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Real ale fans flock to beer festival Derbyshire Times Chesterfield and District CAMRA hosted the event in the newly-refurbished Market Hall Assembly Rooms on Friday and Saturday. The event boasted 35 real ales plus cider and country wines. A Battle of the Beers contest was won by Ashover Brewery for its ...

The Unknown Brewing Co., one of the more recent breweries to open in the Charlotte area, will expand distribution into South Carolina’s Upstate beginning next month. The year-old brewery, which is located in the shadow of Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, recently finalized a distribution deal with Advantage Distributin ...

Its hard to believe just how quickly this year has whizzed by - Its nearly the end of October and we are already talking about events for 2015! Next year sees the third incarnation of the the Alltech Brews & Food Festival in Dublin's Convention Centre. On Wednesday Mrs Beer Snob and I attended the launch event in Sam's Bar on Daw ...

2015 is likely going to be a big year for new craft brands coming into the state. Breweries from all over the west are discovering a huge Utah shaped hole in their distribution maps and are finding it's full previously undocumented money wielding beer nerds. One brewery I'm hearing rumblings about is Heretic Brewing out of Pittsburg, CA. He ...

For the sixth year running, Eastern Market hosted the Detroit Fall Beer Festival this past weekend in Detroit. In what has seemingly become tradition, Michigan craft beer enthusiasts donned Halloween costumes in spirit of the upcoming holiday. They waited patiently in line to sample rarities and regulars from the state’s finest breweries. ...

Newbury Weekly News Group Newbury Real Ale Festival hands over cheque to Naomi House Newbury Weekly News Group Real Ale Festival cheque presentation NEWBURY Real Ale Festival organisers handed over a cheque for £10,000 to local children's hospice Naomi House on Saturday. The five-figure sum was half of the £20,000 the festi ...

Every year the various “best of ABQ” restaurant polls come out, all with some variation of “what style of restaurant would you like to see here?” Personally, I put down “German” every year, but the hipsters always want Ethiopian, because they’re hipsters and German is so 19th Century or something like t ...

I had a great time last weekend! It’s now Monday and I’m still laughing and shaking my head at the adventure. Last Friday night I traveled to Minneapolis with friends Craig Martin and Dave Kragness in search of Surly Darkness. It is a highly sought after Russian imperial stout offered at the Surly brewery on only one day and fo ...

Lars Garshol has an interesting post on a question that has bothered me for the last four years: how sour were pre-20th century beers?  His post is well worth a read because he tackles it from a few angles.  The portion I'm interested in, though, is the survey of historical materials, which often indicate that 16th-19th century beers ...

Blackpool Gazette Real ale festival boosts hospital Blackpool Gazette Real Ale fans raised a glass and £300 to help a hospital chairty. Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre CAMRA members gathered at Blackpool Cricket Club to present a cheque to their Lytham Beer Festival's nominated charity, The Blue Skies Hospital Fund. Festival moves to ...