For the true beer aficionado, there's nothing like being able to treat your friends to not just a tasty beer, but also an interesting story about that brew's origins. The editors at Imbibe Magazine put together this list of 10 beers that will give you something to talk about until the next round.

 

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As many of you are aware, I recently put out a call for help and asked if any one was interested in hosting a WVCBAS Blog. Well many of you came forth and offered your services and I am going to take each and every one of you up on it.

Actually I am very happy to announce that we actually posted our first submission today. Dana, aka The Hoppy Preacher, has posted his first post on his blog, Almost Heaven(ly) Hops. Dana, a Presbyterian Minister by trade and beer geek by choice, will discuss...

So, my wife and I are in Washington DC for the next several days. We are here because she has to attend a class at Washington Hospital Center today and tomorrow. That means I am on my own for the next two days.

So, what's a boy to do when he is all alone in the big city? Well, does a pub crawl of course!

I have an itinerary of several brewpubs, beer bars and other beer centric locations mapped out based on recommendations from some of you and from Beer Advocate's Beer Fly Reports. I plan to...

I recently picked up a copy of the inaugural edition of a new beer magazine called The Beer Connoisseur. It is a pretty good rag with several good beer reviews, features on a few breweries, some beer and food articles and a great feature on Anchor Brewing, Fritz Maytag, and the start of the American Craft Beer Industry. Hell, they even mentioned WV's own Forks of the Cheat Winery in an article titled "Life Outside of Beer". But one article in particular got me thinking. It was the very last...