Archives for January 2016

Hopping Around There: Germany Crawls onto the Craft Wagon

January 11, 2016 by Tupper Leave a Comment

January 11, 2016. Munich, at last, is dipping its toes in the brewing waters of the 21^st century beer revolution. The Tap-House Munich, near Rosenheimer Platz (S Bahn on the way to Ostbahnhof), offers 40 beers on tap and more in bottles. Multi tap bars flourish in Hamburg, Berlin and other cities as well. However, brewing in Germany still has to dance around the restrictions of the Reinheitsgebot, the beer “purity” law of 1516.
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Hopping Around Here: DuClaw evokes the spirit of “Our Favorite Beer.”

January 7, 2016 by Tupper Leave a Comment

DuClaw’s Brimstone is a Beauty

Thursday, January 7, 2016. We are constantly asked, “Which of your 38,000 beers is your favorite?” The answer is easy and quick—“the one that’s in my hand” – and that’s usually actually true. But we do have an all-time “favorite beer” – a 1980 vintage Thomas Hardy Ale that we cellared and celebrated our new-born daughter’s journey to our home from the hospital in which she was born.
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Hopping Around Europe: Musik in Munich

January 4, 2016 by Tupper Leave a Comment

Monday January 4, 2016. Modern bands rock the club scene and pack Munich’s stadiums, but there’s still traditional music to be had if you make the effort to find it. Look for signs for Blasmusik to steer you to what Americans call an “Oompah Band.”
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Gold Metal Winning Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale Returns!

Join us at Dynasty Brewing on July 17 between 3PM and 8PM to savor the first batch of Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale in almost five years. We’ll be there signing books at a huge discount and the brewery will be pouring the beer that was created to be “Hoppy enough for Bob and balanced enough for Ellie.”

It hasn’t been easy to resurrect Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale, winner of a gold metal at the GBBF in the ’90s when well hopped beers were rare and almost non-existent in the east. We’ve collaborated with Dynasty’s head brewer Favio Garcia, the brewer who produced the last batch of Tuppers’ Hop Pocket at Old Dominion to reproduce an authentic version of the original. Dynasty is in Ashburn, Virginia– almost within walking distance of the Old Dominion brewery that brewed the first batch just over 25 years ago.

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Later — in July we resume some great weekend destinations for beer travelers that we’ve found researching our guide to breweries and inns of the Mid Atlantic. Whether you’re looking for a turn of the (20th) century 100 year old quaint and slightly rickety hotel, an engaging B&B or a magnificent survivor of the great era of railroad hotels, we’ve found hem– within walking distance of a brewery. We’ll present more previews of the book’s best here rolling up to Pennsylvania before we’re through.