Dayton On Tap

The Affligem Pouring Kit or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being a Sell Out

June 1, 2013 by Max Spang

If you have a blog long enough, people will hit you up about all kinds of things: events, guest posts, "affordable marketing", "long term SEO options", and a whole bunch of other stuff that you will tend to ignore. However, I recently got an email that I didn't ignore. It was from Affligem, a Belgian brewery that has apparently been making beer for 950 years, though I had never heard of them. They offered to send me one of their pouring kits free-of-charge. Me being the snob that I am, I am skeptical of any brand of beer that I haven't heard of, much less one that has enough cash to send free … [Read more...]

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Big Brews And Blues Fundraiser for Dayton Diabetes

May 13, 2013 by Lisa Grigsby

Diabetes Dayton will host an evening of craft beer, good food & live blues music this Friday, May 17th at Carillon Park. This 4th annual Big Brews and Blues helps generate funds that allow any child living with diabetes to attend their special camp. Camp for these kids means making friends with other children living with diabetes, becoming more independent, receiving the best medical care 24/7, and enjoying all the fun camp can offer. For a $30 ticket guests will get commemorative tasting glass, be able to enjoy up to 20 beer samples and enjoy the live blues music from 4 bands. … [Read more...]

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How to be an awesome beer reviewer

April 11, 2013 by Max Spang

Please note that this article is not meant to be taken seriously. So, you’ve stepped into the craft beer world. You’ve stopped drinking out of the bottle like a hobo, started letting your beer warm up a bit before drinking, and you now use words like “snifter” and twirl your beer around in the glass like an idiot on a regular basis. Now you’re telling me that you want to be a beer reviewer? Alright, tough guy (or gal), I am going to lend you my expertise into this lucrative and glamorous world of beer reviewing. Below is a guide that I have developed over the past two years of … [Read more...]

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Raising the Twelve Percent Limit on Beer

April 3, 2013 by Brian Petro

BeerAdvocate is one of the top beer rating sites online. It is a wonderful place to find a good beer because of its rating system from professionals and a myriad of reviews from beer fans. Reading the reviews and comments on Samuel Adams’ Utopias, you can see this complex and delicious beer is incredibly popular with beer aficionados. The brothers who run the site gave it a 100, the best possible rating it can get, and 887 other raters have given it a cumulative score of 99. The raters discussed its big flavors, great aromas and smoothness as it washed over their tongue. The flavors people … [Read more...]

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Local Homebrew Shop Wants Your Help To Start a Hop Farm

April 2, 2013 by Lisa Grigsby

Osborn Brewing is a homebrew shop that just recently opened on American Way at Highway 63 in Monroe. Besides selling supplies like boiling pots, thermometers, siphons and fermentors, owner Brent Osborn wants to make locally grown hops available to local beer makers. Osborn says one out of 160 to 170 people over the course of a year will try to make beer at home. As brewers know, having fresh ingredients is one of the most important factors in making beer. Unfortunately, right now there aren't a lot of hop options for local brewers. Until now. Osborn is in the process of … [Read more...]

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Lovely Day for a Guinness!

March 15, 2013 by Brian Petro

Until the discovery of germs and bacteria, water was unsafe to drink. Europe had it the worst, with so many people and so much industry located near bodies of water that people also drank out of. People were turning to spirits in droves, since it was much safer to drink then the water. Gin was the popular choice; it was cheap, it had some flavor, and brandy had been banned because of England’s on again/off again love affair with France. It was getting so cheap that people were abusing it. At the height of the Gin Craze, the British were drinking an average 2.2 gallons of gin a year. The … [Read more...]

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Ultimate Craft Beer Extravaganza and Cityfolk at the Dayton Convention Center + TICKET CONTEST

March 6, 2013 by Dayton Most Metro

Cityfolk and B&G Events present the Ultimate Craft Beer Extravaganza at the Dayton Convention Center March 8th & 9th. Come experience one of the Premier 'Consumer-Judged' tasting events of the year! There will be Unlimited Samples of over 350 different Craft Beers representing over 100 different breweries. The Consumers will be rating the selections while enjoying great live Blues/Rock bands provided by Cityfolk and a food voucher is included in this event. Don't miss this, it's going to be an amazing Craft Beer experience supporting Cityfolk! B&G Events main focus is to provide … [Read more...]

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Fantôme Saison, A Ghostly Brew

February 8, 2013 by Max Spang

Man, you remember when saisons weren't made by tiny breweries from Vermont and made up a good chunk of everyone's best of list? It's like you had to go to Belgium to get a good saison, and this one from Fantôme was (and still is) one of the most highly rated examples of the style. I got this bottle all the way from Belgium via the glorious internet, cracked it open, and did what every good beer geek does; took diligent notes. This fella clocks in at 8% ABV. Appearance The beer is getting its sais on (get it?). It pours a lovely hazy straw color with a huge white head. The lacing was ghostly … [Read more...]

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The Beer Can rEvolution

January 24, 2013 by Brian Petro

When I was a kid, I remember taking a sip of my dad’s beer, right out of the can. I am fairly sure it was the worst thing I have ever tasted. It tasted like a wet bread and metal sandwich. I did not actually drink another beer until I was legal to do so, thinking if all beer tasted like that, I was better off without it. In retrospect, drinking Old Milwaukee out of a can is a poor choice on quite a few levels. And for the most part, people will agree that beer out of a can is about as low as you can get on the beer spectrum. That was not always the case. On January 24, 1935 the first canned … [Read more...]

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2nd Annual MSD Brew Ha-Ha – Drink beer at school!

January 12, 2013 by Max Spang

Remember when you were in grade school and the teacher would get all mad at you for cracking open a delicious IPA in the middle of class? And you're all like "You don't understand. This was only bottled 5 days ago!". I can't be the only one, can I? Well now is your chance to get back at your teacher and support the Montessori School of Dayton at the same time. The 2nd Annual MSD Brew Ha-Ha is happening on January 26, and this year is going to be great. Take that, Mrs. Virginia! All joking aside, this is not an event that you'll want to miss. There will be some beers available that are tough … [Read more...]

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