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As St Patrick's day is drawing ever closer I thought now would be as good a time as any to try Jack Cody's Hail Glorious St Patrick Extra Stout. I'm already a big fan of their amber ale Smiggy! I was delighted when they recently sent me a couple of bottles and a branded glass in exchange for some thoughts on this new stout recipe. It was orig ...

Last weekend, the ranks of U.S. breweries producing spontaneously fermented beers grew by one. On Friday, March 4, The highly-anticipated The Veil Brewing Company of Richmond, Virginia, fired up its Premier Stainless Systems brewhouse, and its specially built, 15-barrel coolship. The Veil Brewing Company is located at 1301 Roseneath Road, in t ...

   Montana's 65th brewery of the modern era, Backslope Brewing, has finally opened in Columbia Falls.  A couple of years ago we had a brewery, but alas, it was short lived and many dreams were dashed and hearts broken.  I'm not here to lament over that, but rather to sing the praises of Darin and Carla Fisher's dream of op ...

There is an ancient debate among beer geeks about "forced scarcity"--the idea that breweries do special releases of special beers in limited volume just so they can charge twice the money for it. Riffing in part on a discussion we recently had on the Beervana Podcast, Bryan Roth runs down the main points. He even uses one of my quotes from the ...

Green Mountain Mashers announces the 25th Annual Greg Noonan Memorial Homebrew Competition vtdigger.org Burlington, VT – Presented by the Green Mountain Mashers Homebrew Club, the 25th Annual Greg Noonan Memorial Homebrew Competition will be held on Saturday, April 30, 2016 in South Burlington, Vermont. In its 25th year, this even ...

As some of you may already have heard, Elk Brewing is expanding. The sudsy city of Grand Rapids contains yet another brewery with eyes growing larger at the prospect of snagging a good location and introducing more of their product into the market. Eric Karns, co-owner of Elk Brewing, is expanding the brewery into a second location in Comst ...

There's a huge entry in to our market this week - on top of a new brewery's debut. It a good New Beer Friday. Park City Nitro Oatmeal Coffee Stout - Not tried this yet. Made with Park City Roasters Coffee. 4.0% ABV @ Park City Brewery Mountain West 7 Mile Cider - Not tried this yet. Release date is tomorrow (Saturday March 26) Describ ...

Foeder for Thought, hosted by Green Bench Brewing Company, has been selling tickets for over a week now, and the taplist and details are now available, as are tickets. From Green Bench Brewing: Foeder for Thought is a celebration of … Continue reading →

The latest brewery to open in the Charleston area comes to Johns Island this weekend as Low Tide Brewing holds its grand opening this Saturday, March 12. Low Tide Brewing (2863 Maybank Highway) will house a 10 BBL brewhouse with five 20 BBL fermenters. They’ve documented their construction online extensively since late last year ...

Columbia’s River Rat blows out an extra candle on its birthday cake this weekend as the Shop Road brewery celebrates its second anniversary with an “Everyone’s a VIP”-style party. The past year has been a big one for the Capital City’s second production brewery. They’ve expanded their food offerings thanks to ...