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As noted in the most recent edition of The Week Ahead in Beer, the Crew put out the call for everyone’s favorite beers from New Mexico breweries for 2014. The replies from our readers, not to mention from all of our writers, were fairly diverse. We’re not gonna do an ultimate ranking or anything — you don’t want to get u ...

Tony MageeLast week, Guys Drinking Beer posted a most intriguing take on a $25,000 donation Lagunitas made to the election campaign of Chicago mayor Rahm Imanuel. Lagunitas Brewing Company cut a check to Rahm Emanuel’s re-election campaign for $25,000. It certainly isn’t the brewery’s first contribution to a political cand ...

Greetings everyone, Stoutmeister here with the seventh post in the Look Back/Look Ahead Series for 2014-15. Our La Cumbre story, Kaktus story, Bosque story, Ponderosa story, Tractor story, and Santa Fe story have already appeared. As the year draws to a close, rather than just write up a single summary review of the last 12 months in beer, I de ...

Seminar Brewing is on track to become the third South Carolina brewery to begin packaging its product for distribution thanks to a new mobile bottling company. Bottle Works, a mobile bottling and canning business run by John Fleck, is responsible for bottling product for Conquest in Columbia and Benford in Lancaster. Fleck will soon a ...

New beer expected from Elk Valley NewsOK.com After closing out 2014 with the release of several beers in the Oklahoma market, Elk Valley Brewing Co. is gearing up for its first release of 2015. Mashie Scottish Style Ale is a wee heavy that checks in at 8.5 percent ABV. It is due for release in 12 ...

Quest has hit the ground running in 2015. Having recently expanded distribution into North Carolina’s Triad region, the Greenville brewery is gearing up for its second barrel-aged bottle release this coming Saturday, Jan. 10. Rum BA Imperial Smoking Mirror Porter will be the next corked-and-caged 750 ml release from Quest. The beer is a 9 ...

OregonLive.com ChefStable opening massive beer hall with Olympic Provisions sausages, 99 ... OregonLive.com Even as decades-old Portland dives close one after the other, new jumbo-class beer bars -- warehouse-sized watering holes, ala Yard House, with 30, 40, or 50 beers on tap -- every couple of months. Kurt Huffman, a onetime brewer ...

cleveland.com (blog) Drinking calculator measures your 'nationality' - beer notes cleveland.com (blog) CLEVELAND, Ohio – Finally, a calculator that does something more interesting than just add and divide. The Booze Calculator will show you what country you are from – as a drinker. Simply input three estimates of your typic ...

Having accumulated a fairly large collection (hoard) of special beers, I have had time to take stock and realize that I need to actually drink them!  I find it difficult to crack some of these unusual beers for just a regular day, often waiting for an event that is yet to come.  In order to force myself to open up some of these ...

Are we really chasing authenticity, flavour and story? Or just endless novelty? If you follow North American beer writers on social media (and if not, you should) you might have seen this piece from yesterday, in which formidable beer writer Andy Crouch writes a perfectly balanced profile of Jim Koch, founder of Boston Beer Co, and craf ...