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Richard Drawdy here reporting on behalf of the SoDakBeer Blog. I’ve noticed that beer fans are always looking for what’s new and the best way to find out what’s new is to go to the publicly available TTB Label Approval Website. Since searching through the site can be cumbersome without some effort, I went ahead and did it for ...

This year I've been widening my arsenal of beverage choices by adding cocktails to my repertoir.  I bought a couple of classic books on the subject and have been working my way through those, trying to get a feel for mixology standards, as well as deciding what type of mixed drinks that I like.  I've also been experimenting on my wi ...

Many of you have been enjoying Epic's Session Series Sour IPA for the past few months - sour beers are big locally and this one has proven to be one of the best sellers for Epic's session line. However I know that many of you need a little extra "umph" in your beer to make your mouth and brain happy. So I'm happy to announce that Epic's Tart ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Lost Coast Brewery Sharkinator White IPA. From the Lost Coast Brewery website: “Sharkinator is the hip brother of Great White. Well, maybe hop brother would be a better description. Sharkinator is our Great White take ...

For decades, folks in Denver have been tracking the growth of craft beer and the size of American craft breweries, and each year the Brewers Association releases figures on both. This has become an increasingly difficult exercise in recent years, however, because many of the flagship breweries making craft beer have changed their organizational ...

This is a guest post by Thom Cornog from Paradise Beverages. As I recently profiled, Thom is responsible for overseeing a ton craft beer brands here in Hawaii. One of them, Rogue Brewing, has had a long and intimate relationship with Hawaii. It was one of the first consistently available domestic craft breweries here in Hawaii with classics li ...

In Dongli Brewery Shangdi Embraces its First Brewpub The Beijinger (blog) The decorative theme, as with many of Beijing's brewpubs, is industrial. The first thing you'll notice upon entering are the seven, 500-liter fermentation tanks on your right. Brewer Li Junhao, who previously worked with Arrow Factory, said, “The best ...

Raw Story Goodbye vodka? Russians toast to a craft beer revolution Raw Story Bearded hipsters and bespectacled 20-somethings sip pale ales and dark stouts at Garden Beer, one of Moscow's new craft beer bars serving “made in Russia” brews to an increasingly discerning clientele. While the craft beer revolution swept North .. ...

Boston.com Narragansett is bringing its brewery back to Rhode Island Boston.com Naragansett beer is “finally coming home.” The company is opening a Pawtucket, Rhode Island, brewery, which will open to the public later this year, according to an open letter on Sunday from the company's president Mark Hellendrung. The 125-yea ...

Philly-Based Brewery Scores $25K Grant for Taproom, Plans Expansion Outside of Philly NBC 10 Philadelphia A local brewery, which has plans of expanding within Philadelphia and also outside the city, has received a business-expansion grant that will go toward the completion of its upcoming on-site taproom. St. Benjamin Brewing Co., a Sou ...