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 [...]
Feb 22 | 2012
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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Feb 21 | 2012
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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Feb 20 | 2012
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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Feb 17 | 2012
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
I knew someone would make one of these for brewers sooner or later… Must admit, its not inaccurate! Cheers, Chris
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Feb 15 | 2012
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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Feb 10 | 2012
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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Feb 08 | 2012
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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Feb 03 | 2012
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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Saturday, May 19th, 2012
Media – Brandywine Valley Craft Brewers' Festival
1–5 pm. $45 Tickets sell out fast! 25 Local Breweries with Live Music all day...Rain or shine. Online $45 | $50 Door | $5 Designated Driver.
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Maple Shade – Spring Beer Dinner
7–9 pm. Five courses featuring fresh spring flavors. $65 per person including gratuity | Reservations Required 856 273.0300
- Barley Legal Homebrewers hosting a preliminary round of the Philly Beer Geek competition at Iron Hill this Mon at 7 pm http://t.co/WyjC37ei 1 day ago
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