Category: Site News

The Brewhaha of ’08… anticipation mounts »

From Dictionary.com: brou·ha·ha   / [broo-hah-hah, broo-hah-hah, broo-hah-hah] –noun 1. excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamor attending some sensational event; hullabaloo: The brouhaha followed disclosures of graft at City Hall.  2. an episode involving excitement, confusion, turmoil, etc., esp. a broil over a minor or ridiculous cause: A brouhaha by the baseball [...]

THE APOCALYPSE… in beer form »

I can’t believe it. I can’t f%&#ing believe it. I can’t F%&#ING BELIEVE IT!!! They all blew. THEY ALL BLEW! THE WHOLE G%#DAMN CABINET!!! It is quite possible that I have discovered a source of energy that is renewable, organic, has the potential to free us from the grip of foreign oil, and will get you [...]

ANOTHER valuable resource, beer lovers and brewers! »

TastyBrew.com! Friends, brewers, beervolk… check out that site! All (or at least many) of your beer concerns will be alleviated by this comprehensive site. Need more recipes? Not sure how to calculate gravity? Lonely in the dark looking for signs of life? Just love beer? Well you’re all* in luck! TastyBrew.com IS that luck. Yeah. [...]

Going all Business-Like… or something »

Friends, the Captain has designed a business card for all of his contacts and business associates through the Hall of Beers. It most certainly rocks: I didn’t know you could define the word “Awesome” without words, but you can, beer readers, you can.

Recipes for YOU… and him… not you… yes me… »

Friends, in my lifelong quest for better beering, I recently came across a website—the homepage for our friends from the Culver City Home Brewing Supply Co. in fact—that gives a number of wonderful lookin’ recipes for your (in this case “your” meaning “my”) home brewing pleasure! Most stores, sites, whathaveyou, are very cagey about giving [...]

Site News: HoB upgrades aplenty »

Greetings readers, I have been working diligently to perform a boatload of maintenance on the site. You will notice the new look, but there are many new features under the hood. Those of you who frequent the site will notice that spam is gone, which came from a variety of security enhancements. We also now [...]

holiday SPAM… »

Well Merry Beermas and Chanukah and Ramadon but not Kwanza. Drawin’ the line. But ANYWAY… some of our holidays seem to have been full of SPAM. The Captain goes on one little multiday beer fest, and when he returns to port (uh… webport!) he finds the marina strewn with Canadian Pharmacy Free Drugs No Prescription [...]

Site News: Altbier ist hier! »

Zee General reports that the Altbier brewed last month turned out great. After a 60-hour week at work, the General and his wife headed to Shenandoah Brewing Co. for some fun times…bottling. Bottling is actually a strenuous activity. Sadly, I think we each only had one beer each during the process. The machines we need [...]

A new month, a new beer and SPAM! »

Friends, as 2007 winds down, as my Belgian Wit beer bottle ages, as the air turns ever more crisp and the days grow shorter, and as this sentence runs on and on… why, I ask, is HallofBeers suddenly getting spammed like a champ? I know not, but know it’s not cool. And I am about [...]

Site News: General German has made…Altbier! »

 Some Site News: Captain, Kolonel, and Sarge–I am delighted that you will be in DC for Xmas, as I will indeed have my Altbier ready-to-go. I must say it wasn’t easy. The General’s wife has a bad cold, so I made the brew pretty much all myself (except the General’s father dropped by to help [...]