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A 4-day festival on the banks of Lake Geneva, organized by the Swiss beer drinkers organization for the 14th year. The ABO is a member organization of the European Beer Consumers Union with about 500 members - but many of them join just to serve at this fete, thereby getting free beer. There are local organizations that have occasional clu ...

Experimental Homebrewing Drew Beechum and Denny Conn Voyageur Press, 240 pages, $25 What is it? A detailed guide to modern American beer types Who's it For? Intermediate-level homebrewersReviewer Disclosure. None (though Denny Conn does live in Oregon). The Review Rare is the homebrew book with a running theme, but Beechum and Conn devised ...

Jon O’Connor and Kyle VanStrien took a long, and detoured, road to opening Grand Rapids’ first distillery. The pair have a passion for local and spirits and it shines through now that Long Road Distillers is open. Join Pat Evans on a conversation with the two passionate Westsiders from Grand Rapids. The post Taking the Long Road: A ...

The Colorado Independent Homebrew: Rand Paul fundraises with marijuana magnates The Colorado Independent Libertarians, light up. Sen. Rand Paul will be fundraising with marijuana tycoons today at the Cannabis Business Summit in Denver. This is the first time a presidential candidate has forged such an unlikely alliance with colorful Co ...

The annual Charleston Beer Week returns to the Holy City for its third annual celebration of craft beer Sept. 13-19, 2015. Last week, the CBW crew launched the week’s new (and mobile-friendly) website – complete with a new logo – and officially opened event and sponsorship registration. The week will consist of 42 events sprea ...

Woodbourne Hotel voted Isle of Man CAMRA Pub of the Year isleofman.com The pub's manager Andrew Harris said: 'Being voted Isle of Man CAMRA Pub of the Year is fantastic news for all the team and something I've been working towards for a good number years. I'm especially delighted that we've had this recognition in 2015, ...

A couple of weeks ago we had the pleasure of letting you know about the release of Epic Brewing's Sour Brainless on Peaches. It got a very limited release in the states where Epic distributes and Utah will will be no different. There will be a few cosmetic changes to the bottle that you will receive in SLC. First: it will be in a 22oz bott ...

I have a 1,200+ word article in the June/July issue of Celebrator Beer News on the 2015 edition of Belgium’s Toer de Geuze. In fact, you might as well call it “Toer de Geuze Weekend” from now one, as there are so many events taking place at the lambic breweries in the days leading up…The post Toer de Geuze article in C ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Modern Times Beer City Of The Dead Stout. I picked this bottle up at The Wine Club in San Jose (here). They have a small craft beer section, but they have an incredible selection.  If you're anywhere near The Wine Club ...

Saccharum officinarum, otherwise known as sugar cane, has been a life blood of the Hawaiian islands for hundreds of years. Over the past two decades the tall weed like grass has slowly disappeared from the gentle slopping hills of each island and so has a unique way of plantation life. I literally grew up surrounded by sugar cane in Waialua an ...