Event Plug: Heavy Seas Bacon and Beer Fest

It’s not often that I pull the “come to this event or you’re dead to me” card but this is a truly, truly wondrous event for celebrating a truly wondrous beer at the Clipper City Brewery: It’s a brewery tour It’s on Talk Like a Pirate Day It’s “all you care to sample” BEER AND […]

The Boot makes a triumphant return

Over the years …and years and years of my long career as an alcohol enthusiast, there are a few traditions and that I have always embraced at a few of my local favorite pour houses. Karaoke, house shots, pole dancing, whatever the case may be; one of my all-time favorites at Captain Larry’s was always […]

Google Earth Project – Top 100 Coldest Beers in Baltimore (2007)

As promised, I have begun mapping City Paper’s top 100 coldest beers lists, and will be presenting them year by year in the Google Earth Projects page. Once all of them have been completed they will be available as a whole set, or individual years for viewing. Top 100 Coldest Beers in Baltimore – 2007 […]

The 5th Annual Max’s Belgian Beer Fest Roundup

When I first read of the (then) upcoming Belgian Beer Fest at Max’s Taphouse a few months ago, I was pretty much instantly excited. The image of a beer festival with Belgian beers the likes of which I had never heard of, much less seen got my imagination flowing. One of the bartenders I know […]

*BARF*…I mean, let me try that

Whilst engaged in an online discussion regarding gross soft drinks, the usual suspects of seasonal Mountain Dew flavors versus Mr. Pibb XTREME were thrown around, until someone dropped a big, fat, curious bombshell: Yes friends, if your eyes are working properly you are seeing the same thing that I did; the unholy union of Budweiser […]