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While the panels and speakers at the Beer Bloggers Conference in San Diego were very informative, it was really nice to get out and speak to some people from local breweries. On Friday evening, we headed to Karl Strauss Brewery for some beer, tacos, and good conversation. Beers on draft included the tower 10 IPA, Big Barrel IPA, Wreck Alley Im ...

Good marketing practice is not that difficult. It just seems that it's so much easier to screw it up. Whenever I've been in a meeting room where marketers are discussing social media, everyone agrees unanimously that the difference between it and straightforward advertising is that it's a two-way street. Twitter and Facebook are platforms fo ...

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Leamington Courier Graham pronounces the Warwick real ale is good to drink Leamington Courier But the chance arose last week when Tom Douglas, the newest landlord in town, asked Graham to give his seal of approval to one of eight real ales. Tom - who has spent some 35 years as a publican - has just converted the old post office in West ...

Craft beer gimmicks are getting a little too crafty mySanAntonio.com I think this week it's time to take a break from the serious business of beer reviews to examine the folly and foibles around America's favorite adult beverage. No good comes out of taking oneself too seriously, as demonstrated by proponents of another ...

Restaurant/brew pub Mesabi Daily News The agreement extends to October 2015 and within that time frame, the developer will be able to make the decision on whether or not the restaurant and brew pub is viable and that resources are available. If that happens, they would be able to negotiate ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Harvest Moon Brewing Company Pigs Ass Porter. From the Harvest Moon Brewing Company website: “First brewed by Harvest Moon in 1997, this beer is a multiple award-winning dark ale brewed in the Burton, England style ow ...

Are you ready for a 32oz can of double IPA? Well, get ready because San Diego’s Mission Brewery just picked up distribution in Hawaii. Known for making not only great award winning beers, Mission also packages four of their beers in 32oz single serve cans called cannons (Mission IPA, Shipwrecked Double IPA, El Conquistador ...

This Saturday, August 23rd, Blue Pants will be hosting their first ever "Sausage Fest": An all-day sausage cooking festival!  Cook teams will be entering sausage into the competition for the judging panel, but they'll also be cooking for you!  For two hours that day, all of the cook teams will be competing to win your votes.   ...

It wasn't that long ago when I was still excited when knowing a new microbrewery would open or had opened and I would really look forward to drinking their stuff. But then the whole thing exploded with a couple of new breweries every week or so, and everyone and their aunt wanted to have a go at what by all accounts was fairly solid business. ...