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The summer of slow blogging continues, and today's anemic offering is a brief rebuttal to this silly article in Slate about sexism, rife in brewing, in which the subhead reads "There are gross puns and derogatory illustrations on far too many beer labels. The misogyny needs to stop." Writer Will Gordon trots through the case of some pretty egre ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Anchor Brewing Company Summer Wheat. From the Anchor Brewing Company website: “The crisp, clean flavors of Anchor Summer® Wheat are refreshingly light, a thirst-quenching American-style filtered wheat beer. Relea ...

On the eve of their second anniversary last week, Greenville’s Quest Brewing Co. began canning their Ellida IPA, the brewery’s only year-round beer to not yet be packaged. Ellida is an 82 IBU, 6.9% West Coast-style IPA brewed with Columbus, Falconers Flight and Zythos hops and five malts and named after a mythical Norse shi ...

Cazuela’s spacious patio was perfect for the event. The weather was absolutely perfect on the patio Saturday at Cazuela’s for the first ABQBeer.com MiniFest. The sky was overcast, but only delivered brief and minimal sprinkles on occasion. My good friend and hop-centric beer tasting companion Paulette and I pulled up to Cazuela&rsqu ...

The Colorado Independent Homebrew: State health insurance exchange to make drastic customer-service ... The Colorado Independent Connect for Health Colorado — the state's health insurance exchange — announced that around half its in-person assistance sites are getting axed this year. Guides who help customers navigate the e ...

Attention Colorado Food & Beverage Small Business Owners: I wanted to pass along some information I received regarding an opportunity to compete for a business grant from Samuel Adams. This virtual competition will allow food and beverage small business owners in Colorado to submit a product sales pitch for a chance to win a $10,000 busines ...

A few weeks ago my wife and I were in Saint Paul and decided to hit a couple of newer taprooms.  The first one we tried out was Tin Whiskers Brewing Company.  I had tried a couple of their beers at last year's All Pints North in Duluth and wasn't incredibly impressed--however, they were recently opened at that time.  I gave the ...

Grand Forks Herald Rhombus Guys Brewing Co. develops beer flavors ahead of brewpub opening Grand Forks Herald Head Brewer Chad Gunderson and the operation's proprietors have inched their way toward developing beers for the downtown brewpub through a number of pilot batches and taste tests over the past few months. Gunderson hopes to ha ...

One of the mountain region's most popular breweries has finally set it's sights on Utah. Oskar Blues was founded in 1997 in Lyons, Co and made a huge impact on the craft beer scene with their phenomenally popular Dale's Pale Ale. The brewery was also one of the first craft breweries in America to embrace cans as their primary packaging back in ...

Mead isn’t mainstream. It’s where beer was in the early 1980s, when breweries like Sierra Nevada and Bell’s Brewery were just getting started. Michigan, however, has one of the hottest scenes, and B. Nektar has established itself as one of the major mead players in the nation. So, MittenBrew traveled to its facility in Ferndal ...