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Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Olde Hickory Brewery The Event Horizon Imperial Stout - Ale Brewed With Honey & Aged In Bourbon Barrels. I picked this bottle up at Stella Brew (here) in Winston-Salem, NC. They have an excellent selection and we’r ...

Going off of some earlier news about Big Grove Breweries 2 year anniversary party on August 29th and the highly anticipated release of Richard the Whale and variants was also the fact that they will be hosting a bottle share: Also on the docket, we’re setting up the bottle-share glassware at 11am, so feel free to stop in with a bottle of ...

Three things for today's shorty post before I head to San Francisco for Beer Bible events. Should you have miraculously not gotten your fill of Beer Bible stuff, let me direct you to my post at All About Beer on why I wrote the book. I can’t answer the most important question people have about this book (“okay, it’s long, ...

Surly Darkness 2013 This week we return to our continuing A Whale A Week series on Surly Brewing's Darkness.  This beer is Surly's take on the Russian Imperial Stout, and was first brewed in 2006, in a very small batch and released in growlers.  I never got to try that first year's release, but at the time it was pret ...

Terry and I spent from May through September driving around the Continent and now it was time to head for warm ol' Enlgand for the winter. Had to decide what were our favorite sights, museums, food, etc. Here's an attempt. Yah, sorta boring but we'll get back to beer news RSN. Favorite Big Cities 1 - Bob) Berlin 1 - Terry) Paris ...

A fair number of people reach out to us here at KnoxBeerSnobs which is pretty cool as we get to meet a lot of new people and hear about some neat breweries, products, plans to take over the world, etc. Some things we hear about could be considered odd, far out eccentric, crazy….we tend to ignore those. Other things are kinda neat and we ...

With the launch of our new site and a resurgence of informative blogging, we are happy to announce another beer class! We’re honored to report that Sodie’s Wine & Spirits in Fort Smith has asked us to conduct an on-site Beer Class August 27, 2015. We’ll discuss the following topics and, even better, we’ll get to tas ...

Here's some of our favorite (and less favorite) bars. Hotel Le Limbourg - Rochefort. Good quiet big rooms with soft beds. A good beer menu including all the Rocheforts. Emphasis is on regional beers. Good food. An interesting street to sit and people-watch. And the run of the place at night with our own key to the front door. Le Bier Circ ...

austin360 (blog) New Saint Arnold beer a nod to Austin's old Celis Brewery austin360 (blog) A Houston brewery has looked back to the very beginning of Texas' craft brewing industry for inspiration while making the latest beer in its rotating limited release series, Icon. Saint Arnold has styled the newest Icon Gold, a Belgian-style wit ...

MLive.com Bearded quartet bringing 'Cellarman's' mead, beer, cider to Hazel Park MLive.com Dubbed "Cellarmen's", the 11,500-square-foot former lumberyard at 24310 John R will hold a tasting room and brewery. The men like mead; it's what they'll be focusing on, canning and distributing along with the cider they'll produce. They'll brew ...