by Jeff Maisey | May 14, 2022 | Brew News, News
(Yeast is an essential ingredient to create unique flavors in beer. Photo courtesy of Jasper Yeast.) By David Hoff As winter starts giving away to spring, the brewers at Pen Druid get ready to make beer the old-fashioned way. By old fashion, they mean centuries, not...
by Jeff Maisey | May 14, 2022 | Brew News, News
(Chris Drummond of World’s Okayest Trivia. Photo credit Logan Martin.) By Jefferson Evans & Chuck Triplett So it struck Chris Drummond one day while running The Art of Music memorabilia store at The Mirage casino in Las Vegas that he knows a whole lot of...
by Jeff Maisey | May 14, 2022 | Beer, Brew News, News
By Jeff Maisey Beer was such an essential ingredient to colonial life, Thomas Jefferson designed spaces for brewing and storing home-brew on the grounds of Monticello. Much has been written on the topic, and now some 210 years after Jefferson’s first batch was...
by Jeff Maisey | May 14, 2022 | Beer, Brew News, News
(Attractive grounds area of Wild Wolf will continue to lure fans when Three Notch’d Brewing takes over the space.) By Jeff Maisey In early 2022, Mary Wolf, founder of Wild Wolf Brewing Company on Nelson County’s famed Route 151, acknowledged she was selling the...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 17, 2021 | Brew News, News
(The Virginia Beer Company’s Terminally Pretty won second place in the overall Best in Show category) The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild (VCBG) announced the 2021 Virginia Craft Beer Cup winners on Monday, August 16 at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery’s West Creek...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 12, 2021 | Brew News, News
(The recently opened Camp Trapezium maintains elements of an 1890 icehouse. Photo by Annie Tobey.) By Annie Tobey Beer plays the starring role at a brewery, and taprooms are designed to enhance the experience. In designing the space, brewery owners may consider...
