I realized after writing this whole thing, I’m doing the beer journalist stuff. I’m writing up the notes of a trip I took thinking that you’re interested in hearing about it, as in getting a feel for something. You know, photos and facts with some picture painting tossed in. To be quite honest, that could... View Article
The next day I returned to the Cyclorama for round two of the Alstrom Three Throw a Party! However, this time I brought a bug. Somehow, during the previous evening with my nose stuck in all those different barrel-aged beers, I’d managed to catch some version of a cold or flu. (Little did I know... View Article
I’ve got a great deal with the best lawyer in the Southeast. Fred Hutchison specializes in the sort of work we need to grow our business, helping get us to where we are today. He’s been there helping us with more than one sticky wicket. Aside from the usual compensation, what the good folks at... View Article
Yes, it has been a few weeks since the Night of the Barrels and the Extreme Beer Festival, but I’m not the world’s fastest writer (or thinker for that matter)—hey, I’m still trying to run a magazine and a few festivals. But regardless, I need to get up to speed. (Thank you Stan, Steve, Jay,... View Article
Awhile ago, on a trip to Baltimore with a bunch of city leaders, I was outed as a beer guy. After all of the different meetings about how Baltimore got so cool, the bunch of us headed to Fells Point looking for a fun evening. As you might guess I don’t particularly fit into the... View Article
The blog-o-sphere is abuzz with a new film on beer. (Barley Vine, Beer Philosopher, Brookstone, My Beer Pix, etc.) Beer hasn’t fared very well in American made moves, fiction or not, which will all change in April thanks to Anat Baron and her movie titled “Beer Wars.” Beer Wars looks at the emergence of American craft brewers and... View Article
Stan Hieronymous visited for a couple days with his wife, and colleague, Daria Labinsky, and the precocious nearly teenage daughter Sierra. (A fun moment, eavesdropping on Sierra and my daughter Anne kavetching about being the children of beer people; “So, like are you so completely sick of breweries, yet, or what!”) Of the many conversations... View Article
This will be different. Instead of acting like a writer and laboring over a piece with various staff members looking over my shoulder to make sure I’m not a complete idiot, I want to tell you about this cool beer I just had, that would be 3:00 p.m. EST. Like I said recently, nice life... View Article
We run our business a little differently, something you can do if you publish a magazine about beer and put on events about beer. We have two staff meetings a week — Monday morning sets the week up and Friday afternoon closes it, which we do every week at Tyler’s Taproom, Durham’s largest multitap bar. Nearly... View Article
