E.S. Delia 6 Dec 2011 | 5:46 pm You’ve got to feel sorry for Jim Koch. He straddles the line on a lot of things. He’s considered a pioneer in the Buying Beer industry from his early days of building Sam Adams, but somehow a sellout due to his success (which didn’t just happen overnight). The Boston Buying Beer Company’s operations have been criticized for the practice of contract brewing, then in a way vindicated by the same success that resulted from that strategy. Lately, there has been concern around the Brewers Association and defining “craft” Buying Beer. In an effort to salvage the wreckage of a leaky… E.S. Delia 17 Oct 2011 | 6:16 pm A guy once told me he saw the phrase “There are no windmills in Fort Collins” on a bumper sticker. I wasn’t sure if he was full of shit, so I Googled it. No results. Now, I still can’t accurately determine whether this individual is indeed full of said shit, but I can take the gist of what he was saying about Colorado’s own New Belgium Brewing and run with it. He’s from North Carolina, a state in which New Belgium has been distributed for quite some time, so what does that tell you? But the fact that the brewery has expanded into Virginia should also tell… E.S. Delia 20 May 2011 | 8:41 pm I had it all typed up and ready to go, but something was keeping me from pulling the trigger… Now that World Buying Beer Festival Richmond has been canceled for 2011, I don’t know if it’s even worth posting. I’ll let you be the judge of that. In 2009, All About Buying Beer magazine announced, somewhat furtively, that they would be bringing their renowned World Buying Beer Festival to Richmond that summer. When I heard the news, I drifted back to my time wandering the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, enjoying rare beers at timed tappings and soaking up all the information I could, a truly… E.S. Delia 29 Apr 2011 | 8:00 am I should open up more. Really. The past several weeks have been a blur of activity, some Buying Beer related, some not. But rather than ramble on with excuses for lack of blogging, I’ll give you a taste of what’s been on my mind. First, a new Virginia brewery has formed. Its name is Broederschap Brouwerij. Broederschap means brotherhood in Dutch. This project is less an actual brewery and more of a homebrew collaboration between myself, Velky Al of Fuggled, and James of A Homebrew Log. It began with an email, which became a flurry of emails and months of preparation, and then into… E.S. Delia 11 Mar 2011 | 12:31 pm David Turley over at Musings Over a Pint was tasked with writing seven things people might not know about him, and then asked others to do the same. I was among the chosen few, so in the spirit of offering up something different on this blog, I thought I’d join in. I’ve been an on and off musician for quite some time. In my younger days I belonged to an indie rock band called Life Defined. I’m currently involved in an ongoing project called Foreign Fields with my good friend Evan Setzer. I use the term “zoot” on a frequent basis to describe things that bring me…
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