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Jerusalem Brewgarden: Lucky neighbors
Lucky is the person who lives near a home-brewer. If you play your cards right, you shall not lack for good beer. Ron Prigat (left) and Yair Uziel pumping theirhome-brews at the sixth Brewgarden in...
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Ashdod Beer Festival -- August 19-20
I just found out about the Ashdod Beer Festival, which will be held August 19-20 at the Mei-Ami Beach. The only thing I was able to learn from the website and phone number was that this is the fifth...
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Results of the Israel Brews and Views -- Amber Ale Tasting Panel
Our very august and robust Israel Brews and Views Tasting Panel met on a recent summer night to taste and rate seven Israeli-brewed amber ales. We are honored to bring the results to you -- the...
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The Festival Season
There I was, running around like a crazy man in the dog days of August.One week -- The BEERS 2015 Festival in Tel Aviv.One week later -- The Jerusalem Wine Festival.One week later -- The Jerusalem Beer...
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Israel and the Reinheitsgebot
As I wrote previously (here), I was recently honored to greet two important visitors from Europe and show them around Jerusalem and the Beer Festival.Drinking beer in Jerusalem with Conrad Seidl (left)...
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More Fridays at the Glen Whisky Bar -- Part 1
Bartender Shmuel Naky serves the sleevelessold blogger (it was the Middle Eastern summer after all) at the Glen Whisky Bar.(Photo: Mike Horton)Last summer, the Glen Whisky Bar on Shlomzion Hamalka...
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A taste of the gold
The winners of the Sam Adams Longshot competition for home-brewers were announced on the last night of the BEERS Festival in Tel Aviv this past summer. At the time, I promised my readers that I would...
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Three new Israeli beers
For the past two or three years, some of the established Israeli craft breweries have been unveiling new beers at the annual BEERS Festival in Tel Aviv. This year, three of them did so, and by now you...
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Off-the-blog events
It's not healthy to spend too much time glued to the pages of Israel Brews and Views, so I'd like to direct your attention to an online article and an online video which have appeared recently and may...
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My lecture on beer here in the Middle East
I am giving a lecture in English on the origins of beer brewing in the Middle East, including the flowering of Israeli craft beers during the last decade. We will also taste three different styles of...
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New foreign players
To tell the truth, I've never had any interest in following Israeli basketball, neither the local teams nor the national basketball team when it plays in the Euro league. One of the reasons is that...
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New beer specialty store opens in Jerusalem
It may be small in size, but for beer lovers and home-brewers in Jerusalem, it's a giant event.The grand opening of Beerateinu.(Photo: Mike Horton)With the opening of Beerateinu at 3 Yanai Street, the...
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The old blogger's beer lecture
I think more people came to taste the beer than to listen to my lecture, but so what? From the reaction of the crowd (all 30 of them), everybody had a good time, including me.Drinking beer and...
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Herzl Brewery chosen to make collaborative beer in Germany
When Bernhard Purin, Director of the Jewish Museum in Munich, and Conrad Seidl, the "Beer Pope" of Austria, visited Israel last summer, they met with several Israeli craft breweries. Their mission: to...
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Beer Bazaar comes to Jerusalem
Jerusalem must have done something right. A few weeks after the opening of the Beerateinu beer specialty store on Yanai Street, a branch of the Beer Bazaar from Tel Aviv has opened in the Machane...
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Moish Rubinstein's new beer: Making a Highland out of a Hill
My friend Moish Rubinstein took the leap from beer blogger, beer reviewer and beer aficionado to beer brewer. It took guts. The kind of guts that made America great . . . wait, that's for a...
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Beer7 Festival
Somehow or other, I never knew about the "First Annual Beersheva Beer Fest," but I couldn't miss the chatter about the second. I got invitations by e-mail, on Facebook and probably other social media...
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2016 Jack's Winter Ale is here
Just in time for the first blasts of winter, the Shapiro Brewery in Beit Shemesh has brought out the 2016 version of Jack's Winter Ale. This is a strong and dark Belgian-style ale which is perfect for...
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The elusive quest for a Passover beer
Jeremy (Yossi) Sulzbacher came from Antwerp, Belgium, to present me with some of his home-brewed, gluten-free beer. (Well, he was also visiting his three sons who live here, but I was on the short...
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Gift-bearing visitor from Chicago
One of the nicest results of this web log is getting to know fellow beer enthusiasts from all over the world. Sometimes I even meet them. Sometimes they even bring me gifts.Nick Hawkins (right) and...
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