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Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is The Bruery Couverteur - Belgian-Style Ale With Cacao Nibs And Vanilla Beans Added. From The Bruery website: “Couverteur is our spin on the classic Belgian-style dubbel. A beer rich in the monastic tradition of the Bel ...

Man, it has been a busy... (looks at date of last post)... few months. Bypassed the holidays and Mardi Gras, looks like. Oops. Right at the new year, Tom Conklin opened his Chappapeela Farm Brewery. Then Mardi Gras with its various seasonal beers and cans. And riding Nyx with my krewe! (I acquired several beers along the route from ...

I met Andrew Brunson back in December when I visited Kohola Brewery on Maui. Brunson had recently moved to the islands to take up the brewer job at Kohola. It was a huge leap of faith for the Kentucky native. New brewery, thousands of miles away from home and a culturally different place. But Andrew was beyond stoked to be in Hawaii and brewin ...

Next time you’re in AVL you might want to check this out. Excited for these guys! —————————–PRESS RELEASE—————————– Green Man Brewery’s Expansion Grand Opening The time has finally come for the much-anticipated thi ...

Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and a pair of newcomers, one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos, also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle T ...

Press Release: Due South Brewing Co. has announced an expansion of their current facility, annexing 12,000 additional square feet of the adjacent bay. Combined, Due South will total over 27,000 square feet. Open to the public since 2012, Due South … Continue reading →

Saltwater Brewery, a micro-brewery with tasting room, today announced a partnership with Florida Distributing Company (FDC) and J.J. Taylor Companies, Inc. (J.J. Taylor), expanding distribution to Tampa, Orlando and the surrounding areas, as well as the market launch of its … Continue reading →

Press Release: Funky Buddha Brewery, based in Oakland Park, Florida has announced its 2016 release schedule. This long-awaited lineup will include a new year-round beer to add to the brewery’s portfolio of boundary-pushing craft brews, in addition to a whole … Continue reading →

Remember Snap Down Header from Wasatch? It was an Indian Pale Lager that hit our market in May of 2014. it was a nice herbal/spicy heavily hopped lager that was a nice draft option for quite some time. Well, you can for get it. Everything about it is about to change - and that's not necessarily a bad thing. •Gone is the old soccer th ...

Financial Times Let's raise a (smart) glass of real ale to the internet of alcohol Financial Times Perhaps digitised drinking was an inevitable development, given the millennial-hipster crowd's intersecting interests in technology and craft ale. There are, for example, machines such as Brewbot, a smart personal microbrewery the size of ...