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Southport Visiter Excitement mounts as ale fans get ready for festival Southport Visiter Proud Southport & District CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) veteran Mike Perkins is behind this year's showcase and is promising an event not to be missed. The festival, which opens this Thursday (October 9), will have much more than just alcohol on o ...

THE RECORD: Black Wail- Black Wail [EP]- 2014 I do not write about too many EPs on here because I feel that a handful of songs are not always enough to tell you about a band. Sometimes, however, brevity can be a good thing, because it leaves you curious and wanting more. This is the case with Black Wail’s self-titled EP. Formed earlier t ...

It’s Fall right? Well according the beer world the Fall season started in late August, which is when we started to see autumn themed seasonals. Just in time for the season (lets just call it rainy season for Hawaii) is Goose Island Rambler IPA. It seems that the must brew Fall seasonal style is now the red IPA. The craft beer world is fi ...

More than 65 breweries showcased their most popular brews and presented new seasonal beers this past Saturday, October 4, as Capitol City Brewing Company hosted its 15th Annual Mid-Atlantic Oktoberfest in the streets of Shirlington Village in Arlington. As one of the area’s largest Oktoberfests, more than half of the beer tents that lined ...

Press Release: The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) and the Brewers Association (BA) jointly presented the 2014 Craft Beer Distributor of the Year award to J.J. Taylor Distributing Florida, Inc. of Tampa, FL at the Great American Beer Festival® in … Continue reading →

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Avery Brewing Company Samael's Oak Aged Ale – bottled March 2014 - batch no. 10. From the Avery Brewing Company website: “Samaels is a super-caramelly, oak-aged English-style strong ale. Perhaps the least hoppy ...

The 6th Annual Montana Brewers Fall Festival returns for its seasonal pilgrimage to Missoula on Saturday October 11, 2014. And this year they are set to break records! 33 Montana breweries will be pouring 137 Montana-made craft beers. Sponsored by the Montana Brewers Association, this brewfest features the best from its member-breweries. ...

The world of readin' and writin' has been in flux for about a decade now.  The gatekeeper model--print magazine, paper, and book publishers--has broken down.  That means writers now have a more direct avenue to reach readers--one they've happily seized for shorter forms.  In the beer world, the leading pioneer has been Evan Rail; ...

The Brew Crew gathered at Franz Solo’s house this Sunday for our first Oktoberfest challenge. Like our previous challenges, it was a blind taste test (thanks to our wonderful beer maiden, Taylor). This was the first time we felt there were enough marzen-style beers on tap at the same time to hold this sort of challenge. And yet, we still ...

SPRING LAKE TOWNSHIP — The evolution of Vander Fest brought the event to new territory on Saturday. Now in its fifth year, the annual craft cider and beer celebration hosted by Vander Mill Cider and Winery had a new angle on the event. Instead of inviting breweries to create specialty beers using Vander Mill’s sweet cider, the festi ...