Recently, yours truly joined Ed Bailey and Day Bracey on the Drinking Partners Podcast. You know a podcast is great when the stop button gets pressed after recording and your face hurts from laughing! I joined these guys less than a week before they made history with Fresh Fest. Unfortunately, […]
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It’s hard to argue these sentiments of Andy Kwiatkowski, Head Brewer at Hitchhiker Brewing in Sharpsburg and Mount Lebanon. The landscape of Pittsburgh beer has taken on a total transformation since the current decade began – a transformation filled with breweries of all different sizes, shapes, models, and modus operandis […]
A big welcome home to many of the brewers, brewery owners, and sales force who spent last week in Nashville for the annual Craft Brewers Conference. This year’s gathering also saw the return of the World Beer Cup, an every-other-year competition that pits breweries from around the world against one […]
For whatever reason, I remember this story from back in the day like it just happened five minutes ago. It was a Sunday back in 2006 and I needed beer for a family picnic. Since I live in Pennsylvania, there were no beer distributors open because, as I mentioned, it […]
It’s another busy month for can releases here in the ‘Burgh! Check out what breweries across the city are rolling out so you can stock your refrigerators from top to bottom! Week of Sunday, April 1st thru Saturday, April 7th RELEASE: 3-2=1 Double IPA (Collaboration with Outer Range Brewing) | […]
For the past three years, the crew from Caliente Pizza & Draft House have made the trek out to Las Vegas for the International Pizza Expo. And each year, they’ve represented Pittsburgh’s pizza scene well. Really, really well. Like, ‘best in the world’ well. Literally. In 2016, Caliente Regional Chef […]
Neat: The Story of Bourbon is a feature-length documentary that dives into the incredible world of bourbon. From its rich history of establishing itself as America’s native spirit to its fall from grace through the late 60s, 70s, and 80s thanks to the rise of clear spirits to its return […]
If you can’t find a beer you like in the United States these days, you’re either looking with your eyes closed or you simply don’t like beer. Over 5,000 breweries and counting have set up shop from coast to coast, all offering different atmospheres, different business models, and different portfolios. […]
It’s a little known fact that my family has ties to organized crime from back in the days of Prohibition. No connection to the world-famous families of the world in regards to blood relations, but the scene in my little hometown of Bradford, Pennsylvania was one rich with mafia-related activity. […]