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PhillyVoice.com Bar Hygge brewpub opens in Spring Garden PhillyVoice.com The owners behind two of the Philadelphia region's more popular restaurants have joined forces on a new brewpub, Bar Hygge, that opened this week in Spring Garden and specializes in original beers and charcuterie-style fare. Tom Baker and Peggy ...

From a press release: Homebrewers in the DC area and across the country are invited to enter the third annual DC Homebrewers Cherry Blossom Competition. This year’s competition will be even larger, with up to 300 entries — 50 more than in years past. Although not officially associated with the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the c ...

So, yeah, it's been almost a month since my last blog. The main thing keeping me away from the keyboard was that I took on a temp job, back at my old haunt, Kenai Peninsula College. Between doing data monkey work there and teaching two classes (including my Art & History of Brewing course), I really haven't been able to squeeze out enough t ...

After four years of faithful service, Chris Goblet is no longer executive director of the NM Brewers Guild. Earlier today (Friday) we posted a link to the Albuquerque Business First story about a change at the top of the New Mexico Brewers Guild. Chris Goblet is out and John Gozigian is in as executive director of the Guild. Goblet had been run ...

We’ll be missing a couple of these smiling faces this year, but we’ll still have plenty of stout. Super Bowl Sunday is almost upon us once again, and while folks will pick between the old (Denver and Peyton) and the new (Carolina and Cam), all of us in the Crew will choose something even more important. Namely, who has the best stou ...

On Wednesday evening, Nat West started uncorking bottles of cider and perry made by Hereford cider-maker Tom Oliver ten years ago. Nat managed to score them a few years back and has had them squirreled away waiting for the right occasion. And what better occasion than the arrival of the cider-maker himself for CiderCon? Tom Oliver (left) and ...

Chicago Tribune Restaurant openings: Forbidden Root brewpub, West African food at Simi's Chicago Tribune Forbidden Root: This West Town botanical brewpub (beers brewed with ingredients such as herbs, flowers, nuts and honey) is scheduled to open its doors Feb. 18 in the former Hub Theater space. It will have 16 beers on tap, including ...

Inherent Weisse: Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew Torontoist After six months of reading home brew books cover to cover I finally got the nerve to pick the equipment needed, along with a cheap hopped malt syrup starter kit. The instructions to make the first batch were fairly simple: Boil water, pour in syrup ...

austin360 (blog) Real Ale, Blacklands Malt team up for collaboration brew austin360 (blog) Real Ale Brewing's latest beer features a special local ingredient — the Leander-malted barley of Blacklands Malt, Texas' only malthouse. Although Blacklands, founded by entrepreneur Brandon Ade, has been supplying the malt for many area br ...

Eat Out Magazine Pub closures fall, but another beer tax cut needed - CAMRA says Eat Out Magazine Tim Page, chief executive of CAMRA, said: “The latest figures show that the work of campaigners across CAMRA, the wider pub and beer industry and the government is taking effect and arresting the decline in the number of pubs being l ...