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The following tweets have been sent out by Toppling Goliath Brewing out of Decorah, IA and the news is very exciting to say the least! TG Brews Hop Patrol ‏@TGBrews 14m 14 minutes ago “@RKMetheny: @TGBrews @TGVectorizer you messing with us this morning?” Nope big news for you. We should be canning by mid-summer. Details ...

If there's two things this beer gnerd loves, it's beerfests and pub crawls. What if I told you there an event that combines both and it'll only cost you 25 quatloos?... er dollars. You'd be okay with that, right? For the last five years the Pocotello Chamber of Commerce has put on the city's Annual Gate City Brewfest. Held in Old Town Pocate ...

If Melbourne’s Good Beer Week is Australia’s premier major beer event, Brisbane’s Brewsvegas festival is arguably rapidly becoming its fringe festival. Driven by a bunch of Brisbane beer and bar people, the philosophy is beer egalitarianism  and  creativity in equal measure.  Even then, it’s not owned, ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Boulevard Brewing Company Irish Ale. I picked this bottle up at the brewery. From the Boulevard Brewing Company website: “Irish Ale, Boulevard’s early spring seasonal beer, is our Midwestern tribute to the legen ...

If you were able to snag tickets for the 2015 Kona Brewers Festival consider yourself very lucky. Tickets sold out in a little less than 10 minutes online and the lines to purchase tickets at Kona Brewing’s pubs in Kona and Hawaii Kai were pretty long. The festival is Hawaii’s premiere beer event and loaded with great brewerie ...

Some things just never seem to stop around here in Albuquerque. The weather will always be weird and unpredictable. The drivers will continue to stupify us with their, well, stupidity. And new breweries will keep opening. Yes, this brewery is opening up, and much sooner than any of us expected. Albuquerque Brewing Co. currently has their first ...

Last week I glanced up against the subject of cask ale, and by chance I managed to end the week by encountering an actual glass of the stuff when I had dinner at Deschutes.  Bend's finest is one of the last refuges of cask ale in the city, and you can always find two handles devoted to it when you stop in.  Rarely, though, do they off ...

Recent discussion on this site and in other forums about beer provenance and brand ownership has revived the argument that ‘Big Beer’ will, at every opportunity, ‘cheapen’ the product. This recent article shares Sam Caligione’s thoughts on the factory-brewery’s ability to mass-produce a previously small ba ...

The latest venture from the folks at Reds Alehouse/Big Grove/30 Hop/Blackstone brings us a retro diner feel with an eclectic menu consisting of a burger to fried chicken to bone marrow. Add in a nice tap list of craft beers and the IC/CR area just got another gem of a restaurant to go to. When any announcement that a group consisting of th ...

IndianaOnTap has a picture of the new construction at 3 Floyds. So I stole cribbed a small version. An article in CBS-4 says the economic impact of Indiana’s 100(+) small brewers was about $600 million in 2013. (as the writer celebrates the Support Indiana Brewers passing out of committee). The Examiner does a short tour of Flat 12, Sun ...