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Nine State Brewery, Citrus County’s newest craft brewery, has been open for a few weeks – since their September “soft opening” for locals and passers-by to stop in and try a few offerings. The brewery’s grand opening is Saturday, November … Continue reading → The post Nine State Brewery finalizes tap l ...

Before we get into New Beer Friday I have some news about one of the state's oldest adult institutions, the Cotton Bottom. If you're not aware, the Cotton Bottom is a tavern located in an area of the City of Holladay known as Knudsen's Corner (6200 s.). The tavern was originally a general store operated by the Knudsen family until 1966 wh ...

The Levis family, including Mike in the white shirt and red shorts, and Ty in the center in the black shirt. (All photos courtesy of Ty Levis) The founding father of the modern New Mexico craft brewing scene, Mike Levis, died two weeks ago in Amarillo, Texas. He started the Santa Fe Brewing Company out of a barn on his horse ranch in Galisteo i ...

Founders Brewing Co. settled a racial discrimination lawsuit with a former employee last week, but not before one Founders manager, named in the lawsuit, claimed in a leaked deposition transcript that they “didn’t really see color.” The Founders’ Director of Diversity and Inclusion then resigned via a harshly worded lett ...

The Brewers Association, the national trade group for craft breweries, helped pass the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA) in 2017, after ten years of effort, as part of the larger Republican tax bill. The legislation lowered the federal excise tax on the first 60,000 barrels (bbl) for breweries producing under 2,000,000 bb ...

Winter 2015: As Adam Ingle of Alliance Brewing Company walked to his car to go home one evening, he could clearly see a note on his car. On a double sided Knox Brew Tours brochure the words, “Brew more beer asshole,” were left in big, black ink. “I knew who wrote it immediately,”(for the record it wasn’t Zack Rosko ...

Congratulations Utah, today is the first day of the rest of your life. One day you'll look into the eyes of your great, great, grand children and tell them of the first day that Utah got 5% beer. I imagine that day will be in the year 2105... I mean it took us 86 years to go from 4% to 5%, so getting to that magical 6% number sh ...

Open since 2016 and ranked one of the fastest-growing breweries in the U.S. in 2018, Miami’s The Tank Brewing Company continues to grow and expand their beer portfolio.  While their taproom is working to provide Miami-Dade with the great beers … Continue reading → The post Miami’s The Tank Brewing Company releases ...

Jacksonville Beach’s Southern Swells Brewing is dropping a new bottle release, this time it is the next in their series of mixed culture fermented beers called Slice: Raspberry Cheesecake. From Southern Swells Brewing: This Friday night (November 1st) we are … Continue reading → The post Southern Swells Brewing to release Sli ...

Press Release: Due South Brewing Company, a Boynton Beach, Florida based craft beer manufacturer that is veteran owned and operated, has released Land, Sea, & Air, an amber ale to help raise funds for Wounded Veterans Relief Fund, a local … Continue reading → The post Due South Brewing Company Releases Land, Sea, & Air To B ...