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WDBJ7 CRAFT BREWERIES: Inland area experiencing a beer renaissance Press-Enterprise Beer is made with malted grains, usually barley or wheat. It is soaked in hot water to create fermentable sugars. The sugars are then boiled with hops, which add bitterness to balance the sweetness of the malt. Brewers' yeast is added to produce ... Mo ...

I had been planning it for awhile, the first non-work related beer day trip since who knows when. I had studied train schedules and connections, including different alternatives for the return leg, opening times, addresses, maps. It didn't even bother me that, because I didn't want to get back home too late to make dinner, I was forced to dow ...

Craft beer of the week: Michael's Genuine Home Brew News & Observer Beer Story: Home Brew is made by Back Forty Beer Co. in Gadsden, Alabama. As Schwartz explains, he built a rapport with the brewery while doing a fundraiser in the area. He worked with Back Forty's brewers to create an original ale recipe that ...

As the rising tide of craft beer swells around the Sunshine State, at no time was the popularity of craft beer more apparent than this past weekend as four craft breweries around the state opened their doors for the first … Continue reading →

In an announcement months in the making, Orchid Island Brewery of Vero Beach is now open. The brewery officially posted opening on Facebook this weekend: So, it begins to flow! We are officially open. A big thank you to everyone … Continue reading →

Groningen, that jewel in the north, the city I lived in until I left at age 20 to see other places on this planet. But it is still the city the majority of my family calls home and the city I am proud of to be from. In the years I lived there beer wasn’t on my mind, but music was. Groningen is an excellent city to grow up in if you love m ...

fox6now.com “Goat Gives Back:” Local brew pub teams up with Stars and Stripes Honor Flight fox6now.com MILWAUKEE (WITI) — A popular Milwaukee-area brew pub teamed up with the Stars and Stripes Honor Flight. The Horny Goat hosted 30 veterans and hundreds of volunteers as part of their “Goat Gives Back” prog ...

MEDIA RELEASETownshend Brewery crowned New Zealand’s Champion BreweryNelson based Townshend Brewery has been named New Zealand’s Champion Brewery. The announcement was made at the 2014 Brewers’ Guild of New Zealand Beer Awards held last Thursday, 21 August, in Wellington.Townshend beat stiff competition, with a record 670 b ...

vtdigger.org In This State: Tapping into Vermont's craft beer culture vtdigger.org It all began in 1987, when Catamount Brewing Co. opened Vermont's first modern-day craft-brew plant, in White River Junction. Like virtually all of the state's original craft breweries, Catamount was conceived by a guy, Steve Mason, who was bored with .. ...

Spain isn’t exactly world renowned for its beer scene. But before my recent trip to Barcelona, I’d heard whispers that things were looking up (in the Catalan capital, at least). To be fair, these whispers weren’t too whispery at all…there’s … Continue reading →