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WISN Milwaukee Popular Waukesha brewpub served with search warrant WISN Milwaukee The Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement Unit seized the brewpub's fixture brand kegs, taps and other property as part of an investigation into, in part, failure to pay malt beverage taxes. An affidavit says Fixture Brewing doesn't have a valid brewpub ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Community Beer Company Mosaic IPA. From the Community Beer Company website: “This is not your average IPA.  From the incredible nose, to the amazing finish, this IPA is one that both session drinkers and beer ner ...

TheChronicleHerald.ca Bacon-flavoured beer loses to chamomile at 8th Annual Home Brew-Off Gala TheChronicleHerald.ca Home-brewed suds with some wildly experimental tastes got high marks at Garrison Brewing's 8th Annual Home Brew-Off Gala. The 2016 contest had particular specifications. It had to be an American IPA, with something a lit ...

Baconator Pizza: Tender Belly bacon 3-ways: hop sugar bacon, pepper bacon, herb bacon, sour onions, jalapeños, red sauce The Crafty Fox Taphouse + Pizzeria opened its doors on Saturday, February 20th, to a crowd of curious and excited customers. Among those eager to see what this brand new establishment had to offer was–of c ...

The newly re-branded Alien Brew Pub in Albuquerque’s Uptown area. For this next installment of our Look Back/Look Ahead Series, I talked to brewer/owner Rich Weber of Sierra Blanca/Rio Grande Brewing Company in their (newly re-branded) brewpub location in the Uptown Mall in Albuquerque. He told us of a 2015 with much behind the scenes gro ...

This is a guest post by Thomas Ray, the bar manager at Square Barrels in downtown Honolulu. He recently fulfilled a lifelong (beer-wise at least) dream of tasting the fabled Pliny the Younger from Russian River Brewing Company. This is one of the most hyped beers on the planet and one that people are willing wait in line hours for. Does it liv ...

Today Patrick and I are going to brew a couple batches of beer.* Yesterday we podcasted. You may listen to our disquisition, erudite as always**, on barrel-aged beers. You will hear Cantillon's Jean Van Roy talk about the flavor of old wood, and Samuel Smith's Steve Barrett talk about how to cure a brand-new oak cask. Among, of course, many oth ...

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 plan on ...

getwestlondon Pubs to serve up a treat at real ale festival getwestlondon The festival will feature new, seasonal and speciality beers, including a chocolate beer, wheat beer, cask lager, fruit porter, rye beer and spiced beer as well as a beer brewed with peated malt. In addition, many of the beers are available in the pubs ...

Southport Visiter CAMRA:The Heatons Bridge, Scarisbrick Southport Visiter Many years ago, I used to come out to this canalside pub to admire the view and enjoy the Walkers Bitter, writes Neville Grundy. That particular beer is long gone, but fortunately the Heatons Bridge is still there. It has a car park, an outside ...