Pennsylvania Girl Abroad

My childhood in central Pennsylvania was great, but life in that small town community sheltered me from a few experiences – like knowing about the existence of a thrilling summer activity where the objective is to speed down the mountain in a toboggan! So it wasn’t until a couple of weeks ago, at my young […]

What a shock! Kane Brewing Company may not immediately impress you from the outside, but just like all things “Jersey” – it’s easy to stereotype from looks alone… Smack in the middle of Monmouth County and tucked away behind a traditional Jersey shopping complex here’s an inconspicuous office sign at 1750 Bloomsbury Avenue. Where:  Ocean […]

Jim’s love of home-brewing beer is contagious (in a positive sense)! It was first transmitted to me two months ago when I joined Jim on a one day mashing course at the Home Brew shop in Aldershot, England. After the course, I began to play a much larger role in our home-brewing operation and only when […]

The “beer garden” is a wonderful thing – to me, it’s a representation of fun days spent outside with friends and loved ones enjoying life, where time always passes by way too quickly. Our travels began three days earlier in Munich in the Bavaria region of Germany, where the concept of the “biergarten” was invented. […]

Expectations were high as we left the picturesque city of Salzburg, Austria to drive to Bavarian village towns in Germany.  Earlier that week, on a bicycle tour to see the Sound of Music filming sights, we were informed that the opening sequence of the film –  a famous scene in movie history filled with striking images […]

The word “conference” used to conjure painful memories; a reminder of long boring seminars in my prior 10+ years of business careers,  where I suffered through lectures on sales, employment law, performance management and how to be a company leader. Fortunately, the Beer Bloggers Conference has forever changed my view… First Impressions..Wow! The conference was based at […]

Our 2nd time in Copenhagen.  Our first visit to the city last December proved to be so great that it left us wanting more… I usually try to keep the tourist-related activities to a minimum, but this time around, we opted to participate in a few, with zero regrets. Winding climb up for spectacular views I […]

I don’t know about you, but I rarely appreciate what’s right in front of me in the city where I reside… I’ve walked across the Tower Bridge now more times than I can count, where I’ve passed by tourists from all around the world taking photographs. By the time I get to the halfway point, […]