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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 Cigar City Brewing Strawberry Shortcake Lager. From the Cigar City Brewing website: “This beer tastes a lot like Strawberry Shortcake, which is a good thing considering its name.Released every year in celebration of t ...

We’re raffling off a pair of tickets to the upcoming Big Brew festival. Simply leave a comment here with your favorite COLOR to be entered into the contest, but we do have a few simply rules. Must be a valid 2016 Member Must leave a comment in this post on NJCB (other sites won’t be entered) Must not have won anything from NJCB ...

The Herald-News Joliet brew pub developers seek Union Station drawings before starting construction The Herald-News “We were hoping to open in the fall, but that may not happen,” Greg Lesiak told the Joliet City Council on Tuesday as the council approved a lease for the brew pub. Lesiak and business partner Vince Turrise pl ...

Monday Night Brewing (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a maintenance technician to assist 10-20 hrs per week. Start date is immediate. Position is part-time to start. Qualifications and Responsibilities: Broad understanding of mechanical principles Diagnoses malfunctioning equipment such as bottling & kegging equipment, conveyors, augers, trans ...

OT: Homebrewing Hokies The Key Play Any of you fellow homebrewers out there ever entered in the AHA National Homebrew Competition? First timer here, been brewing 8 years finally putting some in, got a Belgian Tripel and an American IPA that I am submitted. Can't wait to hear the feedback.

Joseph Crockett claims he has the best beer job on Oahu and it’s hard to argue with him on that point. Joe has the amazing duty of managing a truly hidden beer gem called the Hideaway Club at the U.S. Coast Guard base at Barbers Point. It’s the kind of bar that you want to spend your weekends at with roll up garage doors to let in ...

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 ...

Late last week, the Massachusetts liquor regulatory agency issued an extremely important ruling about one of the state's distributors. [The distributor] Craft Brewers Guild spent “approximately $120,000 to pay kickbacks to 12 retail licensees throughout the Boston area, and went to great lengths to hide its knowingly unlawful conduct,& ...

This is what people do for beer: they go to a job at in southeast Michigan five days a week, and then, they drive across the state to brew beer all weekend. Jim Schwerin has been living this life since 2004. Along with his wife, Laurie, Schwerin co-owns Schmohz Brewing Company in Grand Rapids. Like many breweries, it all started with a dream. ...

Norfolk Eastern Daily Press Thousands of beer lovers will head to Norwich as city named host of CAMRA's National Winter Ale Festival Norfolk Eastern Daily Press Thousands of beer lovers will head to Norwich as city named host of CAMRA's National Winter Ale Festival. 17:00 17 February 2016. Jessica Long. Norwich is the new home for CAMR ...