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On Saturday, starting at noon, Draught Works will celebrate its 3rd Annual Customer Appreciation Day. There will be a free BBQ catered by Burns St. Bistro, giveaways all day  (including tickets to the Last Best Film festival, growlers, growler fills, hoodies, hats, gift cards, and tons more). "In celebration of opening our doors n ...

Good news for fans of 3 Stars Brewing who live, work, or consume beer in northern Virginia. This morning, 3 Stars announced they will expand over the river and begin supplying their craft beer to the northern Virginia market. More details are in the press release below (emphasis ours): 3 Stars Brewing Company is pleased to announce it ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Gregg Palazzolo was standing 30 feet from where he’s sitting now when he got a call. He was next door at the future Grand Butchers, helping some clients of his design firm get their business started, when another client called and asked about good locations for a craft spirits venue. “Hang on,” he said, an ...

Hull Daily Mail Beverley food and real ale festivals promise a mouth-watering weekend Hull Daily Mail Trudi Davidson previews Beverley Food Festival, on Sunday, and Beverley Real Ale and Cider Festival, which runs from tonight (Friday) until Sunday. A FEAST of mouth-watering activities are sure to tickle the tastebuds in Beverley this ...

UNM professor buys ABQ's first homebrew speciality store Albuquerque Business First (blog) The homebrew-focused specialty store has been known to provide amateur brewers with the supplies and equipment they need to experiment in both beer and winemaking. Many of those amateurs have gone on to be a part of new breweries, nano-breweries&n ...

After some detours to Groningen and ino the realm of art criticism it is time to get back on track with our series on new Amsterdam brewers. So today we introduce you to two chefs. Indeed, Two Chefs Brewing is a two man team of Martijn Disseldorp and Sanne Slijper who were at one stage in their career making food for people for a living. This i ...

Boing Boing Homebrew tanks of the Mexican vigilante movement Boing Boing Mexico's Rural State Force is a deputized group of irregulars drawn from the vigilante groups who've engaged in pitched, armed battles with the powerful and vicious drug cartels. They've adopted the cartels' tactic of homebrewing "monstros" -- maker ...

Sponsored Your Thursday workday is coming to an end, and it's time to pick a place to meet your friends. Remember the last time you let someone else be in charge and the closest thing to beer came in a shiny purple can and included the word ‘o-rita’? This time, follow this handy checklist for a successful evening out: Check out&nbsp ...

A few months ago, I wrote about Within The Ruins’ guitarist Joe Cocchi’s brewery, Tin Bridge Brewing. I recently got an opportunity to chat one on one with Joe, and he was able to give me a little more background on the brewery, and balancing the brewing and being in a metal band. Joe started out as a homebrewer, and talking to hom ...

Every year around this time, breweries from all over the US bring their best and most interesting beers to a huge three-day gathering in Denver known as the Great American Beer Festival, or, as we beer dudes casually refer to it as the “GABF” (like we know the guy personally or something). (And some of us super beer geeks call ...