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From an email: Around this time of year, as the weather starts to change, we hold onto the cooler months by anticipating the release of one of the flat-out most amazing craft beers in the USA, the inimitable Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout! That's right, on Monday, March 30th--beginning at 4 PM--ChurchKey taps a keg of KBS, along with a numbe ...

From an email: There’s not one city in the DMV that has the death penalty for firkin tapping…although we’re not so sure about Cockeysville.    With God as our copilot, our most distinguished group of cask-conditioned scofflaws and degenerates are racing through 11 cities with 11 unique firkins in 11 days (beginning ...

From an email: We're shining our spotlight on some of the best and most creative breweries in our neighboring state of VA. On draft we'll be featuring: * Lost Rhino- Tmavy (dark Czech-style lager) and Why Nut? (peanut butter and banana porter) * Port City- Colossal 4 (Belgian Quad) and Maniacal Double IPA * Champion- Killer Kolsch and Olde Salt ...

From an email: Next Wednesday, Rustico Alexandria welcomes O’Connor Brewing Company to the area by turning over 8 of our taps to this fantastic brewery out of Norfolk, Virginia. We are ecstatic to pour these selections for the very first time ever in Northern Virginia, and to party with the O'Connor Brewing Company team!   Many of th ...

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Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Cigar City Brewing Invasion Pale Ale. From the Cigar City Brewing website: “The people of Tampa Bay have fallen prey to Pirate invasion every year for well over 100 years. After more than a century of failing to repel ...

  Yes, you read that right. The well known and highly sought after sour beers from Oregon based Cascade Brewing Barrel House will soon be available in Hawaii. If you follow my Instagram, I dropped a subtle hint last week about this. This is a big get for Hawaii and will add to the already nice selection of sour and barrel aged beers a ...

The Guardian Trouble brewing: how craft beer fomented a battle for the soul of booze The Guardian When the UK's Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) was founded in 1971, it identified the difference between good and bad beer was that good beer was fresh, live, unpasteurised and served from a traditional cask, while bad beer was filtered, pasteuri ...

The Press, York Bishopthorpe Sports and Social Club receives CAMRA award for their real ale ... The Press, York Bishopthorpe Sports and Social Club has been voted 'Club of the year' by the York branch of CAMRA to honour their continued efforts to serve real ale, which includes Black Sheep, John Smith's cask and a regularly changing gue ...

I don't have the time to do this justice--reporting on it by calling sponsors, etc--but I got a tip that the Honest Pint Act is back on the docket at the Oregon legislature. You will recall that back during my tenure as half-assed champion of honest pints in 2009, the Oregon legislature actually took up a bill to make it law. (Yes, I know you d ...