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Double IPAs. I like ‘em. In my mind, when a DIPA is executed properly and is served to me in fresh enough condition, it takes some beating. However, after doing a fair old bit of traveling and beering over the past … Continue reading →

Greetings, everyone. May this dark and dreary Friday nonetheless be filled with the promise of a good weekend filled with quality beer. All of us in the Brew Crew are looking forward to it, even though we have to get up awfully early (by our mostly nocturnal standards) on Saturday. Why would we be getting up early? To brew another beer at a bre ...

So a few weeks ago I was in Bristol visiting some family, relaxing before the silly season descends on us. It was a short but sweet trip, but packed with fun, beer and of course good food. As a treat my cousin surprised myself and my mum to a fabulous lunch at Brasserie Blanc. This is a chain of restaurants by French chef Raymond Blanc, with ...

Just after I got my last blog post on the street, I got word from Rob Weller of Specialty Imports that the next release of Anchorage Brewing Company's amazing A Deal with the Devil Barley Wine would be released TODAY, November 21st. Rob was kind enough to send along the list of the stores which will be carrying it. This stuff goes super fast an ...

For your Friday surfing pleasures.  Over at All About Beer, I have a two-parter about beer freshness: part 1 discusses why beer gets stale and what breweries do to ensure fresh beer and part two discusses why you still find stale beer on shelves and what you can do to avoid it. I've also launched a website to accompany my forthcoming ci ...

  Save the Date! When: Saturday, January 24, 2015 Where: Coralville Marriott Hotel & Conference Center Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm   The time has come to start making your  plans for BrrrFest 2015! Once again, BrrrFest will feature amazing breweries from across Iowa and the Midwest.    Continuing ...

It’s that time of year again, the time when the beer people dress up a little (maybe), and the wine people dress down a little (maybe), and meet in the middle for the Grand Rapids International Wine, Beer & Food Festival. This one’s always a little different from the yearly and seasonal beer festivals filling the calendar. ...

On a recent field trip into the Twin Cities, my wife and I stopped by Fair State Brewing Cooperative taproom for a pint.  This brewery is located on Central Avenue in Minneapolis, surrounded by an eclectic mix of Thai, Mexican, Chinese, and Middle Eastern restaurants and shops.  I have never really visited this neighborhood befo ...

Parish Brewing will release their annual barleywine, Grand Reserve, beginning Saturday at a huge brewery party. Tickets to Grand Reserve Day are sold out, so if you don’t have them already, you won’t be able to join in the fun. But never fear, bottles will hit store shelves next week and there should be some draft available at the ...

It's been just over a year since Shaw brewpub Right Proper Brewing opened its doors, and to celebrate, they're expanding. At 920 Girard St NE, in Brookland where head brewer and co-owner Nathan Zeender lives, Right Proper will open a brewery to serve both the restaurant and area accounts. Bottles? Cans? Growler hours? Pints? An opening date? St ...