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Press Release: On August 22nd, at 1pm JDub’s Brewing Company will release approximately 250 bottles of the much anticipated and extremely limited, “American Wild” Barley Wine. This beer was aged in a George Dickel barrel for 6 months that was … Continue reading →

Photo courtesy of Blue Corn Brewery. From Left: Ymanda Chavez, Nick Richardson, James Warren, and Gustavo Azurdia. Recently, Blue Corn Brewery lost an incredible manager in Gustavo Azurdia. He left amicably for a more personal business venture, but when I learned of his departure, I began to worry about the future state of craft beer at one of ...

The news came out last night that Fred Eckhardt had passed away after 89 amazing, vivid years of life. He was a Marine and World War II veteran, swimming teacher, Buddhist, sake promoter, and of course, "the dean of American beer writers." He was, until perhaps his 84th year of life or so, a constant presence at beer events around the city--man ...

Low ABV sour beers are a hot commodity in the market right now. They work well with our state's draft beer constrictions and their popularity among craft beer drinkers is on the rise. Many locals have been looking to such sour beers as the Annex's Berliner Weiss, Sour IPA - Avenues Proper's Gose The Gozarian - Uinta's Birthday Suit ales and the ...

Howdy gang! Check out this press release on the Knoxville Noodle Bowl Festival below. Note that our friends at Hexagon Brewing Company, Alliance Brewing Company, Pretentious Beer Glass Company, The Casual Pint Fountain City AND Olde Hickory Brewery will be on hand. Sound like a great time and a great cause – check out the details below. C ...

Norfolk Eastern Daily Press CAMRA increases its efforts to save Norfolk's pubs amid closures Norfolk Eastern Daily Press Ian Stamp, pub campaigns coordinator for the Norfolk and Norwich CAMRA branch, said: “We've stepped up our efforts hugely in the last couple of months, and have a target of nominating 100 pubs this year out of ...

The Schaefer family has been growing in the apple business since 1855. Last year, their commercial farm produced 300,000 bushels of apples. As is the case with most commercial farms, many of those bushels went to waste. One hundred thousand Schaefer apples too ugly or too large to put on the fresh market were thrown away. Watching this happen o ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Knee Deep Brewing Company Wet Wittee Belgian-Style White Ale. From the Knee Deep Brewing Company website: “Belgian-Style White Ale brewed with Spices”.Let’s get started!Appearance: Pours a pale golden yell ...

Swamp Cabbage, Columbia’s third production brewery, will host a daylong anniversary party this Sunday, Aug. 16, to celebrate their first year of brewing in the Capital City. From 1-8 PM, the brewery – located at 921 Brookwood Drive in Columbia – will host its first anniversary party featuring local food trucks and musical acts ...

Following up on last week’s announcement of new packaging and branding for many of their releases, COAST has disclosed the new can design for one of their most popular offerings: Boy King DIPA. (Go ahead and process the fact Boy King is coming to cans. I’ll wait … ) Last week, COAST announced its Dead Arm Pale ...