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This year’s legislative session was about to get started and as the day dawned, it looked like 64oz growlers would finally pass in a bill filed by some craft-beer-friendly legislators. Craft breweries were told by distributors that were unfriendly last … Continue reading →

Crooked Can Brewing Company is eyeing the Orlando area eagerly. Crooked Can wants to be the next area craft brewery, and this week they took another step towards that goal. Crooked Can posted pictures on Facebook this week that they … Continue reading →

Welcome to a new segment we're going to try to complete weekly. In an amazing burst of creativity, we're calling it What We're Drinking, until we find something better. Anyway, every week, DCBeer staff members will tell you about the beer highlights they had from the previous week. Have a highlight from the last week? Let us know what it was vi ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Cigar City Brewing Marshal Zhukov's Imperial Stout. From the Cigar City Brewing website: “This Russian Imperial Stout is dedicated to Georgy Zhukov, arguably one of the finest generals of World War II. Opaque black in ...

Prairie Trail Hy-Vee out of Des Moines just tweeted and confirmed that Funkwerks Brewing out of Fort Collins, CO will be hitting the Iowa market hopefully in the next 60 days. Here’s the tweet from Prairie Trail: PrairieTrailHy-Vee @ Ankeny2HyVee  ·  38m 38 minutes ago Well…@Funkwerks is the BIG NEWS!! @Iowa ...

Miami's Community Newspapers Mardi Gras Casino Presents Annual Homebrew Beer Competition 2nd Miami's Community Newspapers Participating homebrewers include: Mannikko Brewing, Maltese Cross Ale Works, Full Stable Brewhouse, 403 Brewing, Invasive Species, Hopaholics Homebrew Club, Alberta Brewing Company, Torres's Home Brew, Brunner Brew ...

CNN 71 dead after drinking poisonous home brew in Mozambique CNN A group of people returning from a funeral stopped off late Friday in an area where customers can buy a popular home brew -- made from sorghum, bran corn and sugar, and known as Phombe -- according to state-run Radio Mozambique. By Saturday ...

Sen. Dave Osmek (R -Mound) introduced the first Senate version of a Sunday liquor sales bill, SF58. SF58 would allow off-sale transactions from 12:00pm to 10:00pm on Sundays. Expect another version at some point from long time Sunday sales champion Sen. Roger Reinert (D -Duluth). Sunday Liquor Sales Bills Introduced in Minnesota Legislature app ...

Now that the holidays are safely past, it's time to get back to the Dive Bar Challenge.  Recap: this series is a barometer to determine just how far good beer has seeped into the crevices of supposedly good beer cities.  I'm testing the waters here in Portland, but if enterprising bloggers elsewhere felt their cities stacked up agai ...

Greetings everyone, Stoutmeister here with the 10th post in our Look Back/Look Ahead series for 2014-15. Normally I would list the previous nine entries, but that’s starting to chew up space, so just go ahead and click on the category link above in the byline and you will find everything we’ve written so far in this series. We hope ...