VIDEO – This video is just a quick look at another fun filled Kate the Great day at Portsmouth Brewery in Portsmouth New Hampshire (check out last year’s adventure here). While the bottles were gone by 5:30am, the taps were flowing with what brewmaster Tod Mot called “his best work ever”.
We love “beer day’s” [...]

VIDEO – Our trip to Portland had to include a visit to the legendary Shipyard Brewing Company. What we didn’t expect was to be offered the opportunity to chat with founder and Master Brewer Alan Pugsley.
Beyond Shipyard, Alan has been instrumental in the building of many breweries around the globe and introducing [...]

During our recent trip to Portland, we stopped in at D.L. Geary Brewery and got to talk to David Geary about his beers and Geary’s brewery. Geary’s brews traditional styles and focuses on session beers, including their Pale Ale and Hampshire Ale. However, recently they have dabbled a bit in more “experimental” styles, [...]

It’s winter in Vermont, which means some quiet weekdays at our Inn. Perfect time of year for another road trip – and this time we head to Portland Maine for a week of awesome beer adventures.
We start our trip at the Great Lost Bear after hearing about it from some of you [...]

In this weeks episode I head down to the ice behind our Vermont inn for some early morning ice fishing with my friend Doug (Amy was stuck inside making breakfast for the guests). Ice fishing starts early, and pretty much requires beer – so the question begged, what is the perfect ice fishing beer. [...]

Welcome to another in our Women and Beer videos series.  Meet Mariah Calagione, wife of Sam Calagione, from Dogfish Head Brewery.    Filming took place at the Sierra Grille in Northampton, MA at their Night Before the Night Before Christmas – Dogfish Head Vintage Beer Dinner.  Mariah talks to us about her role with Dogfish [...]

VIDEO – During a recent trip up to American Flatbread in Burlington Vermont we got to meet Allagash Brewery owner and brewmaster Rob Tod. Rob hosts an annual beer night at American Flatbread and brought a host of great Allagash brews this year, including a cask of Four, a log of Bi-Curieux and [...]

VIDEO – In this episode Tim and I attempt to decipher the difference between a Hefeweizen and a Witbier.  In our “Is Blue Moon Beer?” episode Tim dropped the ball and called Blue Moon a Hefeweizen.  (Thanks to Scott Jones on facebook and Chad9976 on YouTube for the catch). This prompted us to do [...]

In this weeks video we answer the question – Is Blue Moon Beer? This popular beer from Coors Brewing Co. in Colorado is widely available and marketed heavily. The result – it is what most Americans think of when you talk about Hefeweizen or Wheat Beers. Is that a bad thing? [...]

In this episode we talk about Beer Advocate Meet Ups. They are a great way to meet other beer enthusiast in your area. BA Meet Ups occur all over the country, to find one near you go to the events page on Beer Advocates website. Most recently we attended the BA Meet [...]

Episode 2 – Tonight we hosted a Victory beer sampling at our inn (Forty Putney Road) in Brattleboro Vermont. We sample the Wild Devil, Helios and Tim’s new favorite – V12.
Thanks for the questions and keep them coming. We intend to do this “show” on Tuesday and / or Thursdays – [...]

Happy New Year everyone.  For the New Year we are launching an additional series of videos.  We envision this series to include a  question and answer segment.   We need your help to make this a success.  Send us your questions either in this post on facebook, twitter, U-Tube, Blip…etc.  We will do our best [...]