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Idaho beer distributors challenge brewpub license HeraldNet 10 Barrel Brewing Co. started in Bend, Oregon, and the company produced about 42,000 barrels sold in Oregon, Idaho and Washington state. The downtown Boise location opened last year, and the company is also opening a brewpub in Portland, Oregon.

   With the closing of Desert Mountain Brewing, back in September of 2013, residence of Columbia Falls once again found themselves without a hometown brewery.  Darin & Carla Fisher intend to remedy that problem by opening Backslope Brewing in early summer of 2015.    Darin has over 10 years of brewing experi ...

Once again, Denver Festivus was outstanding! This year, over 40 Denver breweries were in attendance with their delicious beer. And it was so much fun! One of the many reasons Festivus was great is that it had a nice mix of breweries that have been around for years as well as ones that have recently opened (and some not even open yet). The ...

A profile of me and my story in this month's Beer Advocate Man, I have not updated my blog with my new articles and stuff for ages. Let's fix that, shall we? First of all, just a reminder that I've started a Tumblr page, mostly to house links of my stories, but also to reblog stuff I think is cute/funny/interesting and post photos. If you T ...

expressandstar.com Ale trail celebrates Dudley brewery's centenary expressandstar.com The real ale trail will be launched in the spring as the Woodsetton-based brewery kicks-off a range of events to mark its 100th anniversary in 2015. Drinkers who complete the tour of the firm's 20 tenanted pubs will be able to swap their completed ale ...

As you know DCBeer recently had an extensive sit down with Greg Engert in which we talked about beer culture, DC's craft beer scene, ChurchKey's fifth anniversary, and much more. We are now getting to know Engert's cohorts and comrades at Bluejacket, which coincidentally celebrated their first anniversary this fall. Brewers Bobby Bump, Josh Cha ...

As the brewery approaches its first anniversary (which is being held Jan. 31), Brewery 85 is readying to expand its distribution footprint in the new year, as well as work toward canning some of its core brands. Having expanded into the Columbia market in late 2014, the Greenville brewery announced Tuesday it’ll be con ...

What kind of gift would someone buy the craft beer obsessed person in their life? It’s a hard task when your trying to actually impress them with a thoughtful gift. Of course there’s always ‘the thought that counts’, which I’m a huge proponent of. I’m also very detail oriented and love getting the perfect ...

Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the reunified edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one newcomer down in Socorro also joining the party. We tried hard to keep the state edition going, but without partic ...

Three representatives from the South Carolina Brewers Guild will be representing the state at the 2015 Craft Brewers Conference during a seminar on winning over special interests. On Tuesday, Brewers Guild Executive Director Brook Bristow announced the Guild’s seminar – From Bill to Growler Fill: How Brewers Can Win Over S ...