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• All Maryland Beers at Milkhouse Brewery at Stillpoint Farm

  

  On May 22, 2012, then Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signed Senate Bill 579, which established a Class 8 Farm Brewing license for the Free State. Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Gonzalez Byass Lepanto Brandy De Jerez Solera Gran Reserva

  

  During our summer tour of the Tio Pepe winery in Jerez, we learned that Gonzalez Byass has been distilling grape brandy since the founders purchased their... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• #BevFluenceExperience Denver: Golden Moon Distillery

  

  One of the first tours of BevFluence's Denver Experience was to Golden Colorado and the Golden Moon Distillery. For good reason. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Snooth Murrieta's Well

  

  Murrieta's Well is an extremely reliable wine producer located in the Livermore Valley and we have written about this Wente family clone multiple times (view... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• The Federalist American Craft Wine and Candy

  

  During a recent #BevfluenceExperience in Denver our group experimented pairing various wines with candy: Whoppers, Oreos, Twizzlers, Skittles, and several... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• A Family Visit to Gonzalez Byass for Tio Pepe

  

  Regular readers of the WineCompass Blog will recognize the abundant number of posts regarding González Byass, the Jerez producers of Tio Pepe - a fino style of... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Extreme Viticulture: DOC Colares Portugal

  

  Wines of PortugalGusty, salt-laden winds that can burn leaves. Heavy autumn rains. Nutrient poor, sandy soils. These are the conditions faced by vineyards in th... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Extreme Viticulture: Bodega Colomé's Altura Maxima Vineyard

  

  Source: Bodega ColoméImagine an ideal grape growing region. This would most likely be a Mediterranean climate with abundant sunshine, hot days transitioning to... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• 1718 Brewing Ocracoke: Jam Box for Brunch

  

  1718 Brewing Ocracoke is well into their second summer and with an obvious demand, the brewery is operating at full capacity. During our weekly visit to this... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Kalfu Kuda and Chile's Leyda Valley

  

  Kalfu means ‘blue’ in the language of the Mapuche, the indigenous inhabitants of Chile, and for the Mapuche, Kalfu is synonymous with the magnificent Pacific... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Mititei, Barbecue, and Bodegas LAN

  

  We have been eating Mititei for quite a while and for those unfamiliar with this Romanian Barbecue dish it is a mixture of beef, lamb and\or pork with spices... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• The Michigan Wine Collaborative's Riesling Roundtable

  

  "There are about 3,100 acres of wine grapes in Michigan, and approximately 700 of them are Riesling, the largest acreage for any of our wine grape varieties. Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Missouri Wine: Kansas City and the Crossroads of Craft Beverages

  

  Kansas City is located in the epicenter of the continental United States and practically equidistance to our borders in each direction. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Natural Wine at the Old Westminster Winery's Summer Solstice Festival

  

  "Natural Wine is farmed organically (biodynamically, using permaculture or the like) and made (or rather transformed) without adding or removing anything in... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Gonzalez Byass La Copa Vermouth - What Would Hemingway Do?

  

  "That evening the priest from Henry’s mess comes to visit. He brings some presents for Henry: a mosquito net, a bottle of vermouth, and some English... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Missouri Wine: Norton - Missouri's Official State Grape

  

  The Norton grape has been the backbone of the Missouri wine industry through the industry's rise in the second half of the 19th century and the modern era. Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Navigating the Crus at the Beaujolais Road Show

  

  Discover Beaujolais"In 1395 Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, ordered that all Gamay vines be uprooted by the following Easter. Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Missouri Wine: Excelsior Springs is a Craft Beverage Destination

  

  In 1880, what is now downtown Excelsior Springs was a wheat field. Yet, within the end of the decade, Excelsior Springs was a vibrant town with transportation... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• River Hill Wine and Spirits - From Moonshine to Bourbon to Country Wine

  

  I couple years ago I started purchasing the River Hill Distillery Corn Whiskey as it provides a clean, textured, sweet corn flavor with little burn. Hard to do... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Silver Branch Brewing Company - A World of Beer

  

  As downtown Silver Spring Maryland revitalized it is also becoming a craft beverage destination with three breweries and a winery within a two-mile radius. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2019 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK