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 […]
July 26, 2013
Beer gardens in Salzburg, Austria
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. […]
July 19, 2013
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German Alps in the summer
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 […]
July 16, 2013
European Beer Bloggers Conference – Edinburgh, Scotland
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 […]
June 27, 2013
A weekend in Copenhagen, Denmark
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 […]
June 25, 2013
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London; Being a Tourist in my Own City
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, […]
June 21, 2013
Recap: Springtime in London
June 2013. I’ve been living in London for a year and a half now, the longest amount of time I’ve ever lived outside of the United States. As I reflect back on this past spring, I’ve considered the unique experiences I’ve had as a result of living in London. There have been so many remarkable activities […]
June 14, 2013
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Federal Taphouse – Harrisburg, PA
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 – […]
August 6, 2013
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