THE AMERICAN BREWPUB
WARNING: This post is about brewpubs and homebrewing, and has nothing to do with cheese! I brew with two guys from my wife’s over sized Chicago family. They drew me back into homebrewing a year ago after I had lapsed into a pathetic once- or twice-a-year frequency. Last week we took a day off and drove [...]
IT’S, IT’S … ALIVE!!
It was a great weekend for beer in Chicago, even if you only went to one event, as I did. Of course, that event would have to have been the Day of the Living Ales/Night of the Living Ales, presented by the Chicago Beer Society. More than 500 enthusiasts attended the two sessions to sample [...]
THAT STINKS
Remember that Winnimere cheese I picked up back at the end of February? Well, it was put to good use last Friday. I ended up pulling together a panel at The Map Room to taste a group of four washed rind cheeses with a few different types of beers. The group included the MR’s own [...]
