We are well into January, so that means it's time to start talking about Alaska Beer Week. Taking place during the week before the Great Alaska Beer & Barley Wine Festival, this celebration has grown rapidly over the last few years, to the point now that I could easily spend this entire blog just recapitulating all the different events taki ...
Read More »Craft Beer Trends to Look Out For in 2016
Fortune Craft Beer Trends to Look Out For in 2016 Fortune One of the most exciting things about the craft beer world is its constant evolution. While there are certain flagships most breweries offer – like an IPA, a good porter or stout, or a solid Kolsch – there's an ongoing sense of experimentation that ... Careers in Be ...
Read More »Brew pub opens location
Brew pub opens location Leader-Telegram The warehouse is about 10 times larger than their current brewery and tap room and offers the possibility of a tap room overlooking the Chippewa River. Northwoods Brew Pub & Grill has relocated from its longtime location on the south side of Eau Claire ...
Read More »Brewery proving they’re about more than being 1st women-owned
KARE Brewery proving they're about more than being 1st women-owned KARE Loch is the head brewer but has since hired on help as business has expanded. “We didn't know we were the first women-owned brewery until the state told us when we applied for our license,” Pavlek says. “I was like really? This is 2016.” The ...
Read More »Birds Fly South brewery stakes claim west of downtown Greenville
Birds Fly South brewery stakes claim west of downtown Greenville Greenville News The fledgling brewery project Birds Fly South has found its home in Greenville, staking claim to an old cotton warehouse west of downtown Greenville. Owner and brewer Shawn Johnson had been looking for months for the right space as the Birds Fly South ...
Read More »Avast, Victory at Sea day sails toward us later this month
Brace yourselves, for victory is ours! Earlier today (Friday), we teased the upcoming Victory at Sea Day, a collaborative effort between the Brew Crew and Ballast Point to bring you some awesome variants of this massively wonderful beer. Well, as you can see from the above poster, there will be some epic versions on tap Saturday, Jan. 30, start ...
Read More »Lunacy toasts one year of craft beer
Cherry Hill Courier Post Lunacy toasts one year of craft beer Cherry Hill Courier Post Giving away a prize every 30 minutes is a pretty good way to get folks to come out to your party. So is serving up local craft beer. Lunacy Brewing Company in Magnolia will be doing both on Saturday, Jan. 16, when it celebrates its first year in busi ...
Read More »PicoBrew Brings The World’s Craft Beer To Your Kitchen
iDigitalTimes.com PicoBrew Brings The World's Craft Beer To Your Kitchen iDigitalTimes.com Beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the United States — the billion-dollar industry produced 224 million hectoliters of beer last year and a poll from the Brewers Association found that the craft beer business is steadily growing ...
Read More »A Long-Winded Way of Saying: Quit Counting Breweries
On Tuesday, in one of my least-viral posts in recent history, I pointed out that assessing countries based only on the growth in number of new breweries gives you a limited perspective. It's better if you also consider existing breweries and total beer production. Germany produces a ton of beer and still managed to support 1,300+ breweries, so ...
Read More »A new brewery partnership emerges by Happenstance
Distillery 365 has entered into a new partnership which means more beer. Huzzah! (All photos by the awesome Mario Caldwell) A while back we heard rumors of a brewing operation moving into the Los Ranchos area. The rumor was never confirmed, we heard nothing more, and went back to work. It turns out that a combined brewery/distillery operation n ...
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