The first beer I tasted at the Vail Cascade Resort, home of the Big Beers Festival, was in the outdoor hot tub, and the guy who gave me it to me, Greg Geiger of Littleton, Co, ended up winning Best of Show in the homebrew contest for his Imperial Stout.
In case you missed it, late last year there was a rather sizable set-to in the world of beer, particularly the portion of it that resides on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
By the time you are reading this a Super Bowl Champion is about to be crowned, or already has, and the football season is be over. Now it’s time to pick a Super Bowl of Chili champ — three opponents all very different in many ways except one, they are all cooked with beer.
Brussels has a new beer bar, and it’s I great one, I hear. Andy, Jean,
and Nassim, who took over the original Moeder Lambic in the Ixelles area of
Brussels in 2006, opened their second location, called Moeder Lambic Fontainas,
on Oct. 30.
One fateful day in 1991 I took a tour of the New England brewery in
Norwalk, CT. The guide was brewer Phil Markowski, who with Ron Page formed the
2-man brewing team.
Bars have already started reserving breweries for Beer Week, which moves
from March to June in 2010 — so don’t slack. I got the good word from Joe Six
Pack that there will be a Collaboration Beer for PBW 2010.
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