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It’s time for May Beer Events! Click here to go to my Monthly Beer Events page to see what’s happening! You’ll find TONS of fun things to do, including events with: The Brewtography Project Epic Brewing Alpine Dog Fiction Crystal Springs Odell Left Hand Cerebral Barley’s Angels Factotum Echo Brewing Nighth ...

Last night, John Harris addressed a packed house at Ecliptic to comment on his 30 years as an Oregon brewer. I mentioned briefly why those 30 years are going to be hard to beat (he is, to use a metaphor from a different field, a first-ballot hall of famer), but I wanted to relay something Sally told John and I yesterday. She was talking to her ...

As I'm going to the grocery store to pick up some of these new Selkirk Abby beers, I noticed that an AARP bus must have broken or something because I was by far the freshest face on the block by at least fifty years. The entire parking lot is full of "blue hairs" driving only Cadillacs, Buicks and Oldsmobiles. I try to park in the first stall I ...

Burton Mail Burton reigns supreme when it comes to real ale – not Sheffield Burton Mail Couple that with a bustling pub scene and an emerging micro-brewery market, then it came as something of a surprise when Sheffield proclaimed itself 'the real ale capital of the world'. A report, commissioned by the University of Sheffield, an ...

Manchester Evening News Derelict Ancoats pub could become real ale destination Manchester Evening News An abandoned Victorian pub on the back streets of historic Ancoats could be turned into a modern-day real ale destination with the help of a £3.5m public loan. The 200-year-old Edinburgh Castle, on Blossom Street, will be transf ...

Grand Rapids–Founders Brewing Co. announced the ninth annual Founders Fest, an outdoor celebration of live music and beer, Saturday, June 18 from 3-11pm. An anticipated 6000+ attendees will make the sojourn to this year’s event, held on Grandville Avenue between Cherry and Bartlett, the streets surrounding the brewery “We&rsq ...

As this pilsner thing bubbled up unexpectedly this week, it revived an idea I've been toying with for a few years. Four or five years ago, as Oregon started to be fertile ground for these really good, classic pilsners, I thought it would be cool to do a blind tasting with the brewers who made them. My inspiration was more journalistic. I though ...

“It has already become a major feature on the HW 14 landscape.” As a result of the many inquiries I get all the time from folks interested in the new expansion at Santa Fe Brewing Co., I recently checked in on New Mexico’s oldest brewery to determine the progress they’re making in the expansion of their new production fa ...

Humans are very  weird. For some strange reason, we have decided that the number 10 is a great base for counting when 12 would have been much better, and for some even stranger reason we find it endlessly fascinating when we’re dealing with so-called “round” numbers – such as the numbers 5, 50 and 500. Imagine my de ...

Saturday June 18th marks the inaugural Nottoway Plantation Beer Festival – A Toast Under the Oaks. Nottoway Plantation is located in White Castle, Louisiana, about 40 minutes south of Baton Rouge. With over 200 different beers to sample, a homebrew competition, live music, and of course good eats, this festival promises to be a great star ...