Yesterday was the Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival and you know what that means! The 4th annual Barrels and Mash awards, but this year Kris was out of town eating tons of pizza in New York, so that leaves the awards up to me! Yikes! So, I dragged one of my extravert friends, Cara, and her husband […]
Read more "Barrels and Mash Presents: The 2019 Craft Beer Festival Awards"Last weekend was the Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival and you know what that means! The 3rd annual Barrels and Mash awards! We only went to one session this year (The VIP session on Saturday afternoon) which meant we had to pack as many tasty brew samples into the three hour time slot as we possibly could. […]
Read more "Barrels and Mash Presents: The 2018 Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival Awards"It’s the Sunday after the 2017 Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival, which means a relaxing morning with water and caffeine for a lot of us. This year’s festival was fantastic and we had an absolute blast. OCBF was nice enough to allow Barrels and Mash to take over their Instagram account for the Saturday night session, […]
Read more "Barrels and Mash Presents: The 2017 Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival Awards"Another Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival has come and gone, and it was a damn fun one! Since this is the first year of OCBF that Barrels and Mash has been a thing, we were trying to figure out how we should mark the occasion as the 3 of us were walking around drinking things all […]
Read more "Barrels and Mash Presents: The 2016 Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival Awards"It’s 9:30 am on a Saturday. I have a plastic cup full of FDR Coffee Stout from 405 Brewing Co. in one hand and a bag full of carbs in the form of pretzels, Cheez-Its, and Animal Crackers in the other. Rarely could one justify starting a day this way, but I’m in good company, […]
Read more "The 2017 Oklahoma Craft Beer Summit"This Saturday, August 5th at the Tower Theater on 23rd, the Craft Brewers Association of Oklahoma Inc. (CBAO) will be hosting the 2nd Annual Oklahoma Craft Beer Summit. You can find our coverage of last year’s summit here. While last year’s event was a small come-one-come-all event at Oak & Ore in Oklahoma City’s Plaza District, the […]
Read more "Coming Soon: 2017 Oklahoma Craft Beer Summit"Holy crap are you excited!? OKC Craft Beer Week kicks off Sunday, June 12th, and will culminate with the Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival the following weekend. Oak & Ore is doing this thing right and will be hosting fun local beer events pretty much every day next week. Below is their schedule for the week and […]
Read more "OKC Craft Beer Week is upon us"Lately the Oklahoma IPA scene has been dominated by Roughtail Brewing, with such releases as Everything Rhymes with Orange, fruity E-Juice brews, and their rotating Adaptation Series. Well a new beer is about to hit shelves that may give Oklahoma hop heads a new option. Broken Tile, a juicy Double IPA, is the latest offering from […]
Read more "Vanessa House Broken Tile Double IPA"This is the first American Solera brew I had and that little pour at the Oklahoma Craft Beer Festival wasn’t near enough. That 2oz hit of sour cherry juice got me so excited for the launch of American Solera and I couldn’t wait to bring home my own bottle of Foeder Cerise. So now here I am, […]
Read more "Review: American Solera Foeder Cerise"Earlier this week, Justin and I visited Anthem Brewing Company, located in downtown Oklahoma City, to drink some beer, talk about beer, drink some more beer, and talk about Anthem. We hung out with Patrick, President and Brewmaster, and Ben, Anthem’s Brand Ambassador. I had been on a couple of tours of their facilities and […]
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