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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 Coronado Brewing Company Anniversary – 18th Annual Specialty Ale. I picked up this bottle at Plaza Bottle Shop in San Leandro (here). They carry lots of special beers before many of the other local bottle shops. If you ...

MarketWatch A tiny craft brewer sells itself to Anheuser-Busch, and a beer war erupts MarketWatch This past week alone, however, 10 Barrel has been accused of ushering in “the end of real craft brewing” and opening a spigot of high-minded beer hyperbole that hasn't flowed this freely since Anheuser-Busch bought Chicago's Go ...

Tampa Bay Brewing Company of Ybor City will be going out of their ordinary canning and draft releases to release, Apparition, a Belgian Tripel brewed in honor of Johnny Doble, the TBBC family’s son and brother, who passed away in … Continue reading →

Escape Brewing Company, Trinity’s newest craft brewery is now open and as of Thursday, is offering club memberships. From Trinity Brewing’s newsletter: It’s finally here!! Our Exclusive Escape Club Membership. We are limiting this to the first 100 members. It … Continue reading →

The Southern Craft beer: Southern Illinois has the brews The Southern Before 2009, fewer craft breweries existed here than horse farms in Chicago. But today, local beer sippers can rejoice in the relative explosion of the region's craft beer industry, with at least seven breweries opening. This barrage of new brew houses ...

Bold City Brewing is not keeping this stout a secret for very long. One of their rotating seasonal beers, Secret Stout makes an annual appearance, and then goes away. Well in 2014, Bold City announced the arrival of the Secret … Continue reading →

The Express-Times - lehighvalleylive.com Brew Works Craft Beer Festival: The early bird gets a discount The Express-Times - lehighvalleylive.com You've got a few weeks until Allentown Brew Works' Craft Beer Festival kicks off. But Jesse Albertson, Brew Works' corporate general manager, says now's the time to snag discount codes for the ...

Press Release: Creative Loafing’s annual Holiday Auction begins on Thursday, November 13, at 9 a.m. and will benefit Tampa Bay non-profit The Children’s Home. The Creative Loafing (CL) Holiday Auction is in its sixth year of partnership with the Tampa … Continue reading →

Rock Brothers Brewing Company, the craft brewery that combines the art of musicianship with the art of brewing, is bringing a music festival to Tampa. From Rock Brothers Brewing: Voices for Children, Rock Brothers Brewing, and Cigar City Brewing will … Continue reading →

No, not the practice of judging extreme beer, but the sometimes dangerous pastime of being a beer judge, as I discovered on a trip to Tuscany back in September... If you're going to spend Sunday morning judging a beer competition, this is where you want to do it. We're inside an old villa atop a gentle hill just outside the Tuscan vi ...