Month: July 2013

This spring the Brewers Association announced that the number of breweries/brewpubs open in the United States had broken the 2500 barrier. That’s over 1000 new breweries in the last six years, and there are more to come....

Just in case you missed it, Frederick is one of the nominees in Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine’s to be named best beer city in the Blue Ridge. There’s some stiff competition on the list – not the least of which...

It has been a busy week. Busier than I expected it would be. And to compound things…or alleviate, depending on how you look at it, I spent last night, when I would normally be composing my weekly column, at the Ian...

In a hole in the ground there lived a hoppit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hoppit-hole, and...

Those of you who have been following Frederick Beer Week from the beginning know that part of our mission is to highlight the connection between beer and the farm – identify the beverage as an agricultural product. It is...