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This would be the preferred location for a craft beer taproom in the UNM Student Union Building. Those darn Millennials. Normally, that is how to start a story about young people these days. This is not one of those days. Instead, it is time to restore hope in the youth of America. That renewal of hope comes from college students like Gus Pedro ...

DCBeer readers, Last August 13, the DC beer scene made history at ChurchKey. As part of DC Beer Week 2015, Logan Circle’s venerable temple to beer, which has hosted so many tap takeovers, brewery launches, and special releases, held an event unlike any it had ever hosted before. This event featured 55 beers brewed in the District of Colum ...

Part two of my Year of Writing Dangerously...* Today my seventh book, The Apple Orchard, hits the shelves (hopefully. Please God let it hit at least some shelves.) When I wrote World's Best Cider in 2013 with Bill, that book required the short, sharp, snappy sections typical of the guide book: 60 words on a cider here, 500 words on th ...

Many cities have their own beer weeks which highlight the best of the local craft beer scene. Traverse City Beer Week, held every November, does just that with its own twist. Traverse City has made its mark on the beer map with over a dozen breweries, hundreds of acres of hops, and one of the top 100 beer bars in the country: there’s plen ...

BREW NEWS: Nearly 100 entries judged for upcoming Tri-State Homebrew Competition at Heritage Station Huntington Herald Dispatch BREW NEWS: Nearly 100 entries judged for upcoming Tri-State Homebrew Competition at Heritage Station. Updated 11 hrs ago; (0). Tri-State Homebrew Competition. Buy Now. The Tri-State Homebrew Competition is set ...

There are only three days left in September and temperatures have started dropping below freezing at night here on the Kenai, so it's definitely time to start thinking about getting ready for winter. I've had a pretty busy time since my last blog post two weeks ago, so let me tell you what I've been up to. First, we hit the Denali Road Lotte ...

Columbus Dispatch Actual Brewing plans brewpub in Clintonville Columbus Dispatch So it shouldn't surprise anyone that the menu at the company's first brewpub will be built around "high-end" sloppy joe sandwiches. Actual, whose brewery and taproom is folded into an anonymous industrial park, is planning to open a brewpub in ...

I was pretty excited when I heard Blackhorse Brewery had gotten a hold of fresh hops and were working towards a fresh hop beer. We’ve been very fortunate in that we have several hop farms in the area and in this particular case, Blackhorse Brewery worked with Kelly Ridge Farms in Meadowview, Virginia to get the Cascade hops used in this b ...

“It depends on the beer category you are producing.  If you try the lager type, the decoction is very important.  We compared decoction versus infusion on our  small-scale brewery; always the beer brewed by the infusion process was emptier in its taste—the body was not correct for the lagers.  Also the color changed.  If you boil durin ...

Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s six breweries and one down in Socorro and one in Los Alamos also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead in Beer. This w ...