Graft Cider

Better is not always better.  Sometimes you gotta be wild. Think: painting or traveling or cooking.  Sometimes you want a stable, uneventful experience, but is that really fun?  Does that lead to amazing discoveries?  No.  That’s what was reaffirmed as I heard Kyle Sherrer talk last Sunday about his work blending cider. Anxo hosted a […]

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Craft is the Name of the Game

I was pretty excited to hear that Rustico was planning a craft beer dinner. It had been years since I attended beer dinners (2006-2007?) at their original Alexandria location. Those dinners were exciting and experimental. Like the frozen Lambic pops (which were deemed illegal) of the time, the chef would come out of the kitchen […]

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The British Are Coming

and they are delicious. Last Sunday night I dropped into Churchkey, you know, to see what I could poke with a stick. When I heard that a British tap takeover was a few days earlier I was kinda bummed. What used to stand for hundreds of years of experience – delicious maltiness and refreshing bitters […]

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