The concept of beer trading is an interesting one. While there are many online websites that discuss the how-to’s and enable trading, I want to spend a few minutes discussing the emotions of a trade. The basic premise to trading is to use your inventory to acquire beers that you otherwise couldn’t get, either becauseContinue reading “Trading Stouts”
Tag Archives: Stout
Brewpublik
Brewpublik is a new business venture that has entered the Raleigh market within the past few months. They cut their teeth in Charlotte, then have expanded into Raleigh. Brewpublik provides a customized craft beer delivery service based on a taste profile you create on their website. Based on your profile, they then select craft beersContinue reading “Brewpublik”
Aging and Reviewing Stouts
This past week I was given the opportunity to contribute to the BrewStuds blog (wearebrewstuds.com) to discuss the topic of aging and cellaring beers….with a heavy emphasis on Stouts! Mark from Digital Third Coast marketing developed an infographic about Aging and Cellaring beers and I wrote a blog post about aging Stouts that accompanied theContinue reading “Aging and Reviewing Stouts”
NC Beer Month and the KBS Quest
April has been selected as North Carolina Beer Month and all of the local bottleshops and breweries have special events to highlight local North Carolina beers. My contribution to NC Beer Month for this week is tasting and reviewing Wicked Weed’s Dark Age and tasting Trophy Brewing’s El Hombre. Additionally, I was on the prowlContinue reading “NC Beer Month and the KBS Quest”
Some Recent Reviews
I’ve been busy lately, but not too busy to be tasting and reviewing some recent releases and getting re-acquainted with some old friends. See my Recent Reviews page for my reviews, my observations, and my ratings, but as a preview, here are a few of my recent tastings: I try and review at leastContinue reading “Some Recent Reviews”
A CANniversary!
Today is National Beer Can Appreciation Day. Apparently canned beer was born on this day in 1935 in Richmond, Virginia (so says Wikipedia). So the beer can is 81 years old today. I celebrated by drinking a stout in a can. I enjoyed a Silverback Stout from The Unknown Brewing Company in Charlotte, NC. YouContinue reading “A CANniversary!”
Weekend Tastings
December 27, 2015 This long holiday weekend was quite enjoyable. Aside from celebrating Christmas with family, I was able to sample a couple of new stouts as well as visit some old “friends”. I was able to bookend Terrapin’s Wake-n-Bake and Aviator’s Night Jump with a couple of Saturday morning Guinness stouts that wereContinue reading “Weekend Tastings”
The Holiday Season!
Since this is the Holiday season, it must also be Stout season. There is at least one new stout release every single day and while it seems like a lot right now, it helps when the dog days of IPA (I mean summer) are here and you have stocked up on stouts now! Tonight IContinue reading “The Holiday Season!”
The Busy Season
October 19, 2015 Today’s post will be rather brief. This is becoming the busy season for Stout releases. We’ve just seen the annual release of Founder’s Breakfast Stout and many of the local breweries are hopping on the Stout release train – Lonerider with “Pistols at Dawn”, Fullsteam with IGOR, Son of IGOR, and SeñorContinue reading “The Busy Season”
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