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Home Brewing Again

2010-05-14T13:25:00.000-07:00

Started home brewing again. The beer on the left is a Belgian Golden Ale and the one on the right is an Orval Clone. Well, an ESB dry hopped with Styrian Golding and contaminated with Brettanomyces, which sounds like Orval to me.

2010-03-03T05:26:00.000-08:00

Just a portion of the brewing library here at "The Guild". Some nice old books among the newer texts. Of course I've read them all :-)

Vermont Beers

2010-01-27T08:21:00.000-08:00

Vermont Beers arranged for a photoshoot

Pedal powered bar

2009-09-02T14:00:00.000-07:00

Sierra Nevada's pedal powered bar

Paulaner Brewery Capetown

2009-05-10T08:53:00.000-07:00

Beer Laws

2009-02-13T11:06:00.000-08:00

Beer cart on the street one Saturday in September in Koln (Cologne)

View from the hop house

2009-01-20T05:40:00.000-08:00

How would you like to live somewhere where this is the view from your kitchen window?
Wolnzacher in Hallertau.

Brewers House in Brussels

2009-01-13T07:53:00.000-08:00

In the center of Brussels this magnificent building appears to be some kind of Brewer's guild HQ. Maison des Brasseurs We've got a ways to go

Bush

2008-12-07T16:22:00.000-08:00

The brewhouse at the Dubuisson brewery, brewers of Bush beer. The beer is called Scaldis in the USA.

Hop Harvest in Popperinge

2008-11-03T11:42:00.000-08:00

Toasting the hop harvest with the farmer in a hop field. September 2008. The beer?
Westvleteren 12 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cantillon

2008-10-03T12:48:00.001-07:00

While at the Cantillon brewery in Brussels, a famous lambic and gueze producer, I was lucky to get in on a sampling of a gueze from 1983. Thats 25 yrs old folks. It was incredible. It smelled like a stable (with lambics that's a good thing)

Rodenbach

2008-10-03T12:42:00.000-07:00

About a month ago I visited Rodenbach Brewery in Roeselare Belgium. The Grand Cru is aged 3 yrs in wooden tuns. This beer is blended to produce the Rodenbach regular beer but left unblended as Grand Cru. Uniquely sour with a cherry flavor despite there being no cherries used in its production. The tour of the brewery was in Dutch so I only discerned a little of the story but the sample at the end was fabulous.

Patriotism

2008-07-29T14:22:00.001-07:00

A better kind of patriotism.

George Will

2008-07-10T10:54:00.000-07:00

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/the_essential_beer.html

Great picture

2008-05-08T10:12:00.000-07:00

Great photograph whatever your politics.

Video

2007-12-12T05:02:00.000-08:00

New video for the web and for the dvd's

Real Ale Cellarmanship

2007-11-19T13:10:00.000-08:00

Real Ale advice

We got da fonk

2007-10-30T12:20:00.000-07:00

Our barrel aged chocolate, raspberry sour brown drew gasps of appreciation (or violent wretching) from the crowd at the Beer Advocate "Night of the Funk" beer festival Friday. We were also ashamed we didn't add cherries to it instead of raspberries so we could call it Otter Kriek. To quote a line from one of my favorite movies Spinal Tap, "its a fine line between clever and stupid."

Billy Bragg

2007-10-23T17:01:00.000-07:00

Billy Bragg

Christine and I went to NYC last weekend to see this guy again. We re-established our leftist credentials in one fell swoop. Now we can go back to listening to NPR, driving our volvo, eating French cheese and sipping chardonnay with the rest of the liberal elite Vermonters

Lobethal Bierhaus

2007-10-17T17:26:00.000-07:00

Lobethal Bierhaus
is owned and operated by Guild Grads Phil and Alistair

Denise and Arne

2007-10-17T17:18:00.001-07:00

Marin County Sweeps the Great American Beer Festival!

Marin Brewing Company wins four golds and Moylan’s brewery & restaurant wins two golds and one silver!

marin county, ca – The sun was shining on a section of Marin County on Saturday, October 13^th, as Marin Brewing Company of Larkspur, CA and Moylan’s Brewery and Restaurant of Novato, CA were awarded a record six gold medals and one silver medal at the 26^th Great American Beer Festival Competition, the largest national beer competition that recognizes the most outstanding beer produced in the United States today. The top three winners in each of the competition’s 75 different beer style categories were announced at the Great American Beer Festival Awards Ceremony in Denver, Colorado. The winning beers were judged and selected by an international panel of brewing experts from an impressive portfolio of 2,832 entries received from 474 U.S. breweries. More than 1,500 breweries were invited to compete in the prestigious annual event.

Brewmaster Arne Johnson of Marin Brewing Company had a banner year, with four of his ten entries awarded a gold medal in their individual categories. Tiburon Blonde was awarded gold in the Belgian and French-style Ale category, the Triple Dispsea Belgian-Style Ale took top honors in the Belgian Style Abbey Ale category, the Point Reyes Porter took gold in the Robust Porter category and the Star Brew Triple Wheat walked away as the winner in the American-Style Wheat Wine Ale category.

