Kick off the new year with Historic Rittenhouse Town!

Tavern NightSaturday, February 8th  Historic Rittenhouse Town Join Historic Rittenhouse Town for Tavern Night! Come join us as the buildings and grounds of our historic 18th-century homestead are transformed into a tavern from the 1770s, where the simple pleasures of good food, drink, and fellowship collide. Tavern Night will feature an evening of storytelling and …

Curaçao

In 1499 the Spanish sent an expedition to the Caribbean island of Curaçao in an attempt to cultivate Seville oranges. Oranges were vital to naval operations in the region as they were used to fight scurvy.  The Seville oranges, however, struggled under the island’s harsh equatorial sun, arid climate, and infertile soil eventually evolving into a small, bitter, …

Baked Apple Wassail

The word “wassail” appears as early as the 8th century in the poem Beowulf. Originally, it was used as salutatory gesture (wassail!) from Old Norse ves heill “be healthy.”  By the 12th Century, Wassail was used as a drinking salutation, similar to the use of “Cheers” or “Probst” today, and his use seems to have …

Hey Brewmeister, why are there all those QR codes on your bottles and kegs?

Okay, I don’t give away bottles but you may have noticed that every bottle and every keg have a QR code on it and its not a SKU because I am not selling beer outside of events and I am not that sophisticated in my inventory management.  So, what are these? Well, brewing beer is, …

The Stone Fence

The Catamount Tavern in the future Old Bennington, served as the headquarters for the Green Mountain Boys.  This militia was formed to resist New York’s attempt to control the New Hampshire Grants which eventually became the State of Vermont after the Revolution.  As these regional skirmishes took a backseat to the broader conflict with Great …

Hunker down for the storm, its coming!

Okay, I pulled the plug on Facebook today.  All Facebook content from the Regimental Brewmeister and Colonial Brewer will disappear on 12/25/24.  I am now posting articles (when I remember, its manual) to BlueSky and I may engage other social media in the future but for now, I am focusing on http://www.colonialbrewer.com and public appearances …

What’s in a Name? Why are Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Virginia called “Commonwealths?”

The United States is made 46 states and 4 commonwealths — Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Kentucky.  While in modern politics, this is an academic distinction, the term “commonwealth” defined as a political entity founded for the good of the people; whereas a “state” existing for the benefit of its citizens. The term UnitedStates, was deliberately …