January 3, 2012
WTOPNews Beer of the Week #3 and #4
Over the past couple of weeks (as with this stretch of time every year), I became a bit of a slacker. I completely missed posting the last two episodes of WTOPNews “Beer of the Week” segments with Churchkey’s beer director, Greg Engert. Below are reviews of Port City’s Tidings as well as Brasserie Dupont’s Avec [...]
December 30, 2011
Favorite Beers of 2011
Along with the freshly posted Year In Review, it’s also time to note those brews which stood out over the past twelve months.. In no particular order (chronological in terms of post date perhaps) here are a few of my favorite beers. Please note that some of them were sent to me by breweries or [...]
December 30, 2011
Barley Blog 2011 Year in Review
The past 12 months have absolutely flown by. This year-end post completely snuck up on me, but I think I’ve got everything covered — nerdy site statistics and more. So without further adieu, let’s get into the 2011 year in review. At the time of this post, there were 278 total posts with an average [...]
December 18, 2011
WTOP Beer of the Week #2
This week, WTOP and Churchkey’s beer director Greg Engert discuss Troeg’s Mad Elf seasonal release.
October 1, 2011
Virginia Breweries Medal at Great American Beer Festival
The winners list for this years Great American Beer Festival has just been announced. You can check all the winners out here. But more importantly Virginia breweries had a great showing this year: Starr Hill Brewery Jomo Lager: Gold for Vienna-Style Lager Blue Mountain Brewery Summer Lovin’: Gold for English-Style Summer Ale Mad Fox Brewing [...]
September 12, 2011
No More “The”
There’s been one major issue with this site as we slowly approach it’s fifth birthday this upcoming December. The problem has been there from the very moment I registered the domain name. And it’s confused people that I’ve shared the website URL with over the years. “The”… That damned “the” in the domain name was, [...]
September 2, 2011
Session #55: Label, Coaster and Cap Art
Running The Barley Blog is a hobby — a tasty, tasty hobby. The full time job has me fully immersed in Web design and development. As much as I enjoy coding around Internet Explorer’s faults, it’s the design aspect of my job where my heart lies. So, it’s fairly understandable that I am drawn to [...]
August 26, 2011
Beer Photo: Hop Harvest
Reuters Pictures I love finding photos like this on the Interwebs. Above, we’ve got a great shot of a few hard working gentlemen loading up hop vines for stripping in Zgornje Grusovlje, Slovenia — it’s the beginning of harvest season in the region. Any guess as to what hop variety it may be?
August 2, 2011
Too Many Beer Glasses?
So, I’m a sucker for beer glassware. I don’t go out of my way to hunt down a rare or specific piece, but if I happen to see something from a brewery that I don’t own, more than likely it’s coming home. As was the case with a couple of Laughing Dog branded shaker pint [...]
June 8, 2011
Beer Cooler Set-up
A couple of weeks ago, before the real heat of a Virginia Summer had fully kicked in, I noticed that the temperature in the basement storeroom (where I house 150 or so bottles of beer) was higher than it should have been. Typically, in the hottest months the room averages 65° which isn’t ideal, but [...]
