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Daniel Jaramillo, right, is not laying down on the job, he is just getting a new title, which in turn means La Cumbre needs a new head brewer. (Photo courtesy of La Cumbre’s Facebook page) A quiet Tuesday afternoon was interrupted by multiple online posts regarding a job opening at La Cumbre Brewing. The ad was for a head brewer, which le ...

A lot of people have been waiting a long time for this. Abita first released their Oyster Stout under the Select banner back in November 2011. It was based upon a winning homebrew recipe from a competition they held in the fall of 2010. That Select release was one of the best beers I’ve had from Abita, and many others echoed that sentimen ...

Step it up, DC. History is shaming you on your beer drinking. The volume of beer brewed in DC in 1914 dwarfs 2014 output, and while there are still a few months left in 2015, it looks like we’ll yet again be trumped by brewers a hundred years ago. It’s not even a contest: we are brewing a lot less beer in DC today than we did a cent ...

I'm about to be booted from my Chicago hotel room, so I don't have time to explore this theme in detail, but I wanted to put a bookmark on something. Yesterday I spent a couple hours walking around (and photographing--more on that later, too) the derelict Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee. I keep hearing about how it's been redeveloped or under redeve ...

Yesterday was Pumpkinator release day for the imperial pumpkin stout from Saint Arnold Brewing. And while I wasn’t able to attend any of the release events (Corporate Brew & Draft had both a keg and a cask of Pumpkinator to try side-by-side), I was able to grab a couple of bottles. Naturally, I had to crack one open yesterday evening. ...

Press Release: On October 24th and 25th, JDub’s Brewing Company will host a two-day “Oktoberliner Fest” at the brewery. On Saturday and Sunday, from 2pm-6pm, 20 varieties of Berliner Weiss styles will be available in 6oz serving glasses. The cost … Continue reading →

Anderson Valley Brewing Company is re-introducing themselves to the Salt Lake market with a couple of "get togethers" designed to reacquaint Utahans with their beer. Anderson Vally has been in Utah for quite some time - nearly fifteen years to be exact. The were partially responsible for giving Utah's beer drinkers a good idea of what the taste ...

Santa Fe Brewing Company’s Oktoberfiesta was this last weekend, and as always, it was one big, crazy, fundraiser event! This is my third year in attendance, but it was my first year as event coordinator for Santa Fe Brewing. This was my baby, and along with the help and hard work of so many, this was the best Oktoberfiesta yet! A great de ...

Goshen Brewing Company teaming up with Goshen Homebrew Club Flavor 574 I was not surprised to recently learn Jesse Sensenig, owner/brewer at Goshen Brewing Company (GBCo), is breaking in his new, three-barrel fermenter on a collaboration with the Goshen Homebrew Club. Jesse has been very supportive of the homebrew ...

Somerset County Gazette Wiveliscombe's Exmoor Ales wins CAMRA South-West golden ale category Somerset County Gazette The brewery's managing director Jonathan Price said: "Who would have guessed it - Exmoor Gold winning top prize in the Golden Ale Category not long after we discovered that the new CAMRA beer judging categories would exc ...