Author Archives: Tony Bellatto

About Tony Bellatto

WSET Certified Advanced Sommelier/ Wine Instructor,Youngstown State University/ Owner , www.thehavanahouse.com/ Columnist at Cigars In Review Magazine/

What is a Beer Pipeline and How Can You Can Use it to Your Advantage

Reblogged from Cork and Kegs: After spending way too much money on craft beer the past year, I had quite the revelation that this beer making thing could eventually lead me to save money (gasp).  I figured if spend 9-11 dollars on a six pack of something tasty from the store and would go through around [...]

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2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 13,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many [...]

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What is an IPA? Infographic

The Story behind IPA is an interesting one.  To understand IPA we first have to understand the hop, the rest will fall into place after we discuss the preservative nature of hops.  Hops are composed of two major acids.  Alpha Acid, and Beta Acid.  Alpha acid is slightly responsible for preventing bacterial growth in the [...]

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Interview With Rocky Patel

Recently, I had the rare, and wonderful opportunity to sit down with a new icon in the cigar business, a man that made it possible for small, independent, non-cuban individuals to blend and make premium cigars.  A man who broke the limits of cigar marketing, and a man that everyone who has ever smoked a [...]

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Exclusive Interview with Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione, Part I: Whiskey Plans, Buyout Offers from the Big Boys and the Struggle to Stay Privately-Owned

Reblogged from Beer & Whiskey Brothers Blog: Don and I were lucky enough to get a 30 minute phone interview with Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione,  I started to transcribe the interview and realized that it was way too much content for a single post, so I’ve decided to break it into two parts.  Plus [...]

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The Wonders of "Mug Clubs"

Reblogged from The Thirsty Wench: I really got a kick out of hearing about this.  Reader Mike Townsend just graduated to a dead author “mug club” at Bukowski’s Tavern in Boston.  The Challenge? Drink 136 beers in 180 days.  You have to pay for the drinks yourself and the beers you drink will be marked [...]

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Hops, IBU formulas, and Alpha Acid, Infograph style

This is a greeeat Infographic poster for those that are getting into homebrew, as well as for those that have been at it for a while.  You can print it and put it in your la-bor-a-tory for reference while making your recipes and deciding what hops to use as well as were they stand on [...]

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The Conception of Wine, infographic

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Havana House Featured on Your Beer Network!!!

Havana House on Your Beer Network!!!!

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Youngstown Business Journal Features Havana House!!!!

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