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Brugge Brasserie, the Broad Ripple restaurant and brew pub with Belgian style beers, Frites, and Mussels, turns ten years old with a 'birthday' party on Wednesday, April 22. The celebration includes $10 mussels, one of the signature food items at Brugge, and ten special beers. Back in 2005 there were very few brewery/restaurants open in Indi ...

*Left Hand Brewing will be the latest brewery to add a session IPA to their lineup when they release Introvert Session IPA. The following comes courtesy of beerstreetjournal.com: An ale with hop aromas of tropical papaya and kiwi with woodsy pine, balanced by honey malt and a clean bitter finish. Left Hand Introvert Session IPA will be availab ...

Pretzel Necklace Team by San Francisco Brewers Guild, on Flickr Yes, it is craft beer festival season. While you’re stringing together your pretzel necklaces, we’re going to take a quick look ahead to what spring and early summer in 2015 have in store for us. Update: We’ve added a few events we either forgot to incl ...

How did you start brewing? Rockne Van Meter: “I started brewing in my kitchen in the late ‘90s. I went to the Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival in 2002, which was a bit after I started brewing at home, and the Monday after that festival I decided to quit my job and see if I could get a job brewing professionally. That morn ...

The second annual Greenville Craft Beer Week running from April 19-25 will again spotlight the beer and businesses that help make the Upstate city’s craft beer community what it is. And to help kick things off, three new collaborations from the city’s three breweries will be tapped at a special event this Sunday. As a treat ...

This month the Jack Of All Brews homebrew club met the SawBones Brewery (my basement bar) for the April 2015 meeting.  Here is a brief recap for those who missed it, or want more details! 1) Upcoming competitions a) First Round Nationals--Judged 4/10-4/11 in Roseville in the dank caves beneath the VFW. b) Lucid BFD--April 11 deadli ...

March 8 marked a brilliant day for craft beer on a global level — it was International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day. On this day, across all of the time zones, craft industry professionals and enthusiasts worked to create a unique spin on one recipe. The result: Unite Red Ale, revisited (original recipe created by Sophie du Ronde, ...

There's not much happening for a proper New Beer Friday, but we do have a new limited release IPA from Shades of Pale Brewing. This India Pale Ale is under their Beer X Series, a new rotating label that will change often. This IPA is mostly piney hops with a hint of floral and citrus. Malts are near toffee-esque in their sweetness. A fairly ...

Missing from the omnibus liquor bill was a repeal of the ban on off-sale Sunday liquor sales. An amendment from Senator Susan Kent to allow Sunday sales was quickly introduced and a rousing debate and though discussion ensued. Minnesota Senate fails to adopt full Sunday liquor sales, now it is up to the House appeared first on Minnesota Beer Ac ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is 18th Street Brewery Devil's Conclave Double Milk Stout. I acquired this bottle at Caps & Taps in Dublin. The guys at Caps & Taps (here) are really cool and if you go in there tell them that Mark from NorCal Beer Blog ...