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Sierra Nevada has decided to take it’s gigantic beer festival called Beer Camp to a city where life is good there: Portland, Maine. At 5:00PM on August 1st, 124 regional breweries will invade Thompson’s Point with a slew of their handcrafted beer. Sierra Nevada even came to Portland, Maine to collaboratively brew a beer especial ...

The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald My Word - Rubbish ways let you down. By Don Jones of CAMRA The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald There seems to be a whole world of people out there that we never really get to know. These people live among and alongside us and we hear a lot about them. We encounter them almost daily and so do our friends; y ...

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Rubicon Brewing Company Monkey Knife Fight Pale Ale. From the Rubicon Brewing Company website: “Our American Style Pale Ale. Made with crystal malts and just enough Mt. Hood hops in the finish. A great session beer.&r ...

Goose Island Brewing Company spent a week in Portland, Maine and brought some awesomely rare beers with them. Sales reps, brand ambassadors, and even the head brewer Jared Jankoski hosted tap takeovers, heavy beer tastings, and Goose Island featured pub-crawls. The guys at Goose Island are about half way through their 30 city tour of ... Th ...

I have been pointing the nose of my Toyota east and shooting down the Gorge the last couple weeks.  That's the newest hotspot for Oregon cider, although most of the cideries are so new very few people have heard of them.  Over the next few weeks or months, I'll be giving them the full Cider Saturday treatment, but for now, here's a pi ...

Bronze in the Annual CAMRA awards for the Royal Exchange The Stone & Eccleshall Gazette Royal-Exchange-copy Michelle Hughes is seen here thanking her coustomers for their continued support (a seriously precious support in an age of declining numbers of traditional pubs) and Staffordshire CAMRA who have awarded the venue a “bro ...

Despite changes to state law and a passionate push from supporters, South Carolina has been cut from the list of possible locations Stone will construct its East Coast brewing operation, sources have confirmed. Friday afternoon, the Triad City Beat published a story about how the Greensboro, NC location being considered to house Stone ...

SFGate Hoi Polloi Brewpub and Beat Lounge opens in Berkeley SFGate A brewpub, we're accustomed to think, is an echoing warehouse where humans drink in constant reminder of their place in the industrial world, dwarfed by silver tanks the size of a brontosaurus. They're cavernous in the way that is meant to put ...

Boxing Bear Brewing Co. has opened to the general public today (Friday), marking the official debut of Albuquerque’s newest brewery on the west side. Being a bunch of well-connected beer writers, we got invites to a special “VIP party” on Thursday evening to try the beers and check out the renovated space near the intersection ...

These fruit-flavored beers are not the pits Los Angeles Times Almanac Beer Co. is a Bay Area-based brewery that has a series of “Farmers Reserve” sour ales that feature fruit beers aged in wine barrels, and you should be able to find bottles of their Pluot edition released in March. A month prior they also ...