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2010 National Homebrew Day and American Craft Beer Week

Big Brew Celebrates National Homebrew Day – May 1st

The AHA’s Annual Big Brew event celebrating National Homebrew Day is coming up on May 1. This year’s recipes have been posted and site registration will be available in the Spring. New for this year, professional craft brewers will be brewing the Big Brew wheat beer recipe [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Top 10 Gift ideas to purchase for a Beer Lover (part 2)

The holiday season is fast approaching.  Are you having trouble finding a gift?  Let us help you with some amazing gift ideas.  Lets recap part 1:
10 ) BREW-OPOLY
9 ) Beer of the Month Club
8 ) Beer Magazine Subscription:

Beer Advocate Magazine
Draft Magazine

Ale Street News
Yankee Brew New

All About Beer Magazine
Beer Connoisseur Magazine

(in case you missed it, click [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

11th Annual Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day

The American Homebrewers Association (AHA) invites you to teach a friend the art of homebrewing on Saturday, November 7th. Teach a friend Homebrewing day is an international event and homebrewers around the world will be introducing their friends to the homebrewing hobby.
Each year on the first Saturday in November, homebrewers around the world are [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Homebrewing: Winners of the NERHBC have been announced

4th Annual NERHBC (New England Regional Homebrew Competition) took place on October 24th 2009 in Portland-Maine. The New England Regional Homebrew Competition continues to grow every year. In 2008, over 290 entries, from 20 states were entered, and we were able to raise $2,200 for the American Cancer Society.
In 2009, 343 entries were sampled [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Beer Dinner: Gardner Ale House – All Beef Beer Dinner

All Beef Beer Dinner – Certified Black Angus – A Sophisticated Affair

Thursday, October 15
6 – 8:30 PM
2Beerguys Commentary:
I love this idea. Beef, Beer and more Beef – it’s what for dinner. As Rick mentions below, the summer beer dinner was a veggie only event. He took a bold step — possibly alienating the [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Results of the Topsfield Fair Homebrew Competition

Last Saturday, the 2009 Topsfield Fair Homebrew Competition was held in Topsfield, MA. Hosted by the Northshore Homebrewers (in which I am a member), a group of avid homebrewers gathered to judge entries from all across the country. There were 146 homebrew entries in total, separating into the 17 different categories (as designed [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Monday, September 14th, 2009

Upcoming Events: Haverhill Tap, Brew Camp and ACBF

Here are some local events for this week:
HAVERHILL TAP EVENT: Ascension Belgian IPA Release Party – Thursday‏ June 18
The Haverhill Tap will be releasing their first 22 oz. bottle, Ascension Belgian IPA, on Thursday night at 7 p.m. Hope everybody can make it up! They will be selling the bottles for $5 at [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Monday, June 15th, 2009

Local homebrewers splashing into the local media

For those who are not familar with the 2Beerguys, we are involved with the Local homebrew club – North Shore Brewers. It’s great for anyone that wants to learn about hombrewing.  Sure, you can read a book or two — but you have to get in and learn from experience. Dive in and give it [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

2009 Boston Wort Homebrew Competition Results

On Saturday, I participated as a judge for the Boston Wort Homebrew competition. The judging started around 9:00 and lasted a good part of the day.  During the first round, judged some of the Bocks and IPA’s during the second round.  There were about 20-30 judges in attendance from Mass/RI/NH homebrew clubs.
During the [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

BEER LAW: Homebrewing legalized in Utah

Here’s a link to an article about the grass root efforts in UTAH to legalize home brewing.
Hopefully this will encourage more people to home brew.  It’s fun and a good way to teach cooking and science.
Sean
2Beerguys.com

Grassroots Beer Brewers Score a Victory in Utah
Written by Benjamin Dangl
Just three companies control approximately 80 percent of the [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009