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Lincolnshire Echo Lincolnshire crisps company sponsor CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2016 Lincolnshire Echo A Lincolnshire crisps manufacturer has announced it will be the main sponsor of CAMRA's Good Beer Guide for 2016. Pipers, whose premium crisps have been voted Britain's Best Brand of savoury snacks for the last three years and the best ...

Every summer, the amount of beery events happening everywhere seems to multiply. Over the next few weeks, I'm taking two new event formats out for a spin. Firstly, there's a talk to support my new part-crowdfunded book, What Are You Drinking? If you missed it, this is a new venture with award-winning publishers Unbound, where you can crowdfu ...

I just received word from Gabe Fletcher of Anchorage Brewing Company that tickets for this year's The Culmination Beer Festival will be going on sale this Wednesday, July 22, at 2 PM . There will be only 200 total tickets sold. 150 will be sold from the festival's website(www.theculminationfestival.com), while the other 50 will be sold ...

Hey, have you checked out Commander Palace's beer and BBQ prix fixe dinner yet? Only in July. I'm here at the 2015 Beer Bloggers and Writers Conference in Asheville NC, listening to lots of people talk about how important it is to keep your blog updated with fresh content. And my most recent post is from American Craft Beer Week in early ...

Yeah, the Crew enjoyed this one. From left, Stoutmeister, Adam, Brandon, and Luke. We said it would be a battle to decide the best IPA of 2015. Some scoffed. Some were bewildered. Some guffawed, whatever that means. In the end, though, we were right. This was really, really hard to pick the best out of 15 samples. On a warm, crowded (but not to ...

Highland Brewing Company is going big. We’ve long known Highland to bring quality products to the market – solid, reliable, consistent. I will forever be a fan of their Black Mocha Stout – may I never know a day where it cannot be easily found. While staying true to the core, Head Brewer Hollie Stephenson is taking Highland Br ...

A building that once held the bar responsible for many drunken college nights has now been transformed into a modern, inviting, illuminating barbecue joint. As soon as I walked towards the Vine the smell hit me in the face. No, not the smell of stale piss and vomit that one could get a whiff on a weekend, but the wonderful smell of smoked meats ...

Someone asked me about my favorite beer spots. This made me go all Thrillisty in these warm days of summer. So many places to mention… So I decided to split it up into my five favorite bars, breweries/tasting rooms and shops. First part is about my five favorite bars. Be aware, this is a list of beer cafe’s I really like visiting, ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Wicked Weed Brewery Genesis - Blonde Sour Aged in Tropical Fruits in White Wine Barrels.  I picked this bottle up at Stella Brew (here) in Winston-Salem, NC. They have an excellent selection and we’re very he ...

It's that time of year again here on the Kenai, when about 40,000 folks from Anchorage and the rest of the state descend upon us to claim "their" share of our sockeye salmon run. While it's not the most extreme example in the state (10,000 cruise ship passengers descending daily on Skagway, pop. 850 holds that title), it's still quite jarring w ...