[amazon_link asins=’B003QX2JMA,B00P553P1Q’ template=’MT-product-carousel’ store=’modernthirstc-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’d4beaa38-e1a8-11e7-9d88-895303ee13d8′] This is an amazing charity, if you don’t buy a ticket (see below for a link), please check them out regardless! Here’s your chance to win a collection of FIVE bottles of Pappy Van Winkle!!! Other 2nd – 5th Place winners will each receive a bottle of Blanton’s Bourbon. The raffle, hosted by Tousey House Tavern, benefits Dragonfly Foundation and the Mason-Deerfield Rotary Club. Winners will be announced at 7:30pm during Dragonfly’s Night of Couragefundraising event on February 9, 2018 at the Renaissance Cincinnati Downtown Hotel. You do not need to be present to win, but…
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Matt is the Co-Founder and Resident Beermeister of ModernThirst.com. He was born and raised on the west side of Cincinnati. From his humble beginnings as a Burger Light and Hudy Delight drinker, he has developed a palate for some of the America’s best beer, bourbon and wine. He has enjoyed visits to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, and countless breweries. In 2013 he became more serious about homebrewing, and has hopes to continue to expand his brewing hobby. Matt resides in Cincinnati with his wife and two daughters. Twitter @GaterMatt, email Matt@ModernThirst.com.
How does a home brewer turn their hobby into a business? Is craft beer really a craft? Is it realistic to dream of becoming a successful brewer? We set out to answer these and many other beer related questions when Matt sat down with Jonathan Gandolf of Braxton Brewing in Northern Kentucky this month.
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ModernThirst is looking forward to stopping by the 20th Annual Indiana Microbrewers Festival on Saturday. This festival has been recommended to us many times over the past several years, and with the great list of breweries from Indiana and beyond, It looks like it’s a can’t miss festival. Please let us know if you are attending or have thoughts on past festivals. We’d love to hear from you and share a tasting or two with you at the festival. See more details below, or at indianabeerfest.com and #INbeerfest Cheers!! https://vimeo.com/104135784 Check out #INbeerfest on social media to see what your favorite…
When the volks at Schöfferhofer offered to send us some samples of their new summer beer, we obviously obliged. If you’ve read my other beer posts or are friends with me on Untappd, you probably know that while I appreciate nearly all styles of beer, I am primarily a hophead. It is a rare occasion that you will see me drinking a fruit flavored beer. But I certainly gave this a fair shot (after all it was free). Back in college days I certainly could be seen having concoctions called Porch Crawlers or Hop Skip and Go Naked. These were coolers…
By choosing the right combination of sausages, mustards and beer you can turn your next cookout into a ‘Sausage Fest’. Or, you can be a complete dweeb and act like it is 1998 and go buy hamburgers, ketchup and a case of low-calorie and low-taste beer. Here is a grocery list and a pairing strategy that will impress your guests, even the hipsters. Grocery List Mustard Condiments are the glue that keeps your menu together. In this case, it’s the Mustard that will make or break this event. At a minimum, I’d recommend purchasing the 3 essential styles; yellow, spicy…
While The Masters is a tradition unlike any other, and Augusta is a place of legends, the drink selection is not. There are three options, Regular Beer, Light Beer and Import. The prices are very reasonable and while they don’t advertise the brands of beer, I am told that they are Coors Banquet Beer, Miller Lite and Stella Artois.
You were previously tipped to off the Most Sought After Beers of 2015 here, and one of the brews that I was most interested in acquiring actually came to me. It turns out that Phil Wymore, Brewmaster and co-founder of Perenial Artisan Ales, is a fan of ModernThirst. Phil reached out to us and generously offered to send us some of their rare offerings, including the elusive 2014 Barrel Aged Abraxas which is aged in Rittenhouse Rye barrels for 12 months (see our Rittenhouse review here). The specialties included Barrel Aged Mint Chocolate Stout, Sump, Anniversaria, and 4 happiness We are…
This is a photo of the lone 2014 KBS in the ModernThirst compound, It looks so lonely, we must find some friends for him. KBS is a rare offering from Founders that comes out in April, and it is a delicious experience that all beer lovers should have. It comes out in April, so lets see if we can get our hands on some. As Founders themselves describe it: What we’ve got here is an imperial stout brewed with a massive amount of coffee and chocolates, then cave-aged in oak bourbon barrels for an entire year to make sure wonderful…
Hopslam: The much anticipated annual Imperial IPA release from Bell’s is hitting stores in many states this week. This photo is from a 2014 bottle I cellared that I plan on using for a side by side vertical comparison. Let us know if and where you are getting this holy grail for hopheads.