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500 Tips & Recipes for Making Great Beer. Published by The Taunton Press. Released in September 2014 and priced at $21.95. Available in Hardcover.

Escape Craft Beer set to open by October in Redlands Redlands Daily Facts Josh and Melissa Fisher plan to open a new brewery, Escape Craft Beer, by October and offer another spot for fun, laughter and good brews. The idea sprang from Josh Fisher's love for home brewing. With his drinks a hit with family and friends, opening ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Cigar City Brewing Cubano-Style Espresso Brown Ale - Ale with Vanilla, Cacao & Coffee Beans added. From the Cigar City Brewing website: “This brown ale is brewed with a heaping amount of Cubano-style espresso bean ...

There were   621  entries and   255  registered participants, judges, and stewards. Best of Show Winners  BOS - Beer Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Style Club 1st Andrew Willardson CR13 16E: Belgian Specialty Ale 2nd Brian Coleman Dopplebock 5C: Doppelbock 3rd Bryan Gordon BG’s Sweet Wedding Stout 13B: Sweet St ...

I have a sense that an emerging theme of blurring lines is going to play a major part of my blogging over the next few years.  It's the slow mutation of what we would have formerly called "craft" beer into something that looks a lot like mass market lager--if not in type, then certainly in branding approach.  The latest example is Aus ...

Brasa Churrascaria & Brew Pub Santa Rosa Press Democrat Bonbom de Morango: Double-dipped strawberry in Brazilian caramel and tempered chocolate, at Brasa Churrascaria & Brew Pub, in Santa Rosa. (Christopher Chung/ The Press Democrat). Feijoada Completa: Traditional Brazilian black bean pork stew with ...

Beer Review: Saison Dupont Style: Saison/Farmhouse ABV: 6.5% Drink if you like: Clean flavors, Belgian farm hands, Boston Celtics, grass, summer. Although we’ve mentioned this glorious beer in previous articles, such as here, here, here, here, and here…it only recently came to our attention that in three years ...

Beer Baron: With Viking, a brewpub Stoughton can call its own Wisconsin State Journal The dragon head rises some 12 feet from the prow of the wooden ship-shaped bar that's the centerpiece of Viking Brewpub, which opened mid-month in downtown Stoughton because Malling and his family figured it was about time that Stoughton had its own&nb ...

Great Burn Brewing, Montana's 47th brewery and Missoula's 5th*, is opening its doors to the public at 3 p.m. on Friday August 29, 2014 at 2330 McDonald Ave. A few of us (and mostly their Mug Clubbers) got a sneak peek last night, along with the chance to sip on their initial line up of beers. Which include: Church Picnic Cream AlePale AleSmo ...

The 16th annual San Juan Brewfest took place on Saturday, August 23, in beautiful downtown Durango. Benefiting the United Way of SW Colorado, the brewfest had a great turnout, despite the rain that threatened to dampen the mood. Held at Buckley Park near the northern tip of Main Street, there couldn’t be an easier event to find, or find y ...