brewed by Harpoon's Bill Leahy. The original version of this beer was brewed in the winter of 2010. 

The idea for the Harpoon 100 Barrel Series Island Creek Oyster Stout came after years of enjoying locally harvested oysters over freshly brewed pints of beer with our friends from Island Creek. Stouts have long been paired with oysters, though seldom brewed with them. This is our take on the age-old tradition."

Yup that's right, our friends over at Harpoon have been cooking this up since this past winter as part of their 100 Barrel Series. It is an Oyster Stout brewed with oysters from Island Creek Oyster Farms up in Duxbury, MA.

Now the reason I say I wish I were in Vermont is because Harpoon is having an exclusive tasting tonight at their Windsor, VT brewery from 6:00-8:00pm. As strange as it may sound to some people, I really want to try this beer. I don't even really care much for oysters but I am always looking to try new beers, and this sounds like something right up my alley.

With all that being said. I am thinking of going to the Boston Harpoon Brewery this weekend for a brewery tour (and to hopefully snag some oyster beer) and I happen to have a free pass for two people...and if you are of age you can drink to your hearts content at the end of the tour. So comment on this post to have the opportunity of joining me on my quest this weekend. Just give me some of your thoughts on the Oyster Beer and then tell me why you wanna come along this weekend. And one lucky person can come along FOR FREEEE.

Cheers.

American Craft Beer Fest! June 3&4th Boston, MA

So I mentioned in a previous blog that I have a new home-brewing system on my mind but another thing that is occupying my mind is the American Craft Beer Fest. It is less than 2 months away. That's right fellow beer lovers, over 100 brewers being represented and over 400 beers to try! I can't wait for it I am saving money right now so I can get into all 3 sessions. Tickets are a bit expensive ($45 bucks per session) but I think they are definitely worth it for anyone who even has the smallest interest in beer, or learning more about beer. 

Some of my goals for the ACBF are to try as many beers as possible. Meet and pick the brains of every brewer I see. And lastly, just absorb as much knowledge as possible. You all can bet your bottom dollar that I will be blogging the crap out of the festival so even if you dont make it...you can throw a few back sitting at your computer following along with the action on here.

ACBF is being brought to you all by BeerAvocate and Harpoon Brewery. The event is taking place June 3&4 2011 in  Boston, MA at the Seaport World Trade Center

     

I want this, I have to have it.

I posted this last week on my facebook, but ever since I discovered this amazing Small Production Home-Brewing System it is all I can think about. Basically, it is a small production brewing system that allows you to make all grain beers with all the tubing and junk already hooked up. I already have written a couple ideas/recipes for all grain beer but making it in the home-brewing equipment I currently own would be challenging. All I need is $2,000 and I could probably start my brewery... obviously on a very small scale, but some beer is better than no beer, right?

I think I'm in love...any investors out there?

J. Wilson is my new hero...

This guy is hardcore and I think I know what I am giving up for Lent next year...everything except beer

Sunday, Brewday

Home-brewing is a hobby that came to fruition back in the days of the prohibition. Alcohol was made illegal so instead of submitting to the constitution and giving up on beer altogether as a nation, America became innovative. It was probably one of the best things that could have ever happened to beer. It allowed people to be creative and think of new ways to make something that was already good into something great.

My home-brewing dates back to my prohibition days (circa a couple of months before I turned 21). I started brewing because I have a passion for beer, I understood how it was made, and I just wanted to see if I could do it. So from now on every time I make a new batch I will give updates throughout the brew process...

Brewing Day (4/10/2011)
Beer Style: English Brown Ale
Character: Malty and sweet mouthfeel with a mild hoppy flavoring
OG: 1.045

Highlight of the day: Hitting the OG first try and not having to make corrections
Challenge of the day:MacGyver-ing a way to plug my drain for the ice bath to cool the wort

Cheers,
Nomad Nick

Beer of the Night...4/9/2011

Tonight's beer of the night comes all the way from Deleware! It is the current seasonal beer from Dogfish Head (one of my favorite breweries)...Aprihop. I have had this brew a couple of times now and each time it keeps growing on me.

Description: Aprihop 7% abv. A lighter IPA beer brewed with Apricots. The combination gives a nice hoppy and fruity taste which is extremely refreshing, especially on the first real day of spring.

Grade: A-

This brew comes in a four pack and is only available until the end of May so make your way to your local packy and grab a case or two and cheers to the beginning of nice weather, baseball, and the end of the school year.

Also make sure to check out the Dogfish Head's website and see their beer schedule for upcoming seasonals and beers they have available all year long.

Cheers,
Nomad Nick

What the tap?!? An introduction...

First of all, I am not a writer...at least I don't consider myself passionate about it, but one thing I am passionate about is beer. I mean who isn't right? I believe it was our friend on the one-hundred dollar bill, Ben Franklin, who once said, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Well judging by that quote, even if he never gave us electricity, it is obvious he was an intelligent man. All I'm saying is beer is great. Beer is the second oldest beverage in the world, next to water...but water f@#king cheated because it is a natural substance created by two of the most abundant atoms on plant earth. However, without water we couldn't have beer so I guess it worked out. ***By the way, I should mention I am a biology major in school (meaning im a slight nerd), I brew beer out of my apartment in Boston (meaning I'm awesome and cool), and one day I will own my own craft brewery (which means I will be doing something I love for the rest of my life).***

So you may be asking, What do I intend to do with this beerlog? Well it is simple... 1. Share my knowledge of beer (i.e. reviews, brewing tips, photos, education and whatever else I feel is fit to share!) 2. Gain a following of beer lovers/enthusiasts that want to share their knowledge with me. I consider myself to be a great listener so please comment on my blog! and 3. Have fun! I think this is the most important thing, because no matter how corny it may sound, beer is fun! It is almost always essential to the social aspect of any culture (going back to even ancient Egypt) and it should be celebrated, shared, savored, and loved. Until next time...

Drink up,

Nomad Nick