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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 Wasatch Brewery Polygamy Nitro Porter. My sister brought me this beer (and others) when she drove through Utah. From the Wasatch Brewery website: “She's on Nitro!Meet the sister-wife of our classic brew. This nitrogen ...

The 4th annual Brew-BQ is happening at the 17th street farmer's market in RVA on Sunday 12pm - 5pm. The event is free to attend. Beer tasters are $2, and a full pour is $6. The Richmond Times-Dispatch posted the local beer list here. For convenience, I'll list it as well: Extra Billy's – Citra Ass down IPATriple Crossing - Falcon SmashS ...

Surly Darkness 2012 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 pr ...

Yup, we have another home brewer in the Crew.From a wish to an idea to the bottled goodness we call beer, this is my tale concerning how I became a home brewer and the adventures I’ve had along the way. Twenty years ago I was in my parents’ home wondering what in the blazes was this odd aroma coming from the kitchen. My father, who ...

Owning a new car is pleasurable and exciting--but it comes with an undercurrent of anxiety. You see it sitting out there on the street, and it looks like a magnet for mayhem. Anything could happen to it. You find yourself watching over it like a hen minds her eggs. Eventually, though, something does happen--a rock chips the paint, someone rams ...

Last weekend my husband and I took a little road trip to Fairplay, Colorado. We had been meaning to check out historic South Park City for some time, so we were looking forward to a fun afternoon. And, being a beer blogger, naturally I had to add South Park Brewing to our itinerary. After a couple hours in the car we we ...

Southport Visiter CAMRA: A Tour of Waterloo pubs – part three Southport Visiter In Birkdale a CAMRA meeting was held last week at the Up Steps, recently re-opened after a lengthy closure, and the pub was pleasantly busy, with a house beer from Thwaites appropriately named Up Steps Ale, plus Wainwright from the same brewer and a&n ...

The DCBW Daily Report offers all of the information you need to have the best DC Beer Week 2015! DCBW 2015 runs from August 9-16. Find more information at www.dcbeerweek.net! Welcome to the fifth day of DC Beer Week 2015! Check out the great events going on today! TODAY’S MARQUEE EVENT! History will be made tonight. Prepare yourself. Ton ...

It looks like Epic's new high ABV growlers were a big success last week. The Hopulent nearly sold out by Friday. This week's growler offering will be a one of a kind - never to be made again, Belgian style golden ale. This beer is an experimental base beer that may be part of a new up and coming label for a new brand. These beers a typicall ...

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 ...