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coloradobeergirl:A look back at my Best in Show picks from 2012’s GABF. Originally posted on coloradobeergirl: In my previous post I listed several of my favorite beers from this year’s GABF. But I wanted to do one more that specifically pointed out a few beers and breweries I thought were just unbelievable.  Hot Thoup (Dogfis ...

There has been a lot of little beer-related news items coming across the Crew’s proverbial desk of late, so I figured I would jam them all together in a notebook. Now it’s just a test to see how many of those items I actually remember. Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead. New breweries are (still) sprouting like weeds After the ...

I've been playing around with my camera and have a few cool shots that actually came out well, as well as a couple that are kinda blurry. Once I get access to (and knowledge of) some photo editing software, I'll fix up the blurrier ones. A bit of a blurry shot of all the brewers at the Irish House Emilyand Cari taking pictures of the brew ...

A beautiful little girl So strong and bold Fought so hard to maintain her hold.  Such struggle Such vibrancy of life.  Living more In her time Than many ever do.   This is the toughest time I've ever had in writing something.  Little Emma was diagnosed with a cancer called neuroblastoma in 2010-2011.  ...

Yesterday, we briefly got into the topic of "wet hopped" beers when discussing Uinta's seasonal Wet-n-Wyld Pale Ale. Basically brewers have taken on a trend to using the freshly harvested green - wet hops straight off the bine. These wet hops are literally dripping with the sticky delicoius yellow resins (lupulin), which carries with it all o ...

The last 10 years in the Maine beer industry have seen a dramatic increase in new breweries opening. In fact, . These new kids on the block are looking at already existing breweries and other national newbies and built their blueprints accordingly. There are only 2 staple things that are needed to run a brewery ... The post Maine’s Ta ...

Every year I'm paid to compile the Cask Report on behalf of Cask Matters - a loose affiliation of brewers and industry bodies including SIBA, CAMRA, Cask Marque and most of the leading regional and family brewers in the UK. The eighth report launches today to coincide with the start of Cask Ale Week. Success makes people nervous, ...

Staunton News Leader First Craft Beer and Craft Festival this weekend Staunton News Leader Staunton Augusta Art Center along with partner Virginia Eagle Distributing present the first annual Craft Beer and Craft Festival from 1-6 p.m. Saturday at the Smith Center Garden and on Barristers Row. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Staunton Aug ...

Launches In New ZealandTeam ExpansionOver 60 CustomersKegstar is pleased to announce it commenced operations in New Zealand during September. Kegstar rents kegs both domestically within New Zealand, and also allows for trans-Tasman keg flows for all our customers. Kegstar’s launch customer for the New Zealand market is Garage Project, ...

If you've been wondering why there's been no blog for the last three weeks, the tittle of this blog should give you a clue!  Yes, I've been doing quite a bit of travelling over the last three weeks, and none of it was directly related to beer.  However, that doesn't mean that I didn't have some interesting beer encounters along the wa ...