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Received the following email from Surly Brewing Company so if anyone is in Ames and has some free time; help out this great cause! WHAT: Come Give A Damn at this city wide volunteer effort that brings the entire Ames community together to clean the city up for spring. We are looking for Surly Gives A Damn (SGAD) volunteers to tackle the ...

30 Words Thursday: Grab an image (preferably one you shot or one you have permission to use). Write exactly 30 Words (no more, no less). Post it.Check Erin's Treasures Found Blog for the rest of this week's entries! It has been a while since I have taken part in this challenge, I have been more focused on my weekly personal photo challeng ...

Looks like Roosters' Patio Nights Pilsner is going to be available in some new packaging in the next couple of weeks. Until now if you wanted Roosters' locally made lager, you had to get your growler filled, this new bottled release called simply, Patio Pilsner will be available at both Roosters locations and select grocery/convenience stores. ...

Start to brew your own beer Finally, for the first time it’s possible to buy brewing equipment in Vietnam. The shop is opened by the home brewing club in Saigon. Read more about the home brewers in a earlier post here.  Visit their online shop and buy everything from hops to brew kettles. Earlier you had to bring hops in the han ...

South Carolina Brewers Guild Executive Director Brook Bristow was recognized by the Brewers Association on Wednesday for his fight to modernize and improve craft beer laws in South Carolina. Bristow, a Greenville-based attorney who has worked to strengthen beer laws in the state during the past few years, received the F.X. Matt Defense of ...

The Senate appears to be in a hurry to vote on their version of the liquor bill. Sunday liquor sales will be introduced as a floor amendment this Thursday. Contact your Senator and ask them to support the Sunday Sales amendment. It is important to be polite, but make sure your Senator knows repealing the ban is important to you. Omnibus liquor ...

A Whale A Week is my attempt to chip away at my overstocked beer cellar, while sharing some rare beers with a variety of friends over the year.  Last week we tasted the bright and peachy Peche 'n Brett from Logsdon Farmhouse Brewery in Hood River, Oregon.  This week we travel to Florida for a spiced Imperial stout... Californ ...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Beer: Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week kicks off tomorrow Pittsburgh Post-Gazette At the press briefing for Pittsburgh Craft Brew Week, held at the Penn Brewery, Dana Staudi from Three Rivers Underground Brewers, which represents home brewers, pours a sample of a mead from Apis. To her left is Brian Meyer of the Pitts ...

Tamworth Herald Vinyl records are the secret as Atherstone watering hole named in CAMRA's list ... Tamworth Herald CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, announced their countrywide list of over 200 Local Pubs of the Year to help launch April's Community Pubs Month. And the Church Street watering hole has been put forward for its déc ...

Westword Left Hand Finally Gets Some Competition in the Bottled Nitro Beer Category ... Westword More than three years after Longmont's Left Hand Brewing became the first U.S. beer-maker to bottle and sell a nitrogenated beer, a second American craft brewer has finally figured out how to do the same. The company, Utah's Wasatch Brewery ...