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Brewery Vivant , known for its unique Belgian­-American styles of beers, welcomes another GR Beer Week and hoards of craft beer fans to Beer City USA with it’s annual Brewer’s Big Breakfast. The Pub opens its doors early once a year ­­the Saturday of Winter Beer Fest­­ for breakfast. February 27, from 8am to 2pm, ...

For this past chilly February Jack Of All Brews homebrew club meeting, we tried something new as a special tasting event.  Last year I saw some tweets and facebook posts about pairing craft beer with the highly anticipated yearly release of Girl Scout cookies and was intrigued.  This year we decided to try this as a club event, and ...

Beer fans who like when their beverages make them sweat are about to have a pretty good Monday. Flying Dog has announced a number of beers that are intended to be consumed while hot feature chili peppers. It turns out brewmaster Matt Brophy is "a total hothead," according to a press release. Rather than take that out on townies i ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Schneider Weisse Tap X Aventinus Cuvee Barrique. Commercial description: “In 2010, Han-Peter Drexler started a new project maturing some of his finest beers in wine barrels. A new delicious beer was created. Aventinus ...

Treebeard, Guardian of the Beers! 942 in the glass. Recently, Dominic Lombard, an Irish man, who is a Beer Sommelier, living in Spain got in touch and asked would we be interested in sampling some beers from a Brewery he know's called Dougall's.  From the Cantabria region of Northern Spain, the brewer Andrew set up shop in 2006 to br ...

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Like coffee beans to an overly fragranced nose, the pretzel has often been used to cleanse the palate between beers. Traditionally, the history of the pretzel dates back to the 600s with monks giving pretzels to young pupils as rewards for remembering prayers. Others may say the shape represents someone folding their arms in prayer. Like a lot ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Great Divide Brewing Company Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout - Stout Aged on Oak Chips with Cocoa Nibs and Spices Added - bottled on April 9, 2013. From the Great Divide Brewing Company website: “CHOCOLATE OAK ...

Oregon Beer Awards Revolution Hall (1300 SE Stark St, # 110) Tuesday, Feb 23, 5:30pm $15 tickets include beer and snacks | Full details For decades, Americans have been trying to judge their beers. The Great American Beer Festival dates back, amazingly, to 1982. Homebrew competitions predate that by four years. As the decades have piled ...

Label of ‘t Uiltje’s “Met Je Cascade Groene Trui”. Taken from Harry Pinkster’s WebsiteThis blog owes much of its existence of me translating websites and beer labels for American friends. So why not start a blog about Dutch beer but in English I thought! In five years information has become better and sites are now ...