Beer & Chocolate – A sweet pair
My first experience pairing chocolate and beer was at a fundraiser beer pairing event in Portsmouth, NH. The Passport Beer dinner featured local restaurants and NH breweries in pairings of food items and one of their beers. I walked the grounds of the historic Strawberry Banke living history museum [...]

What it really means to “go local”
Everyone has a laundry list of resolutions, I’m sure. Lose weight, finish the novel, donate more to charity… I made up a short list of my own as far as my own beer drinking was concerned, and one stuck out to me – “support local beer.” In the days of [...]

The beer babe does the math – what craft ABV %s can mean for drinking and driving
I went to a defensive driving course a few months ago as a requirement for one of my jobs. I wasn’t surprised, but the video that they played was from about 1985 (complete with yellow suits with hideous shoulder [...]