Simply Beer In The News
Victory Brewing Company wins Craft Beer & BBQ Festival
by Pete Genovese
The Star-Ledger, September 09, 2009
The Victory Brewing Company’s HopDevil Ale was a winner at the Craft Beer & BBQ Festival at Monmouth Park.
Victory had a good day at the track.
Downington, Pa.-based Victory Brewing Company walked off with top honors at the Craft Beer & BBQ Festival, held Saturday and Sunday at Monmouth Park.
Victory’s HopDevil Ale and Golden Monkey, a Belgian-style ale, shared first-place honors from a panel of judges that included Peter Kennedy of simplybeer.com. Read More >>
Gonzo and In-Heat Wheat outshine the competition
Posted by josh
Flying Dog News, July 8, 2009
Published in Gonzo Imperial Porter, In-Heat Wheat Hefeweizen, Podcasts
SimplyBeer.com has been conducting a series of “Beer Brawls”, where a group of guys buy a group of similar beers from a group of great American craft breweries. They drink these brews and talk about them in a lengthy podcast. Read More >>
Another Great Beer Dinner
July 8, 2009
Amanti Vino News
A few weeks back we took over Restaurant Passionné in Montclair and had Chef/Owner Michael Carrino prepare an incredible tasting menu to match the distinctive beers of DogFish Head Brewery. Read More >>

I apologize, I don’t recall how this beer came into my beer cave. I know it came as part of a trade…. None-the-less, I’m surprised I still have room for more beer after the amazing showcase of Iron Brewer beer I had earlier tonight. But, it is here and it’s time for this Lost Abbey [...]
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 2:41 pm in Beer Reviews, Flanders Red.
Tags: Beer Review, Lost Abbey, Red Poppy
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My wife and I are on a quest to find her 10 beers over the next 3 months that she can enjoy! We have found very few beers that she has enjoyed. So tonight we sampled two beers, Southern Tiers Creme Brulee and Fantome Dark White. These are almost polar opposite beers, so I hoped [...]
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 9:00 am in 3 months 10 beers.
Tags: Creme Brulee, Dark White, Fantome, Southern Tier
There are 7 comments on this post.
This is the second of a couple ciders that Crispin Ciders sent me to review. As I said in my last cider review, I’m not a huge fan of ciders, mostly because the cheap homogenized macro beer versions I had tasted like crap. I told Crispin Ciders this, but would keep an open mind to [...]
Posted on August 31, 2010 at 9:00 am in Cider.
Tags: Crispin, Hard Apple cider
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Last week I had a wonderful tasting of my Homebrew at Elizabeth Street Brewery, It was a small and very personal tasting because of the limited amount of beer I could afford to ship. At the Tasting hosted by Richard Brewer-Hay, proprietor of Elizabeth Street Brewery were about 15 local craft beer lovers and supporters [...]
Posted on August 30, 2010 at 9:00 am in 3 months 10 beers.
Tags: .
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OK, I have a couple beers in me and it time to let the shit fly. Now I’m a firm believer in “every thing has its place”, but there are just some things in the craft beer world that is plain getting out of hand. eBay is my gripe of the day, rather [...]
Posted on August 5, 2010 at 11:37 pm in For the Love of Beer.
Tags: Cable Car, eBay, Lost Abbey, Rants
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