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A hectic week has finally come to a close. Louisiana Craft Brewers Week was quite a success from my vantage point. I was fortunate enough to attend several events, chat with many of the brewery owners andemployees, and most importantly, drink plenty of Louisiana brewed beer. I was able to drink beers from 10 of the 11 production breweries in L ...

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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 Brewery Ommegang Rare Vos Amber Ale. From the Brewery Ommegang website: “Ale Brewed with Orange Peel, Grains of Paradise, Coriander. Belgian-Style Café Ale. Mellow, Fruity, Spicy. Every day we race towards some ...

Southernminn.com A taste of the Owatonna Art Center HomeBrew Review Southernminn.com He will be just one of the 12 brewers serving samples at the Owatonna Arts Center for the first year of the HomeBrew Review on Saturday, Oct. 4. The event will be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. during which time attendees can taste beer from local brewers ...

Gnarly dudes at the Bulldog I was a bit out of commission yesterday, but as I rest up for New Orleans On Tap tomorrow (I'm one of the judges for the homebrew competition so I need to be there early with a well prepared palate!) I wanted to post the schedule for wrapping up Louisiana Craft Brewer Week this weekend. Looking forward to all the ...

I wanted to alert you to a new project of mine.  Once a week, I'll be doing a blog over at All About Beer.  My debut post dropped today (every time people are trying to hype something, they say it "dropped) and you can find it here.  It begins: Every beer-drinking country has a particular relationship to the beer it brews. Germ ...

This weekend marks a temporary respite amid festival season, falling in between Hopfest last week and the upcoming Lions, Tigers, and Beers at the Zoo next weekend (plus GABF, for those lucky enough to head up to Denver) and then NM Brew Fest the weekend after that. So the good folks at Marble decided it was as good of a time as any to hold a s ...

Greenville Daily News 57 Brew Pub creates Centurion Ale for Montcalm Community College's 50th Greenville Daily News Mark Debri, left, and Nick Vincent brew signature ales each Saturday at 57 Brew Pub and Bistro in Greenville. They created Centurion Ale, a farmhouse ale that features corn and barley, in commemoration of Montcalm Communi ...

De Lambikstoempers, the premier Zythos-affiliated beer appreciation and promotion club in Belgium’s lambic country, organizes several events throughout the year. For the first time, I attended their “Bier Weekend” on August 30-31. This beer festival usually occurs during the last full weekend of August, and features over 100 ...

The Washington Post's Wonkblog has a great piece up today about American alcohol consumption patterns.  In particular, they include this graph, which illustrates two things very clearly: First, almost all Americans have a healthy relationship to alcohol.  Second, a minority have a really unhealthy relationship. Seventy perce ...