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Developer proposes Paw Paw brew pub Herald Palladium PAW PAW - Paw Paw stands to join the growing list of communities to host microbreweries. The Van Buren County Board of Commissioners has given informal support for a possible Michigan Department of Environmental Quality loan for a brownfield project ...

The latest podcast is now live. Today Patrick and I discuss the very welcome emergence of lagers in the craft beer sphere. Also, in case you missed it, I have a new post up over at All About Beer. It's part of my "quirks of brewing" series. We started things out with parti-gyle brewing, and this week we go to the importance of the ferulic ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Golden Road Brewing Back Home Gingerbread Stout.  I picked this can 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 ...

Breckenridge Brewery Vanilla Porter Second Home Kitchen + Bar recently rolled out its Spring & Summer menu with some delightful new additions. I stopped in for dinner and drinks to try out some of the seasonal fare. But first up: beer! Housemade Tater Tots with chipotle ketchup + malt mayo While Second Home doesn’t have any beer ...

Come to the BRB Grand Opening celebration! Greetings, gang! As you all should know by now, Bathtub Row Brewing in Los Alamos had a “soft” opening several weeks ago. The place has been a very welcome addition to the local beer scene (which basically consisted of a good beer pub and a surprisingly nice beer bar within our mega-gr ...

Why am I, a Minnesotan beer blogger, writing about a beer store in Alabama?  Why, I'm glad you asked! My story begins way back in college at Emory in Atlanta.  There I met the woman who would eventually become my wonderful wife.  Her hometown was Huntsville, Alabama--home of Space Camp, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Red ...

Editor’s note: Our correspondent Laura lives not too far away from Marble Westside, so she was more than willing to tackle the second Beer, Cheese, & More on Wednesday night. Just as much as Kristin loved the first event downtown, we would say Laura enjoyed this one, too. — Stoutmeister We couldn’t resist running this phot ...

Yesterday I discussed the beer products aimed at people who don't like beer, specifically fingering the Bud Light -Ritas (Lima-a-Rita, Apple-ahh-Rita, etc.). I got a bit of push back about how long these products actually last in the marketplace, and it reminded me that most people don't get to see those figures. So here's an update to illustra ...

Boulevard Brewing Company will be releasing their Collab #5 this fall and it is set to be a tropical pale ale using citra, mosaic, lemondrop, azacca. Here’s more from Boulevard’s press release: Our collaboration series of beers has allowed us to work (and drink) with some of our favorite people in the beer industry who brew fantast ...

From towers of sours to beer battles and beer dinners, this is how you start your weekend. The end is nigh, but there is still much more to drink. Welcome to the second and final weekend of ABQ Beer Week. Friday kicks off with all sorts of events scattered across town as this annual tradition nears its end for 2015. We lead off with the return ...