Saturday, August 26
Wyman’s Beach, WESTFORD, MA
FEATURING:
Grammy Award winner Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson
and a full lineup of other award-winning blues bands!
Mouth-watering BBQ
and other great food, Craft & Vendor Booths,
games, raffles, swimming, camping...
And don’t forget the BEER...
30-40 breweries -- over 100 different brews to try!
...and the NERAX table for Real Ale lovers
Tickets On Sale Now!
$25 per person in Advance -- includes beer tasting
Anheuser-Busch is kicking up the grilling season with a new line of Budweiser sauces, including a baste, two barbecue sauces and a wing sauce. Budweiser Wing Sauce, Budweiser Barbeque Sauce, Budweiser Baste, and Beechwood Smoked Budweiser Barbeque Sauce will be available just before the 4th, so get those grills ready.
Four tasty Budweiser sauce recipes were created by a team of chefs led by Certified Executive Chef, Brent Wertz, at Anheuser-Busch’s Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Va., in conjunction with Anheuser-Busch brewmasters. Check out these recipes and more at Hot Sauce Blog
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Like many of Unibroue’s beers, including Maudite (“Cursed”) and La Fin du Monde (“The End of the World”), Chambly Noire even has a dark story behind its creation. The brew is a salute to the Carugbab-Sallières, a regiment under King Louis XIV, known by their black musketeer hats. In 1665, they were sent to wipe out the Iroquois Indians living along the Richelieu River, and to build forts on its banks to ensure peace and prosperity for the colonies of New France. One of these forts still stands in Chambly - just down the road from the brewery itself.
Read BeerAdvocate's tasting notes of Unibroue's Chambly Noire
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Read more at ABC News: Woman Gets Beer From Her Kitchen Faucet
Cabin Fever Ale has got to be my favorite new beer. I started my brew day today mashing in 10 lbs of pale ale malt and a small amount of German Carafa to round off my first Schwarzbier. While waiting for this to extract the sugars I decided to crack open a Berkshire Brewing Company Cabin Fever Ale 22oz bomber. I didn't know what to expect because the label doesn't explain what style the beer is. Was I pleasantly suprised!
This ale is medium bodied and orange amber in color. The focus is completely on the hops. The hop flavor and aroma immediately reminded my of an American IPA or Sierra Nevada Pale Ale with that characteristic citrus flavor. There is no overwhelming hop bitterness so this is a very smooth drinking brew. I can only detect a very small astringency in the back of the throat, but nothing to detract from the balanced hop profile. This is definitely worth adding to the beer list for the next ski trip.
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Could there finally be a light beer brewed with significant flavor? Heineken is about to release Heineken Premium Light (H.P.L) to compete with the tasteless bunch of light beers currently available on the market. They have decided to flood websites popular with their target audience of 25-29 year old males. This beer caught my attention because my waistband is growing as a member of the 30+ crowd and the rest of the light beer bunch just don't cut it for me.
Read about Heineken Betting on the Web to Sell a New Light Beer
This raspberry fruit beer is advertised as the world's strongest at 18 percent alcohol by volume (ABV). The brewers added 20 pounds per barrel of pureed raspberries over the course of primary fermentation. This isn't your typical Lindemann's Framboise lambic!
Read more about Dogfish Head Fort over at Beer Advocate.
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Read more about BeerAdvocate's Extreme Beer Fest
I also wanted to mention that I will have a short article coming up. This should prove to be very fun for some of you homebrewing enthusiasts on a tight budget. This project involves a wooden hopper that holds 8 pounds of grain, a corona mill, and believe it or not, my KitchenAid 400W mixer! I have plenty of pics and suggestions to share. Check back soon!
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I stoked the yule log fire last night and sat down to enjoy a Wychwood Bah Humbug Christmas Ale and a glass of Dalwhinnie 15 year old Single Malt Scotch. The warmth of the hot flames and the smooth Scotch in my belly set me in the perfect mood for such a fantastic beer. If you like a holiday ale to retain some residual sugars, this beer will not disappoint. Bah Humbug has the perfect mix of deep caramel malt and a low to moderate hoppy bite to jazz it up. It pours a reddish-brown with some malt for nose candy. The mouthfeel is full-bodied and the taste is slightly spiced, if not a little raisin-like... although that could just be the anticipation of sugar plums dancing in my head! (Okay, bad joke) This Christmas ale is not one to be missed. The price was a bit steep at $3.99, but once a year it is worth picking up a gift for yourself and saying Bah Humbug to everyone else! ]]>
Homebrewers and beer drinkers alike should find the following article a very interesting read. Here is a quick excerpt:
"Beer brewing is among the tastiest of chemical experiments. Problem is, the reactions that begin with the first manipulations of the barley grain don't stop once the beer is in the bottle. The dynamic molecular world in all stored brews continues to alter flavors, sometimes overshadowing the tastes that a beer drinker loves with other flavors so offensive that they're likened to skunk spray and cardboard."
Read more about Quaffable Chemistry: The Science of Beer Flavors in Science News
]]>Boston, MA - BeerAdvocate has become the largest and fastest growing US beer community both on- and off-line. The popular on-line beer resource, founded in 1996 by brothers Jason and Todd Alström, reached a milestone of 50,000+ registered members worldwide, making it second to the UK-based Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) with 75,000+ members and founded in 1971.
Read the full Press Release about BeerAdvocate becoming the largest US Beer Community
Researchers at Oregon State University first discovered the cancer-related properties of this flavonoid compound called xanthohumol about 10 years ago. A recent publication by an OSU researcher in the journal Phytochemistry outlines the range of findings made since then.
Read more about hops: the anti-cancer compound in beer
What you really need is some quality craft-brewed beer to liven up the festivities. Impress the hell out of everyone when you whip out bottles of intriguing beer and reel off brief explanations of what they are. Fortify the ancestral tradition of feasting by complementing it with beer. Suggest a beer pairing with dinner. Hell, make it an all-day event, and remember there's nothing wrong with drinking at 10am. Beer goes with every meal and minute of the day!
Read more about Celebrating with BEER this Holiday Season at BeerAdvocate.com