The Brew Basement

Hello!
Just a quick follow-up on my recent post on commercial sources for vintage beer. Aaron, in the comments of that article, mentioned finding several aged brews in State Line Liquors in Elkton, Md including a 2000 JW Lees Harvest Ale and a 1989(!) Thomas Hardy’s. Also, not to bring them up yet AGAIN, but keep [...]

Hello everyone. I’m hoping to get one of these tasting updates banged out each week until I finally get current. It’s going to be a long haul, but I’ll get there.
In the meantime, I want to make sure everyone knows just how well the Le Merle from North Coast brewing has been doing - it’s [...]

Hello all! I noticed a couple of the online beer merchants have some aged brews in stock right now. Since questions asking about where you can purchase aged beers are among the most common inquiries I get, I thought I’d take a moment and point them out to you.
First off, check out the Vintage/Rare section [...]

…. well maybe not vacation exactly. Call it a little break, a little time off to focus on some personal things and recharge the ol’ posting batteries at the same time. Thanks to all of you who wrote to check up on me, I’ll be replying to your emails soon.
As you can imagine, I have [...]

Here’s the first half of September’s tastings (since you asked for them James!). Part 2 will be following up soon! As seemingly always, the results were a bit of a mixed bag….
Middle Ages Druid Fluid ‘07 (Six Months) - There’s no mistaking this for a Double IPA now! It’s transforming into a fantastically balanced barleywine.
Southern [...]

Hello everyone!
Lisa and I spent the past weekend celebrating our anniversary with a couple of friends up in the wilds of the Adirondack mountains. The reason I’m mentioning it here is that we stumbled on a newly opened restaurant in the sleepy little town of North Creek. It’s named BarVino, and despite it being a [...]

It sounds incredible, but that’s what entrepreneur and inventor Casey Jones claims to be able to do! His device, the “Ultrasonic Wine Ager” claims to be able to take any alcohol that tastes better aged and give it a vintage-like taste in under an hour.
After just a half hour or so, a seven dollar bottle [...]

Hello everyone!
Hey, I’m only a month late with my August tasting updates - that’s not TOO bad, right? It’s hard to believe that as long as I get September’s tastings up within a week or two I might actually get caught up with my notes.
Anyway, check out my August tastings below. There were a lot [...]

I’ve been asked a few times recently about the Brew Basement beer cellar and how it’s looking these days. Always eager to please, I took a bunch of pics and I thought I’d bore you to death with a few of them.

Here’s where all the magic happens. OK, so it’s a bit nondescript, but it’s [...]

Hi everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend.
It was labor day weekend for those in the US, which meant Lisa and I didn’t have to go into work on Monday. The day off came at a perfect time for my wife and I as August has been a bit of a tough month [...]