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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 Pizza Port Brewing Company Swami's IPA.  I picked this bottle up at The Wine Club in San Jose (here). They have a small craft beer section, but they have an incredible selection.  If you're anywhere near The Wine C ...

Chicago Tribune Half Acre Beer renames Heyoka as Senita after complaints Chicago Tribune Unlike a certain Washington, D.C., football team, Half Acre Beer Co. didn't hesitate to change the name of one of its beers when told it could be construed as culturally insensitive. In this case, the word was "heyoka." For Half Acre, it was the na ...

Albany Times Union (blog) Flights are dumb, and you're dumb if you like them Albany Times Union (blog) For instance, a English Brown drinker who has sampled a wide variety of English Brown ales may order a flight that includes an India Pale Ale, knowing they dislike the taste of pronounced hops, and decide they don't like the brewery based ...

Bloomberg Brooklyn Vibe as Hipsters and Craft Beer Come to Jo'burg Bloomberg At the Neighbourgoods market in a concrete parking level of Johannesburg's Braamfontein district, where hipsters indulge in organic food and craft beer, the format is familiar to some visitors. “It all felt very Brooklyn warehousey to me,” said Jer ...

STLtoday.com After Apology From 'Gandhi-Bot' Brewer, Liquor Store Owners Take Stock Hartford Courant To Sureja, owner of Essex Wine & Spirits, the beer's name is insulting — a view shared by other Indian-American package store owners throughout the state. Many said Monday that they would stop selling the brew because of the name. ...

Silicon Valley Business Journal Exclusive: Los Gatos Brewing Co. to close; Youkilis brothers to open brewpub Silicon Valley Business Journal More than 20 years after it opened, neighborhood institution Los Gatos Brewing Co. will close its doors to give way to a new brewpub from noted San Francisco chef Scott Youkilis and his brother, t ...

Happy holidays and happy new year! We hope you have gotten over all of your family-related hangovers, made some good memories, and opened up some great beers over the past few weeks. We sure have. Welcome to 2015! This is likely to be another big year for the DC metro area in terms of craft beer, but before we get too far into the new year, we ...

Fox News Brewery apologizes for Gandhi-themed craft beer Fox News New England Brewing Company, a Connecticut based craft beer company, has apologized for released a Gandhi-themed brew but has not said if it plans to recall the product, reports Drinks Business. “Gandhi-bot” is an “intensely-hopped double India pale&nbs ...

Arr, there be the fermenters and bright tanks. Every year the Crew sits down with our local breweries, giving them a chance to take a look back at the year they’ve had and recap for you, beer fans, their wins, their losses, and the challenges they may have faced along the way. We also give them the chance to share with us all that we shou ...

Brewbound.com 'Craft Beer Cartel' Boasts Nano Brewery and South Florida's Largest Selection ... Brewbound.com craft-beer-cartel Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Craft Beer Cartel, located at 557 SW 12th Avenue in historic Riverside Park opened their doors on December 13th to local craft beer and home brewing enthusiasts. A joint venture from ...