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Hawaii loves the Pacific Northwest. So many people who grow up in Hawaii end up moving to the Portland or Seattle area and it seems like the love is being reciprocated by the brewing world. I just got word that Portland based Gigantic Brewing Company will soon be distributed to Hawaii. They join fellow Portland brewer Breakside, who recently st ...

Approximately ten months after they first opened their doors, I finally made it to The Post Brewing Co. in Lafayette. There are several newer breweries in Colorado that I still haven’t gotten around to visiting, as working full-time doesn’t always allow quite enough free time to keep up with them all. But The Post was especially ...

Many Americans celebrate the day after Thanksgiving by heading out to stores at ungodly hours while fighting huge crowds to buy things a bit cheaper than they can get them on other days of the year. I will celebrate it differently, because Black Friday also happens to be release day for Goose Island’s celebrated Bourbon County Brand Stout ...

Our Second Festival is Coming up this Saturday in Kavanagh's Pub on Main Street, Portlaoise, Co Laois. Festivities start at 4pm til late, entrance is €10, which includes two beer tokens and food from the BBQ. There is also live music and DJ to keep you entertained. Breweries in Attendance will be Bo Bristle, White Gypsy, and introd ...

Editor’s note: By popular request, the Crew is compiling all the info you will need on all the non-beer gifts you can purchase for others (or yourself) from our local breweries this holiday season. Luke, our Santa Fe-based writer, handled the breweries up there. We had hoped to get more of these stories ready before Black Friday, but heck ...

Delmarva Daily Times All-female act, Jane Lee Hooker to play Dogfish brewpub Delmarva Daily Times The group will play the Dogfish Head brewpub in Rehoboth Beach at 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, as the opening act for the New York Kleps — which is actually a French garage-rock band featuring Keith Streng of The Fleshtones. Jane Lee Hoo ...

For those who missed it, I interviewed the owners of Waconia Brewing Company back in March of this year before they had started construction on their new building.  You can read my interview HERE if you want to learn more about Bob and Peter DeLange.  Since that interview I have been lucky enough to hang out more with them and t ...

OregonLive.com 'Tis the season for holiday beer dinners OregonLive.com was lucky enough to attend last night's Old World Beer Dinner, led by Merchant du Vin's Tom Bowers, and it reminded me that the dark months are made much brighter by a good beer dinner. This was an especially good beer dinner on a Sunday at the Raven ...

Sierra Nevada Celebration   Thanksgiving and Christmas are special holidays when we gather with family and friends. We are so busy preparing our homes and food that we don’t always get everything done. Don’t worry about the beer. Grab some of your favorites, relax and enjoy the time off. I’m sure you all have read numer ...

Tart ales are, like tropical rainforests, strange, fecund places that give many people the willies.  Some just don't like acidity--fair enough.  But for others, tart ales are filled with unknowable flavors that may be as lovely as small, colorful songbirds or vicious and aggressive as carnivorous snakes.  Because of the variabili ...