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Louisiana’s premier homebrew supply shop is turning one year old, and they’ll be celebrating by, how else, but with a big brew day. LA Homebrew opened up in late October 2013 and their first year has been a roaring success. Baton Rouge needed a full service homebrew supply shop, and the first year has proven that the homebrewin ...

Last week I got some beer mail from Abita with a couple of their brand new releases. They sent me a bomber of the Imperator black IPA and a bomber of the brand new Bourbon Street Stout. Check out Abita’s description of Bourbon Street Stout: Bourbon Street Stout is an Imperial Stout that is aged in small batch bourbon barrels. Our Im ...

We are back with my new favorite blog series beer vs. beer! Beer vs. beer is a series of head-to-head posts where I take 2 or more beers of the same style and let you decide which one is better. I will give you all the information I can give you and you will decide ... The post Beer vs. Beer | Allagash Tripel vs. In’finiti Tripel appe ...

Toppling Goliath is re-releasing their X-hops Red again but it will be under a new name: Sol Hunter Pale now has the label ready and now just to get the brew! Filed under: Beer Tagged: iabeerbaron, iowa beer baron, iowa craft beer, Sol Hunter Pale Ale, Toppling Goliath, Xhops

A new brewfest is appearing in Montana, and Great Falls is the host city. Presented by and in conjunction with the Harvest Montana Grain Conference*, the Montana-only Harvest Montana Brewfest will take place on Friday November 21, 2014 at the Best Western Plus Heritage Inn from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m. Only 400 tickets are available for this premiere ...

Put away those sample glasses. Don’t worry about what’s being served. Festival season for 2014 is over (well, save for one event, see below) and as such, the beer news is grinding (almost) to a halt. It’s the quiet period, which usually lasts from now through the holidays, and it can be maddening for a group of beer writers to ...

MittenBrew sat down with Virtue Cider head cider maker Ryan Burk at the Downtown Market for a nice fall afternoon discussion. While on the upstairs patio, Burk discussed cider, his background growing up in upstate New York and how he ended up at Virtue Cider and the future of the company. Listen here: The post Talking a growing craft: Ryan Bur ...

Cromer brewery listed in new Beer Revolution book by Campaign for Real Ale Norfolk Eastern Daily Press Britain's Beer Revolution, published by the Campaign for Real Ale, includes the Poppyland brewery at Cromer. The venture, in a former garage building in West Street, was launched in the summer of 2012 by former geologist and museum cur ...

Epic Brewing has a new Pale ale coming our way next month. Element 29 all Amarillo hopped American Pale Ale.  Element 29 is named for Copper the 29th element in the periodic table. Amarillo Hops tend to have full of big orange and tangerine notes. I got to try this ale at Epic's Denver taproom earlier this month. The appearance ...

Press Release: On Friday, November 29, Goose Island, Chicago’s famed craft beer company, will release their renown Bourbon Country Brand Stout (BCBS) line up of barrel-aged beers through special beer-centric Black Friday events in nine cities including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, … Continue reading →