The Roaming Pint

With the temperatures warming up it’s only natural that our minds drift to outdoor endeavors. After enduring a long winter we long to get out and embrace the adventurous spirit that only travel can satisfy. The craft beer community is no different and over the last couple of weeks I have noticed the launch of [...]

We didn’t give ourselves a whole lot of time, but with two of Florida’s more prestigious craft beer events taking place on back to back days we were motivated to move. It was all going down in the Ybor City section of Tampa. Saturday was the Florida Brewer’s Beerfest and a couple blocks down was the Florida’s [...]

They say that it’s most basic, brewing beer is simply a matter of 1) making sugary liquid (wort) and 2) providing a good environment for it to ferment. The yeast that you add to wort needs to stay within a consistent temperature range to stay active to do their job of eating the sugars and kicking out [...]

The one thing I’ve always wanted to do since we’ve hit the road is to make some home brew…nomadic style. When people hear we are on a nationwide brewery tour they always ask if I brew on the road. I used to give excuses why I don’t, such as we don’t have room for the [...]

Due to his size Stanley, our RV, doesn’t always make it to the actual brewery on our visits but we try to get him as close as possible. It is nice to have him nearby when imbibing, whether it be to retrieve a growler when we find an amazing draft beer or to grab the dogs and enjoy a pet friendly patio. [...]

As Maria and I were walking to Work Labs we didn’t really know what to expect. I had found out about them when our friend Harvey from OhBeautifulBeer featured their Work Beer pint glasses. The brand was visually engaging and unique from anything I had seen in the craft beer industry. I looked into them further [...]

2012 was a busy year for Maria and I. We traveled from one side of the country to the other via the south and were exposed to parts of the country we had never had time time to explore before. A good three quarters of the year was spent traveling up and down the East coast discovering [...]

Maria and I had been looking forward to visiting Fullsteam ever since we started our eastern voyage. With our design backgrounds the Fullsteam visual concept always stood out to us as an innovative approach to craft beer branding, but we had yet to try their beer and weren’t quite sure what we were in for. Prior to arriving at the brewery I had arranged to [...]

While working our way through the East coast Maria ran across this article on the “10 best vacation cities for beer lovers“. We were quite pleased to see that we had already visited eight of them (Fort Collins, Milwaukee, San Diego, Seattle, Asheville, Burlington, and both Portland’s) but were a little puzzled to see Charlottesville, VA on [...]

You seldom hear about Canadian beer in the US. Sure we know all about the light lager offerings of Molson and Labatte, but have you ever heard anyone rave about a new beer put out by our neighbors to the North? With Canada’s legendary drinking prowess surely their craft beer scene would be developing stronger and more flavorful alternatives to the fizzy [...]

When Maria and I decided to buck the system and hit the road two years ago, we knew that we would be leaving friends and family behind. This was easily the biggest draw back to our new life style and it took awhile to adjust. Facebook kept us up to date and gave us a [...]

Portland, OR has a pretty solid reputation as a craft beer city, but the North East has their own Portland that has been making a name for itself in craft beer. All the way up the East Coast we had been hearing a good amount of buzz about Maine’s Portland and it’s craft beer scene. [...]