While my wife and I were in Honolulu, we came across the Maui Brewing Company’s Waikiki location and climbed 8 half-flights of stairs to their massive restaurant and taproom overlooking the Waikiki hotel and shopping district.  We grabbed a couple stoo

This past December at the 100.7 The Bay Christmas Party, the staff got together and gave me a gift of a beer that I thought I’d never have simply because of the insane price for this insane beer!  The beer?  Utopias, from The Boston Beer Company. For

About three weeks ago, I received a package in the mail from DuClaw Brewing.  Because of it’s shape and weight, I wasn’t quite sure what was inside and thought it might be some glassware.  But once I opened it, I was happy to see four new, limited r

The 16th Annual Belgian Beer Fest at Max’s Taphouse kicked off at 11am this morning and runs until 2am tonight, and then goes from 11am to 2am tomorrow and Sunday!  For more on this one-of-a-kind tradition, take a listen, and cheers!

Last week in in Part II on Oliver Brewing, Head Brewer Steve Jones told us about the move from brewing at Oliver’s original site on Pratt Street to their brewery and taproom on Shannon Drive in Baltimore and described their spectacular hazy and juicy IP

In this Part II of the Oliver Brewing story, Steve tells us about brewing at Oliver’s original site on Pratt Street and then the move to their brewery and taproom on Shannon Drive in Baltimore. Click below to listen...

Oliver Brewing has been brewing beer in Baltimore for 27 years, the longest operating craft brewery in Maryland.  Yesterday afternoon, I spent some time with Steve Jones, Oliver Brewing’s Head Brewer, and talked about his career, the brewery’s growth

With the year 2020 upon us, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company has released a beer celebrating their 40-year anniversary! Hoppy Anniversary Ale is a classic West Coast IPA. Join me in toasting this world-class beer....

In the early 1980’s, the beer industry began to change because of the very slow emergence of craft breweries.  At that time, and through most of the 1990’s, these smaller breweries were known as microbreweries.  But the concept was the same for craf