Feb 26 2012

Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Chris LaPierre Brewer, Maple Shade

A step away from beer

Our last city in Belgium was Ghent, which we really enjoyed. In a lot of ways it had the best parts of both Brussels and Brugge. Like Brugge it had all of the medieval architecture, canals and church spires, but all with way fewer tourists. I know, I know, we’re tourists. But Ghent just felt [...]


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CJeanPlate

Feb 22 2012

Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Chris LaPierre Brewer, Maple Shade

And on my “free time”…

The main purpose of my trip was to brew the batch at DuPont. As you can imagine though, there’s plenty of stuff going on on the side. The lass and I took one side trip to visit our friend Yvan at De La Sienne, then of course there’s just bumming around with Tom Peters. Tom [...]


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Belgium hotel

Feb 21 2012

Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Chris LaPierre Brewer, Maple Shade

The reason for this trip!

This morning certainly came early. We had dinner last night (sweetbreads, Iberian ham, and of course mussels) then a little nightcap of Rochefort 6 (thought that was prudent) before coming home to get my London blog post up. That left me with less than three hours of sleep before getting on the bus for DuPont. [...]


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DuPont Brewer

Feb 20 2012

Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Chris LaPierre Brewer, Maple Shade

London, Europe 101

I got some flack for not being adventurous enough when we decided to do London as one of our side cities on this trip. I’ve been to London four times and I’ve never been to Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic etc. Something told me I should have checked off another one of the “beer nations” [...]


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Chris L Featured Photo 2

Feb 17 2012

Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Chris LaPierre Brewer, Maple Shade

And so we begin…. Max’s at 11:00 am

Every year since we’ve been together the Beer Lass and I have spent our Valentine’s weekend in Baltimore for Max’s 72 Hour Belgian Beer Fest. (How many guys can get away with that?!) When I won the trip to Belgium her first reaction was “Oh no, we’ll miss Max’s”. I pointed out that we could [...]


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Feb 16 2012

Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Chris LaPierre Brewer, Maple Shade

It was only a matter of time…

I knew someone would make one of these for brewers sooner or later… Must admit, its not inaccurate! Cheers, Chris


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What I Really Do

Feb 15 2012

Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Chris LaPierre Brewer, Maple Shade

Much better than a planter!

Every year before the Barrels, Bourbon & Bugs event I cut up the barrels after I empty them and make planters out of them, then I put them out front for people to take home. This year, for some reason I put a whole one out there. Every now and then someone has a different [...]


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Iron Hill Brewery

Feb 10 2012

Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Chris LaPierre Brewer, Maple Shade

Guest Brewer Becomes Guest Blogger

Hopefully you’ve all been enjoying the Kamikaze IPA over the past few days.  There are two things about that beer you probably don’t know.   A. That beer was guest brewed by two of our managers.  (It’s a requirement at Iron Hill that all of our managers spend a day brewing before they officially earn their stripes).  And B. [...]


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Steven Lesi Mash In

Feb 08 2012

Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Chris LaPierre Brewer, Maple Shade

Just a week away!

  Wow, this trip to Belgium has really snuck up on me, it’s exactly one week away! I mean I’ve been planning the whole time; bought the plane and train tickets, found the passport, made the hotel reservations, done lots of research etc, but man, one week! We’re actually flying out of BWI instead of [...]


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brugge-belgium

Feb 03 2012

Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Iron Hill Brewery Maple Shade Chris LaPierre Brewer, Maple Shade

Luca Brasi Returns

I have to tell you, when we first brewed Luca Brasi (coffee stout) I never planned to do it again.  I thought of the Iron Brewer  winners as one-offs, never to be repeated.  But so many people kept asking me and the staff when we were going to bring it back, that I had to make it [...]


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