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Brisbane’s beer landscape continues to develop and evolve with the opening of the new James Squire Brewhouse at Southbank. The new brewhouse is run in conjunction with The Mantle Group which, amongst other things, runs the Pig & Whistle pub chain in Brisbane, including the newly opened Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley branch. The ...

BlackStone Restaurant & Confluence Brewery One Night Stand 1 brewery, 1 night Friday August 29th, 4:00 PM   Draft lineup: Des Moines IPA  Capitol Gold Lager / Blue Corn Lager to follow Thomas Beck Black IPA  Weiss grip Hefeweizen – last keg of this limited hefe Port Barrel Aged Camp Fire   Cedar Ridge Barr ...

I know this post is a little late, but I figured I would make it so I could add in the pictures I took... So Sam, Clay, and I decided to go check out the 3rd Annual RVABrewBQ (Ercell couldn't make it- he was invited!) so we could taste samplings from the ELEVEN (11) different breweries in Richmond! Each brewery had a couple of different b ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Firestone Walker Brewing Company Pale 31 California Pale Ale. From the Firestone Walker Brewing Company website: “A tribute to our home state of California – the 31st to be added to the Union.  Beautif ...

In recent months all of us in the Crew have noticed The Ale Republic popping up as a term over the local beer landscape. Even after liking their Facebook page and reading their posts, we were still unclear on just what the concept of this local group was. Were they trying to open a brewery? Were they just craft beer lovers trying to create a ne ...

The following comes from New Belgium’s press release: New Belgium Brewing’s “Hop Kitchen” is a hoppy playground for the brewers to play around. The seventh edition of the series is a veritable United Nations of hops additions you’ll come to know as Hop the Pond. So named, because the beer features hops and malts fr ...

The following comes from Founders Brewing press release. Sounds like some more deliciousness is headed our way this fall:  Fall is around the corner, and it’s a good time for beer. We’ll be releasing the four beers above over the next couple of months, so be on the lookout. Mosaic Promise is our single malt, single hop beer ...

Brew Britannia: The Strange Rebirth of British Beer Jessica Boak & Ray Bailey Aurum Press, 298 pages $20  Considering the long history of British brewing, most historians have focused on London or Burton and their respective great eras of brewing.  Few have turned their attention to the most recent forty ye ...

Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the Metro Edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, giving you a list of their current beers on tap as well as any special events going on in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, and Bernalillo. Look for the State Edition, whic ...

A full lineup of Urban Growler beer will be available. The first taproom kitchen in the metro will be taking orders, and music will be playing. Urban Growler to celebrate Grand Opening with ribbon cutting ceremony in Saint Paul appeared first on Minnesota Beer Activists. Written by Andrew