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Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Lakewood Brewing Company Mole Temptress - Imperial Milk Stout - Ale Brewed With Lactose Sugar And Vanilla With Chilies, Cacao And Cinnamon. I picked up this bottle while in Texas at Hall’s Wine & Spirits (here) whi ...

Get off the couch and head southwest this weekend. Toad Fest, the street festival hosted by Little Toad Creek in Silver City, will not only feature live music and other fun this Saturday, but it will have 12 other New Mexico breweries serving up 20 different, unique beers. The list, as provided to us by the NM Brewers Guild. Abbey: Monks’ ...

Spring has sprung. The trees are in bloom, birds are warbling, the days are getting longer–all welcome signs that warmer weather is on the way. It’s the time of year when our thoughts turn to clear skies, blossoming flowers, and fresh fruit. We are anxious to get out, have fun, and soak up some sun. For beer drinkers this mea ...

Will Brennand samples the beers at Red Door that they brewed since he left to pursue a masters degree in England. Albuquerque native Will Brennand is just a few months shy of his masters degree. This is not a typical masters degree, or else why would we be writing about it? Will is majoring in brewing in a project at the University of Nottingha ...

For this Friday, before I follow the course of the mighty Columbia to the sea, I leave you with some tasty morsels for the weekend. First up: a brand new pod! On this week's episode, Patrick and I walk through a beer tasting to illustrate just how much you can learn about the ingredients and process from your senses alone. It is of course also ...

On deck this evening we have another excellent beer from our friends in Crozet, Virginia; Daily Grind Peppercorn Farmhouse Ale. We’re coming out of my favorite season – winter warmers, porters, stouts so I’m always a bit hesitant when the spring beer starts rolling in. However, as the weather warms and the color palate of natu ...

Trail Point is, dare I say, on the right path. Walking into the brewery for my first time I immediately, genuinely, feel at home. From the driftwood tap handles to the outdoor patio, to the high ceilings and the tucked away dart board, the whole place had a vibe that encouraged the act of sitting for hours with friends and passing the time wit ...

Vancity Buzz Cheers! Automatic homebrew machine designed by SFU students Vancity Buzz A group of SFU students have banded together to create Canada's first automated homebrewing machine – the Keurig of craft beer. The team of business and mechatronics students says the “Brewstr” will allow craft beer enthusiasts that ...

With the third annual Greenville Craft Beer Week just around the corner, Greenville’s own Quest Brewing Co. and Community Tap beer and wine store will be releasing the brewery’s first-ever bottled sour on April 21. Elegast is a Robin Hood-esque character who is the subject of a Medieval Dutch epic poem. But in this context, ...

I have two random little bits here that don't amount to posts by themselves--but with a bit of baling wire and a squint we can make them appear to demonstrate some larger point. Bear with me. (Don't you always?) The first random bit comes from The Atlantic, in a post about elections and game theory by Andrew McGill. He uses the following exa ...