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March is shaping up to be a busy month over at the Kona Brewing Pub on the Big Island. Along with the annual Kona Brewers Festival this weekend, the team from Craft Brewers Alliance (KBC’s parent company) will break ground on its new 100,000-barrel Big Island brewery and canning facility on Friday, March 11. To celebrate the ground ...

Each year, General Distribution's Jim Fick closely tracks the sales of Oregon beer in Oregon, and he very graciously forwards me the spreadsheet with the numbers. The final figures are out for 2015, so we can look at which breweries were selling the most beer here in their home state. (Important note: these figures come from the OLCC and track ...

After providing years of education on beer to craft beer fans who are thirsty for more knowledge (get it?), the Better Beer Society has unveiled a new format to their... Better Beer Society Unveils New Classes for BBSU appeared first on Minnesota Beer Activists. Written by Sean Cooke

The end of last year I discovered Photochallenge.org.  This is a small group of photographers who set forth a weekly challenge to other professional and amateur photographers.  What I was drawn to with this weekly assignment is that is pushes you to try new techniques and get out and take pictures on a weekly basis.  I'm taking ...

Brew-seum Battle of the Brew Homebrew Competition seeks entries Monitor The Battle of the Brew Homebrew Competition is one of many events that celebrate IMAS' Brew-seum Craft Beer Week, which will be held April 5 – April 10th 2016. With the craft beer culture on the rise, Battle of the Brew provides the growing homebrew ...

Syracuse Women of Craft Beer look to redefine beer drinking population The Daily Orange A beer lover since her early 20s, Rakowsky's knowledge and infatuation with the drink only grew with time. And in 2013, she decided she wanted to share her passion with other women and started an organization called Syracuse Women of Craft Beer.

Eater 'St. Louis Brews' Is a New Film About Craft Beer in the Midwest Eater A director in St. Louis is working on a feature-length documentary about craft beer. But not beer in general — this is beer as it relates to the Gateway City, which is on track to have more breweries in 2016 than ever before in the history of the city ...

As you probably have read, New Belgium is coming to NJ. Here are the events we know about broken out by the wholesaler putting them on from North to South. We’ve made our Business Partners bold so you know where to go with your Memberships. Sorry for the different formats, each wholesaler does it differently. Kohler 3/14- Liquor Factory, ...

CultureMap Austin Where to drink right now: 10 best Austin bars for craft beer CultureMap Austin This Tex-Mex Indian gastropub (try saying that five times fast) off I-35 features an excellent craft beer selection with a mix of rare and hard-to-find drafts on tap, mostly from Texan and American breweries. Grab a glass to go along with y ...

The National Business Review Craft beer rivals take bite out of Lion profit The National Business Review Lion – Beer, Spirits and Wine (NZ), New Zealand's largest brewer, posted a 21% decline in full-year earnings as the industry adjusts to a market that's seen a rise in craft beers and where people are choosing to drink less ...