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I've gotten a few odd reactions to the announcement that I'll be working on a biography of Kurt and Rob Widmer for CBA last Friday. Just to be perfectly clear: if I do my job properly, you should notice absolutely no difference here at the blog. I anticipate continuing on as I have the last 11 years, providing you all the quality and objectivit ...

Hello, and welcome to 2017 everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Years, but now it's time to buckle down and face the next twelve months. This seems to be the time when folks make lots of predictions for the upcoming year, so I thought I'd take a stab at a few. First up, the Alaska State Legislature. The circus will be o ...

Anderson’s Carolina Bauernhaus and Charleston’s Freehouse Brewery will release the first bottles of their new collaboration series this weekend. Freehaus, as the series has been dubbed, is a collaboration in which “our breweries are sharing barrels, yeast, and most importantly ideas,” according to a release. Ju ...

Each week, Tony Budny pens SCREAMING INTO THE VOID and looks at the best in writing and social media conversation around the biggest issues in beer. If you feel something should be included, have a tip, or just want to sound off, feel free to look him up on Twitter @DrinksTheThings or email DCBeer. I have finally dragged myself out of bed post- ...

Incoming GM Doug Osborn, outgoing GM Jason Fitzpatrick, and head brewer Nic Boyden. For this edition of our ongoing Look Back/Look Ahead Series, we are focusing on one of the more distant breweries in New Mexico (for most of you, at least). Bathtub Row Brewing (BRB) in Los Alamos has now been in business for over a year and a half, and things a ...

Wakefield CAMRA pub and club of the year revealed Wakefield Express Members of the Wakefield branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) have voted in their dozens to choose the district's best watering hole. And after sampling many a pint at pubs and clubs throughout 2016, they selected the Black Rock as the CAMRA ...

One of the pleasures of doing a podcast with an economist is that occasionally he surprises you. We have long planned to do an episode on the the value of superstar brewers--those folks who have created some of the indelible beers that sell hundreds of thousands of barrels of beer each year. We used local legend John Harris as our example, who ...

Hoppy New Beer...er, Happy New Year! My resolution is to provide lots of great, timely beer stories to you, my dear readers, in 2017. There is no shortage of excellent topics to cover that highlight Montana beer: new breweries, new cans, bigger breweries making more beer, and (unfortunately) breweries that are going through some unplanned chang ...

Apply to make empty Northamptonshire pubs community assets, say Camra Northamptonshire Telegraph Applying to list county pubs which are closed as a community asset could preserve use in the future, says a pressure group. In recent weeks the Northants Telegraph has covered bids to convert the Kings Arms in Desborough into a Costa Coffee ...

We’re too lazy and poor to make anyone a cool trophy like this for winning any of our polls. Sorry. In the week between Christmas and New Year’s, the Crew put out a series of beer polls (you can find them here, here, and here) to see if all of you would vote differently than the readers of Albuquerque The Magazine in its Best o ...