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I've said this before: the fears of a craft beer bubble bursting have been greatly overstated. Many people are predicting the bubble bursting within the next year, and many breweries shutting down because the market just can't handle the industry's unbridled growth....

Sorry it's been a couple weeks since the last column. We have entered a very busy time for the Frederick Beer Week board. We are in that stretch when so much of the work that makes FBW happen gets done. This is when the sponsors and participants come on board, events...

There's not a whole hell of a lot that's considered a sin in craft brewing. Many breweries like to push the limits, adding a variety of ingredients that have traditionally not been used in ales and lagers: mint, chipolte peppers, ghost peppers, bacon, maple syrup. The...

Same as the old boss... Nah, not really trying to channel The Who, but I do want to talk a bit about is our local growth. What it really means, and where Frederick is going. And Frederick is, in my humble opinion, going the way of Asheville, Portland, Denver, and many...

With all due respect to Uncle Walt, Disney is not, in fact, the happiest place on Earth. Sure, look at the smiling, laughing faces of the children...until they're in that two-hour wait for the "It's A Small World Ride." Then look at the faces of the parents of the...

When you think about it, beer is kind of magical. It's not like whiskey, or vodka, which requires a distillery, or wine making, which...well, don't get me started. You can make beer in your house and have drinkable beer in two weeks. Two. Freakin'. Weeks. And here's...

Sorry the column is late. Let's call it a 12-hour snow delay. Yup. I know. You're sick of the winter weather. And you know what? In six months we'll all be sick of 95 degrees with 90 percent humidity, because, well, summer here sucks too. Don't get me wrong. I'm tired...

On Saturday I took the Frederick Beer Week show on the road. Specifically, to the Tysons Corner Whole Foods first ever Craft Beer Festival. I love beer festivals. That's not to say all of them are good, but beerfests give me the opportunity to do several things I love...

So, in this is edition of The Beer Guy, I've decided to take on something truly controversial...me. Okay, so I admit, I am given to a bit of hyperbole. That said, the myth of the Beer Guy holds that I arrived in town years ago from points unknown on a rainy night,...