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KENT COUNTY – Calling all book-loving home brewers: Kent District Library (KDL) has a contest that seeks to combine the passions of reading and brewing. As part of the KDaLe beer series, KDL and Gravel Bottom Craft Brewery and Supply are teaming up to host the “Book-Inspired Brewing” home brewing contest. The contest a ...

GRAND RAPIDS – I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.  Not just your average ice cream though – ice cream beer. Two completely different products, both delivered in a pint, combined forces to support one common goal: to protect our winters against climate change.   New Belgium Brewing Company and Ben & Je ...

THANKSGIVING!!!! Man, I've been so busy writing stories about, like, pairing beer with turkey that I haven't even remembered to forget to update the blog. I was just reading a description of a brewery's winter warmer and realized I kind of hate those beers along with pumpkin spice beers. Christmas/holiday/winter beers are all super dark, ...

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 ...

This week we do an interesting taste-off.  Early on in this series of posts we reviewed the Brandy Barrel version of Hunahpu's Imperial Stout HERE.  For this tasting we first tried Marshal Zhukov's Stout--the base RIS that gets the star treatment to make it into Hunahpu's spiced version.  The bottle I had was from 2011 and was ...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette More Pittsburgh brewpubs and breweries on the way Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Across the region, there are a lot of breweries that are newly open or soon will be that you may not have been to or heard of. One of the latest I first read about in a neighborhood newsletter is the War Streets Brewery, a nanobrewery that ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Avery Brewing Company Liliko'i Kepolo - Belgian-Style White Ale Brewed With Spices & Passionfruit Added. Commercial description: “Adds a tropical island flair to a spicy traditional Witbier, erupting with monument ...

Back in October new restaurant, Box Burger celebrated their launch night in Bray. Being massive fans of casual dining we were gutted we couldn't make it. So for Wayne's birthday we chose to pay a visit. On a chilly Sunday morning we wrapped up and began our journey.Once we arrived in Bray, Box Burger was a short two minute walk from the train s ...

OregonLive.com Breakside Brewery opening new Northwest Portland brewpub OregonLive.com Breakside Brewery, one of Portland's best breweries (as well as a staff favorite), is opening a third location in Northwest Portland next year. The 5,000-square-foot brewpub, located on the corner of N.W. 22nd and Raleigh, next to the new Slabtown Ne ...

Utepils Brewing® today put an end to the suspense surrounding the identity of its head brewer and announced that Eric Harper will be assuming the role. Harper comes to Utepils Brewing® from Summit Brewing Company and is well-known in craft beer circles, winning acclaim and World Beer Cup Gold and Silver medals as part of the Summit Bre ...