Craft: “1. a trade or occupation requiring manual skill. 2. skill; dexterity.” – Random House Webster’s Dictionary “Craft”—and I use the term loosely—breweries are proliferating,…
The Hoppy Half-Pint
“True Fermentation few workers understand, That secret therefore I will expound to you… For like as flour of wheat made into a paste, Requires ferment,…
In a beer scene as young as Rochester’s, to say that a brewery produces clean beers without any obvious defects is a compliment. True, that…
“Forty-two!” yelled Loonquawl. “Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work?” “I checked it very thoroughly,” said the…
“Good people drink good beer.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas You may have noticed that The Hoppy Half-Pint and the…
It’s Halloween, which in the U.S. is pretty much an excuse to eat candy, wear costumes, scare ourselves silly, and unabashedly celebrate pumpkins. And this…
Full disclosure: I got my two cans of this beer from a public relations company. They did not pay me to write the review, nor…
On a chilly Saturday morning in early October, Ben and I went to an old-fashioned apple pressing. I’d guess about a dozen people showed up,…
“We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching that power must…
“Each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he…