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Boston Beer week and American Craft Beer Festival (ACBF) 2010

June Is Beer In Boston

Boston, MA – To celebrate beer in Boston, Jason and Todd Alström, brothers and founders of BeerAdvocate, will officially launch Boston Beer Week from June 11-20, 2010. The not-for-profit campaign aims to encourage and empower brewers, bars, restaurants, stores, and anyone else involved in the beer industry within the 128-Belt to [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Beer or ale: What are you drinking?

Are you drinking Lagers or Ales? Do you know?
This is an interesting question that many beer drinkers face. Budweiser is a lager, but what is Miller light? Are my favorite Harpoon beers lagers or ales?
At a recent beer event, I had a discussion with a festival participant on this topic. Lets [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Return of the Craft Beer Education Series

The Craft Beer Education Series makes its return from its summer hiatus on Friday, October 10th with Session #6: Fall seasonals. This class will feature an excellent selection of fall seasonal beers, including Oktoberfests and pumpkin beers.
The lineup will feature Erdinger Oktoberfest, Spaten Munich Oktoberfest, Dogfish Head Punkin Ale, Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin, Sam Adams [...]

Posted by: Ian on Monday, September 29th, 2008

2Beerguys – Craft Beer Education Series

On Thursday, Ian and I hosted our 5th Craft beer Education class at Leary’s Fine wine and Liquors – Newburyport, Ma. It was a great success.
It was a pseudo Best in Store smörgåsbord of beer, featuring beers from the light to the dark end of the style spectrum. The class focused [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Craft Beer Education Series #4

Come one come all…wait, only 20 of you can come to the next installment of the Craft Beer Education Series: Craft Beer Smorgasbord! This time, we will be featuring a “best in store” selection of styles from all over the beer map, showcasing the following beers:
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale [Pale Ale], Founders Centennial IPA [IPA], [...]

Posted by: Ian on Monday, May 12th, 2008

Information about Rye Beer

Howdy,
I saw this information about Rye beers within a different story and wanted to share. I hope that you find it interesting.
Sean
2Beerguys.com
Rye Beers
Rye beers are typically spicy and, in America, often heavily hopped to compliment the natural spicy notes of malted rye.
German Roggenbier often tastes of pumpernickel and is typically brewed with a [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Beer Brewing 101 – provided by Stanford Students

Let there be beer
Students in EBF explore the art of homebrewing
April 15, 2008
By Christopher P. Anderson
The search for a tasty brew has consumed the nightlife of college students for eons. Sean Arenson ‘08 and Carolyn Mansfield ‘08, residents in the Enchanted Broccoli Forest (EBF), have an unusually direct approach to acquiring good beer. They make [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Happy Happy Joy Joy.
If you aren’t working today, I hope that you are celebrating your day with a traditional Irish breakfast and making plans for your Corn Beef and Cabbage.
Over the weekend I flipped back and forth between the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade and the Rock of Love – Starting Brett Michaels [Sounds [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Monday, March 17th, 2008

Craft Beer Education Series: IPA

Posted by: Ian on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Publick House

I can only hope that everyone is passionate about something in their life. For me, at this moment, I’m passionate about beer. Not just about drinking it, but writing about it, talking about, and educating others about it. As I write this, I’m sitting at the Redhook Cataqua Publick House in Portsmouth. I look around, [...]

Posted by: 2beerguys on Monday, February 4th, 2008