MorningAdvertiser.co.uk CAMRA report: people who visit local pub are happier, have more friends & are more satisfied MorningAdvertiser.co.uk The research, carried out by professor of evolutionary biology Robin Dunbar on behalf of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), found that people who counted themselves as having a local pub were ...
Read More »Podcast Episode Fifteen – How to be a "Beer Pornographer" and a look forward to Alltech Brews & Food 2016
This week sees the first Irish Beer Snob podcast episode with a live guest recording alongside our Intrepid Duo. We have Instagram legend, Pierce Cooney of @Son0vaGun (https://www.instagram.com/son0vagun/ ) to share his tips for excellent Instagram Beer Photography. We also visited McHugh's Off Licence in Kilbarrack, Dublin for ...
Read More »Tennessee Winter Beer Festival | February 27th, 2016
It’s hard to believe that this is the 5th Tennessee Winter Beer Festival (TNWBF)! Wow, how time flies. We’ve had the privileged of being involved with the TNWBF since it’s inception, which, oddly enough, started with Mike Adams, formally of The Market in Maryville, simply stating that he wanted to do a beer festival. So we gat ...
Read More »Edinburgh Beer Weekly 25/01 – 31/01
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Read More »Marks of the Modern Era: Hop Breeding
Looking back on a decade of blogging, one of the biggest revolutions has been the emergence of hops as the central player in craft brewing--a phenomenon that stretches all across the globe. This has been driven by a couple things. First and foremost--and the subject of a future post--the way in which beer styles have evolved to take advan ...
Read More »Kaktus kicks it up a notch with a new taproom and more
Kaktus’ new Nob Hill taproom has been a hit. My latest story for our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series took me to two different towns. That is what happens when Kaktus Brewing moves out of just their cozy space in Bernalillo and opens a taproom in Nob Hill. That alone was the big move of 2015 for Kaktus, but it was far from the only stor ...
Read More »Beer Careers
Yes, we all know you have always wanted to work in a brewery. Here is your chance. The beer industry is growing in Minnesota and across the nation. That growth brings jobs and opportunity. Good luck in your endeavors, just please don't waste the time of people making delicious beer by applying if you are not qualified. Beer Careers appeared fir ...
Read More »Almanac Beer Company Cerise Sour Blond – Ale Brewed With Cherries And Aged In Wine Barrels
Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Almanac Beer Company Cerise Sour Blond - Ale Brewed With Cherries And Aged In Wine Barrels. From the Almanac Beer Company website: “This beer is inspired by the long and hot summer days in the San Joaquin Valley&mdash ...
Read More »Locals win Homebrew Club of the Year
Beach Reporter Locals win Homebrew Club of the Year Beach Reporter Along with his wife, Christy, the two began brewing and eventually joined the Strand Homebrewers Club, which recently won the Anchor California Homebrew Club of the Year. They were up against some stiff competition from larger clubs. The LA-based ...
Read More »Westbrook revives Bearded Farmer saison series
A few years ago, Westbrook launched its Bearded Farmer series of saisons, in which the brewery made “each successive beer a little (or a lot) differently than the ones before it.” This week marked the return of the series with its first release since since 2013. Thornhill, the fifth Bearded Farmer entry, is a 6.3% tart ...
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