Knights of the Mashing Fork

KotMF.com is the online home of the Knights of the Mashing Fork, a Hartford-area homebrewing club whose members are passionate about making and drinking great beer, cider, and mead!

The first guild for brewers, the original Knights of the Mashing Fork was formed in Brabant, Belgium during reign of Duke Jean I (Jan Primus) corrupted today as Gambrinus. He is honored throughout the world as the so-called King of Beer. Legend portrays him as the inventor of the "toast" as a social custom.

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Crooked Stave Petite Sour arrives
(Fort Collins, CO) – Crooked Stave Brewing’s Chad Yakobson shared some details with BeerPulse around his latest release. — We are releasing Petite Sour this week. Quite a lot of conceptualization has gone into the beer and the second incarnation […]
Heineken clears up rumors after dogfight photos surface
If you needed further proof that the Internet never forgets, visit Heineken’s Facebook page, which was plastered for most of the day with pictures of an illegal dogfighting match, apparently from 2011. Though the event is a year old, the […]
Dock Street Brewery holds 750ml bottle release event on May 6th
Press Release: (Philadelphia, PA) – Dock Street Brewery releases a vast selection of limited, hand-bottled, naturally carbonated beers in 750ml format. On Sunday May 6th, we open our doors from noon to 4pm for bottle sales (first come first serve), […]
Convenience store beer sales approach $17 million annually
Press Release: (Washington D.C.) – The Beer Institute released new data today showing beer sales in convenience stores rose by 1.3 percent in 2011 totaling more than $16.7 billion in sales. Convenience stores were responsible for nearly 17 percent of […]
Breckenridge Brewery expands capacity to 75,000 barrels
Press Release: (Denver, CO) – Breckenridge Brewery of Colorado added four more 300-barrel fermenters last week, bringing it’s total capacity to 75,000 barrels. This expansion follows the addition of two 300-barrel tanks and a 200-barrel Brite tank in January. With […]

Karl Strauss Announces Huge Expansion Plans
San Diego, CA – April 19, 2012– San Diego’s oldest operating craft brewer is set to expand distribution into Northern California. For more than two decades, Karl Strauss Brewing Company has shared its handcrafted beers exclusively with Southern Californians. To keep up with double-digit sales ...
New Brew Thursday : Shift : New Belgium Brewing Co.
This week we drink Shift from New Belgium, a pale lager that has historically been a brewery employee only after “Shift” beverage. John wants to go New Belgium and build stuff, Matt’s a liar, and Stephen is likely gonna get stabbed by Dr. Bill, and if you’re playing a drinkin...
Firestone Releases Wookey Jack Black Rye IPA
Paso Robles, CA—From the wilds of Firestone Walker Brewing Company comes Wookey Jack, a new release that Brewmaster Matt Brynildson calls “gnarly on the outside, yet refined on the inside.” Starting today, Wookey Jack is available in 22-ounce bottles in select markets across the United States....
Hops And Heat For Charity At Library Alehouse
El Segundo Brewing, Randy Clemens (author of The Sriracha Cookbook) and Library Alehouse come together to benefit Share Our Strength. Santa Monica, Ca - Beer may be one of the only liquids whose popularity outpaces that of the now ubiquitous, spicy, sweet rooster sauce. It’s only fitting then, th...
FiftyFifty Eclipse 2012 Futures Update ? A few More Limited Bottles for Sale
We’d like to say a huge Thank You to all of the beer fans out there for making this such an exciting time, and also for your persistence with ordering! We’ve had a chance to go through and clean up all of the orders in the system, and it turns out that there were enough duplicates to [...

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