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As one citizen of Beervana, let me offer a warm welcome to all those traveling from across the country and world for the Craft Brewers Conference. I hope you have a wonderful time and enjoy your stay in the City of Roses (acceptable alternatives include Stumptown, Bridgetown, or Puddletown). To help you feel right at home, I'd like to direct ...

Fat Tire 9–11 by GabeB, on Flickr Let me start by saying Fat Tire holds a special place in my heart. As a broke college student from St. Louis, I was embarrassingly unaware of the scope of the beer world, until that fateful day (night? who remembers?) when some brilliant soul handed me a Fat Tire.  After that, I threw down ...

There’s this phenomenon occurring right now on Canfield in Detroit. On one corner representing an older, distinguished Detroit, there’s Traffic Jam and Snug, the first brew-pub in Michigan. On the other corner, there’s the new HopCat Detroit, bringing over one hundred taps from around the world. And now sandwiched in the ...

Spenborough Guardian CAMRA beer guide award handed to pub Spenborough Guardian A landlady had reason to raise a toast when CAMRA dished out a special award to her pub for being placed in its Good Beer Guide for a whopping tenth consecutive year. The Black Bull, on Halifax Road, Liversedge, received the certificate from the ...

My Champlain Valley FOX44 & ABC22 What's on Tap? Make the Cut Homebrew Competition My Champlain Valley FOX44 & ABC22 It's the Make the Cut Homebrew competition put on Beverage Warehouse, 14th Star Brewing and Farrell Distributing. This weekend judges made the first round of cuts in the homebrew competition. Around 250 people en ...

BBC News Isle of Man real ale festival attracts 3000 visitors BBC News More than 10,500 pints were drunk by about 3,000 visitors during a three-day real ale festival in the Isle of Man, organisers have said. The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) event featured 150 different beers, ciders and perries - with all five breweries ... Newcastle ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Cider throughout the U.S. is booming. But in Michigan? “It’s been pretty fast [growing] for a good three years running now,” said Paul Vander Heide, president of the Michigan Cider Association (MCA) and owner of Vander Mill in Spring Lake. The Michigan cider industry is growing so fast that Vander Hei ...

Matt Hanlin of Benz was kind enough to send the following information along in regards to Cedar Rapids Craft Beer Week starting May 2nd. Cedar Rapids Craft Beer Week The first annual Cedar Rapids Craft Beer Week will be held May 2nd-May 9th. Cedar Rapids Craft Beer Week brings together a group of local breweries, distributors, restaurants, bars ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Smog City Brewing Company Coffee Porter. 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 ...

Hermit Thrush Brewing is focusing on Belgian inspired ales and tend to lean towards sour styles. Because of this, we’ve been wanting to try out their beers for a while now. We missed out on their tap takeover at the Farmhouse last month but got another chance the other day. The Growler Garage on Dorset Street in South Burlington had anot ...