Brewmaster Denise Jones of Moylan’s Brewery and Restaurant also counts this year as a personal best in Denver, with Moylan’s Dragoons Dry Irish Stout taking top honors in the Classic Irish Style Dry Stout category. The Hopsickle Imperial IPA and the Moylander Double IPA took gold and silver respectively in the Imperial or Double India Pale Ale category. This is a monumental triumph for Moylan’s, as 72 beers from all over the country were entered, and the Novato establishment alone was awarded first and second place honors.

Owner Brendan Moylan is elated with the success his brewmasters have achieved. In the 26 year history of the competition, few brewpub proprietors rarely experience the good fortune of taking home six gold medals and one silver. He states, “Our success at GABF this year was phenomenal. Both Brewmasters and their crews worked incredibly hard to bring home those medals. Marin County can rest assured knowing it was well represented at the 2007 competition. Come on in to one or both of the pubs and taste one of seven medal winning ales!”

For more information on Marin Brewing Company and Moylan’s Brewery and Restaurant, Brendan Moylan or either Brewmaster and their award winning ales, please visit www.marinbrewing.com and www.moylans.com. For more Great American Beer Festival Competition information and 2007 winners list, visit www.GreatAmericanBeerFestival.com.

The Great American Beer Festival has been held every year since 1982 and is presented by the Brewers Association not-for-profit educational, trade association for craft brewers. Visit the website: www.beertown.org to learn more. The Brewers Association also hosts the bi-annual World Beer Cup and is based in Boulder, Colo., U.S.A.

Brewers Association Great American Beer Festival

2007-10-17T09:50:00.000-07:00

Brewers Association Great American Beer Festival

Pelican Pub & Brewery Wins 3 medals at the 2007 GABF

2007-10-17T05:44:00.000-07:00

Pelican Pub & Brewery Wins 3 medals at the 2007 GABF

GABF

2007-10-16T18:10:00.000-07:00

Tradition has it that we spend the interval between sessions on saturday at The Samba Room. We generally have a medal or two with us and the skirt steak and mojitos go down easy. In this picture you will find some instructors, some students, and some friends

Surly Brewing Company -- Minnesota, USA

2007-10-16T08:56:00.000-07:00

Surly Brewing Company -- Minnesota, USA

Gold Medal
Congrats Omar
More to follow

I'll be here

2007-10-03T11:29:00.000-07:00

I'll be representin' Otter Creek/Wolavers at this event. Many of you may already know Todd a Guild Grad from 2005. We have been aging a 50 gallon barrel of Wolavers Brown for 18 months. We added some cocoa powder and some Scottish Wee Heavy to it before deliberately spoiling it with lactobacillus, pediococcus and brettanomyces. Right now it tastes like chocolate nail polish, but when we blend it with fresh brown ale it is sublime

Beer vs Wine

2007-09-29T07:05:00.000-07:00

Check out Charlie Bamforth and a wine guy going at it
http://frontiers.ucdavis.edu/8a.html

National Toast to Michael Jackson

2007-09-27T10:27:00.000-07:00

Click on the link for more info. I'll be raising a to the legend myself. Beer advocate

Local Brewers in Vermont, Greg Noonan will be hosting a toast Sunday at 9 pm

Updated Sites

2007-09-26T13:26:00.000-07:00

Inspired by David to avail myself of all the cool new web tools I've begun updating both sites more regularly. The public site has a list of all the lecturers who taught with us this summer and a couple of links to some photographs of the students from the last couple of classes. The alumni site (get your passwords) is up and running and there are some germs of discussions breaking out.

Alumni Board is live

2007-09-21T09:02:00.001-07:00

The board is up and working. Yeah.
www.masterbrewer.com
email us for the passwords if you are an alumnus of the American Brewers Guild

Sorry for the delay

2007-09-17T06:24:00.000-07:00

Well I'm currently working through the internet hell that is known as "dealing with network solutions". The phalanx of well educated but poorly paid workers in Bangladesh are currently working to solve my problem. Perhaps this week.

New Alumni site

2007-09-10T09:19:00.000-07:00

The new alumni site should be active today or tomorrow. Thankyou Ron for all of your tremendous effort

New Alumni Site almost ready

2007-09-04T18:02:00.000-07:00

Alumni Ron Cotti is putting the finishing touches to the new look alumni site. It will have a message board and job board and will eventually have a beer wiki in operation. The worlds greatest brewing knowledge database created by guild alums. Wow

Michael Jackson Passes

2007-08-31T04:37:00.000-07:00

I'm going to take today just to sit and contemplate the passing of a legend.
Michael Jackson Testimonials

Downtime after class ends

2007-08-30T13:44:00.000-07:00

The week after the Summer Residential Class ended Christine and I headed to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for a well earned vacation. We've been catching up on trashy reading material and rediscovering the virtues of flavorless American beer in cans. Back to work on Tuesday at the ABG and Otter Creek.