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Just received the following email from Surly Brewing: What:  Surly Brewing Co., the Twin Cities-based craft brewery has just arrived in the Quad Cities as part of its Invasion of Iowa. Now, two weeks since its launch in Iowa, the brewery is kicking off its community engagement program, Surly Gives A Damn (SGAD) in Iowa by bringing togeth ...

There are two weeks in the year that I look forward to the most: GABF week and Colorado Craft Beer Week (March 21-29). And 2015 has no shortage of fantastic beer events lined up for beer lovers in Colorado. I’m personally excited for Collaboration Fest, which is sold out. But there are plenty of other fun things going on. Here are s ...

The spacious Sister Bar will be filled with sour beer lovers on April 11. (Photo courtesy of Sister) Sour beers are the final frontier of the industry for a lot of folks. For some people, they are a unique and cherished style, never to be missed when available. For others, they are a style to be avoided, so different from the rest of the beer u ...

At Brewvival 2014, Holy City Brewing and RJ Rockers released the collaborative Half Calf, a sweet stout brewed with local coffee. That collaboration, which has popped up on taps only sporadically since then, will be seeing a wider release in canned form. The canned collaboration between the Upstate and Lowcountry breweries comes in at arou ...

You heard it on MittenBrew.com first, and now it’s confirmed — Rockford Brewing Company will release its Belgian Multigrain Anniversary Ale in limited bottles on April 7, beginning at 5 p.m. The beer will be available in 2013 and 2014 versions, both in 750mL bottles. A limited quantity of 100 bottles is available from 2013, with 500 ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is New Glarus Brewing Company Serendipity Happy Accident Fruit Ale. From the New Glarus Brewing Company website: “Severe Drought, we shared the farmer’s horror as Wisconsin’s cherry crop failed! Dan bought wh ...

Today's post on All About Beer is a special holiday feature.  You can attempt to guess the brewery in question: “We do have a legendary process and there is element of mystery behind it—and you’re not going to get that out of me.”I do have one addendum.  This is a brewery that rejected my entreaties to see th ...

Two new beers will be hitting Eastern Iowa shelves soon as Boulevard has released a new spring saison and Stone is releasing their popular Enjoy By Series in 12 oz 6 picks. Also making news this week is Stone releasing a brew from their Spotlight Series that fans got to vote on; the winner: Imperial Mutt Brown Ale. Here’s more on all 3 of ...

            Join the industry wrap party at Union Pine on Friday, April 17, 2015! * Beer * Food * Music * VIP * Media Mingle * 6:00-9:00pm Venue | Union Pine Tickets: Available for Pink Boots Society members and their significant others!  $10 donation / pp. Keep an eye out for the Pink Boots Society newslette ...

Belgian Beer and Food Magazine, which debuted less than a year and a half ago, continues to impress. The Brussels-based magazine is the creation of Publisher/Editor in Chief Paul Walsh, with Alan Hope as Contributing Editor. Through its first four issues, BB&F has offered loads of content about Belgium’s great breweries, beer fests, ...