by Jeff Maisey | Apr 21, 2016 | News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey Cogans North Pizza will host a Norfolk NATO Festival after party Saturday, April 23 as a fun way to commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the The Reinheitsgebot — German Purity Law of Brewing. Cogans North will feature a commemorative beer brewed...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 21, 2016 | Beer News, News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey April 23 marks the 500th anniversary of the Reinheitsgebot, famously known as the German Purity Law regulating the ingredients used in the production of beer. Those ingredients, of course, are water, barley and hops. The original purpose was to prevent...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 21, 2016 | Beer News, Drink
By Jeff Maisey You could say April 23 is not only England’s national day it’s also a banner date at one Hampton brewery. Yep, St. George’s Day. St. George is the patron saint of both England and Germany. When the brewery got its start some 20 years ago, owner William...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 19, 2016 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
By Betsy DiJulio James Warwick Jones, gallery manager of Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, took an hour or so to engage with me via email about “Artists Who Teach,” the Center’s current exhibition. As a practicing artist, teacher, and curator, Jones brings a...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 19, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music
By Jim Newsom John McCutcheon has a hit with his latest recording, Joe Hill’s Last Will. “I did a Kickstarter campaign,” he told me recently, “because I knew I was mounting the least commercial album of my career. None of these songs are less than a hundred...