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Sponsored postBeer festival season is definitely upon as this weekend sees major beer new festivals hitting both Brisbane and Melbourne.Melbourne’s takes place in the confines (no pun intended) of D Division at Pentridge Prison, in the shadow of its famous gallows.Unlike many of the festivals cropping up, entry price comes in ...

The trend of some excellent craft beers and tasty food continues to strike in Eastern Iowa, this time in the Iowa River Landing area in Coralville. A location that already hosts Backpocket Brewing the newly opened Winestyles continues its impressive dedication to craft beer and food with 30hop. More from their website: Trendy and yet a comforta ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Missoula Brewing Company Highlander Beer - Scottish Red Ale brewed by Great Northern Brewing Company. From the Missoula Brewing Company website: “The Missoula Brewing Company is working in partnership with the Great N ...

Here we have the 3rd Episode of the Irish Beer Snob podcast, here we have Janice and Wayne discussing the merits of "Growlers" and how they are a good addition to the Irish Craft Beer scene. Having intially come across the Pegas system at the Alltech Brews Festival in Dublin, Wayne was excited to see that this has finally reached the ret ...

It all started here on Saturday at Santa Fe Brewing. Hello, beer lovers! Luke and I were able to attend the American Homebrewers Association Rally held this past Saturday. The event was hosted at Santa Fe Brewing by Alana and her crew as well as volunteers from the Atom Mashers, Dukes of Ale, Santa Fe Home Brew Club, and Sangre De Cristo Craft ...

There are a number of very cool breweries in the world, and I have been fortunate to visit some of them--the foeders of Rodenbach, the koelschip of Cantillon.  I've stood under Crown street at the sprawling Greene King brewery, where beer is pumped to the packaging plant.  Uerige still uses a baudelot chiller; Schlenkerla smokes their ...

Homebrew Showdown at High Noon Paste Magazine Lonerider Brewing Company, in Raleigh, North Carolina, is hosting its fifth Brew It Forward, a homebrew showdown that gives one winning amateur brewmaster the chance to brew a batch of his/her beer in a professional environment with the help of the ...

I’m not one to rush out to an opening of a new chain restaurant. I may get there eventually, but I’ll give it some time. The lure of 52 taps proved to be too much, and, against my better judgment I went to Rock & Brews on their first weekend (they opened the Monday before) over at 4800 Montgomery Blvd. NE. I was prepared to be i ...

“Build it and they will come.” If Hollywood ever decided to remake that timeless classic in another vein, I would suggest, “pour it and they will come”, and switch the focus of the film from baseball to a brew festival. OK, not really, but there is a good amount of truth to my flippant statement.  … Continue ...

A couple of weeks ago Alan and I got an e-mail from Stan saying that, in a moment of weakness, he'd agreed to write a piece about the phrase "craft beer" asking us if we believed that the phrase, or the concept created an "us vs them" mentaility. The following is what I wrote back to Stan a couple of days later (with some minor editing), w ...