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What is quickly becoming the midsummer classic of the Minnesota craft beer scene, All Pints North Summer Brew Fest is entering its fifth year. This festival, held in picturesque Bayfront Festival Park, in Duluth, showcases the finest in brews that make up the Minnesota craft beer universe. Get Your Tickets For All Pints North 2016 appeared firs ...

Fredericksburg.com Foode owners partnering with brewpub coming to Stafford Fredericksburg.com Foode owners partnering with brewpub coming to Stafford. Story · Comments. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: Default font size: Larger font size. Previous Next. Joy Crump. File/Suzanne Carr Rossi/The Free Lance-Star&nbsp ...

Support Your Local Brewery was created by the Brewers Association several years ago as a way to rally grassroots support for the craft beer industries in all 50 states. I first blogged about it over six years ago (2/16/2010) and have mentioned it on occasion since then. However, given the recent push by the governor to double our beer taxes her ...

Over the weekend, a discussion broke out on Facebook that led, as discussions often do, down a little side alley away from the main topic. It got me thinking. In the beer world, we spend countless hours discussing "bests." Beers get the most attention, but breweries get a lot, too. (The Facebook discussion started out with this post about peopl ...

Isle of Man Today Organisers report successful fifth CAMRA real ale festival Isle of Man Today Moving the main beer festival bar to the Royal Hall this year ensured there was plenty of space for customers to spread out and enjoy sampling the array of real ales on offer. Organisers reported the wave of customers that had hit the 2015 ev ...

It was quite the event. Editor’s note: Ever have some serious issues with a particular website? Yeah, Luke feels your pain. After battling with WordPress for the better part of a week, we finally got everything working again for him. Thus, at last, we have his recap of a recent event a little later than planned. — S Recently, James ...

Union may be too strong a word, but we local and unpaid beer writers did get together over some beers. Jay Aber from KC Beer Blog, Sarah from KC Beer Guide, and Alex Workman from Scouting the Taps met at my office to talk blogging, beer, and the state of the Kansas City craft beer scene. And to have a few, too. Roughtail Brewing ...

Part of the fun of thriving craft beer scene are the collaborations breweries sometimes cook up together. Recently, brewers from four different South Carolina breweries in three different parts of the state came together to concoct their second of four collaborative brews, the latest of which will be hitting taps soon. Charleston’s Frothy ...

Now in my second year,  A Whale A Week is my challenge to try (with an array of beer loving friends) a rare beer for every week of the year.  Last year I had a great time with this and have continued it for 2016.  Not every beer will be a truly "white whale" beer, but all are hard to find and a treat to try!  This w ...

The Drinks Business CAMRA takes duty campaign to Strasbourg The Drinks Business CAMRA representatives are travelling to Strasbourg – the home of Alsace brewing – tomorrow to meet Pierre Moscovici, the EU Commissioner responsible for Excise Duty. They will join MEPs Anneliese Dodds and Clare Moody to discuss proposed changes ...