Not only is this the first day of fall, but it is also the beginning of Oktoberfest. To celebrate, enjoy the following beer related articles to ponder this weekend.  

As this Food Network piece suggests, if you can’t get to German for Oktoberfest, improve these 8 dishes with beer. Somehow the Beer Can Chicken seems both intriguing and obscene.

For all six of my regular readers, you know I’m trying to lose some weight. I pulled this one out of the archives to help estimate calories in beers – An Easy Way to Estimate Calories in Craft Beer. Speaking of beer and health, Wine, Beer, and Chocolate are linked to longer living.

Denizens Brewing Company in Silver Spring is holding their 4th annual Make It Funky Wild Beer Festival on September 29th from 1-5 pm. Read co-owner Julie Verratti’s take on the festival.

Monkton has a new brewery – Inverness Brewing. This Baltimore Maryland brewery grows its own hops for brewing.

Cheers!

Warren