By Greg B.  I have a selection of wines to review, and with summer approaching, I better get through them!  Back when the weather was warmer here in Baltimore and we had that early April heat wave, I chilled and cracked open a  bottle of Riesling from Biohof Pratsch Lange Reid 2009, an organic vintner [...]

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By Greg B.  Often I find that beers which are in the US market yet produced in the Western coast region of the US are excellent.  And truthfully, I haven’t had a lot of bad beers in the last year.  Sure, many of the ones I got from the up and coming western NY beer [...]

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By Greg B.  I can probably stop you from reading this entire post if you want, the basic summary is going to be ‘German people are exceedingly generous, friendly, funny and energetic’.  And of course as you might expect, our time in Germany involved hiking, beer, dancing, smoking and amazing food.. and parades, which I [...]

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By Greg B.  Right around the start of the 1800′s, a man named Samuel Allsopp purchased a failing brewery in Burton Upon Trent.  The reason why it was failing is interesting to note, the British Empire and Napoleon controlled Europe were at odds, and Napoleon had issued several strong embargoes upon British goods, including beer.  [...]

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By Greg B.  This may not be the best season for this recipe, as it is typically a great festive dessert, party favor or decoration for the winter holidays, but here it is anyway!  One of the gifts my parents give each other for Christmas is a chocolate covered orange peel (in the shape of [...]

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