Pennsylvania Girl Abroad

As each day passes, Jim and I feel more and more fortunate to have picked the Southwark area as our home base in London. Our recent excitement is due to the opening of Brew By Numbers – where a full fledged 10bbl brewery operation is going to be up and running very soon. Where: 79 Enid […]

Two weeks ago Elland Brewery was awarded one of CAMRA’s highest honors at the Great British Beer Festival for their 1872 Porter  – 2013 Champion Beer of Britain. Fortunately for Jim and I, our Yorkshire weekend devoted to cask ale beer ended on a high note with a personal guided tour at the Elland Brewery. While researching […]

This American girl knows a thing or two about the real ale scene, which won’t surprise my regular website visitors but might shock a few of the first time British visitors to my blog!  Since January 2012 when I officially became a UK resident, I’ve made it a goal to immerse myself in British culture […]

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. […]

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 […]

Harrisburg, PA has embraced the craft beer scene. A city population of approximately 50,000 makes it a small capital city for the state of Pennsylvania, especially compared to the larger metropolitan areas of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, but that hasn’t stopped it from shining in the world of craft and micro-brewed beer. Two successful microbreweries – […]