Archive for September, 2009

Craft Beer Week Wrap-up

The second annual NYC Craft Beer week ended yesterday with a big blow-out celebration at Studio Square in Long Island City, Queens. In addition to the large selection of different craft beers, a number of bands provided entertainment in the outdoor beer garden all afternoon and into the evening.  Indoors there were a number of [...]

Gotham Cask Festival

With the start of fall just around the corner and the evenings already starting to cool, it is time again for New Yorkers to get out and enjoy the bounty that the craft beer world has to offer them.

One Day in the Windy City

Ever since this brewery was featured at a brewery event at the Blind Tiger Alehouse last year (the absolute best brewer event ever), I knew that I would one day visit and sample their beers at the site of production.

Kuhnhenn hits NYC

Although this brewery is not terribly well-known outside of the midwest, this event should put people here on notice because these guys know their stuff.

Welcome to Malted Musings

First, an introduction.  My name is Joe McPhee and I have been a craft beer enthusiast for over ten years.  My first experience with non-fizzy yellow beer was an almost accidental taste of Guinness while at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.  This quickly led to a compulsion to try everything that the (then [...]