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Source: @RogueAlesI braved the liquid skies and mud bogs for opening day at the Oregon Brewers Festival yesterday, and aside from the very unusual weather, things went just as you would expect.  Lots of people, nice conversation, and good beer.  One of the topics of conversation begins with the question, "what have you had today that ...

Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the second half of the now-divided Week Ahead in Beer. This edition covers all the breweries outside of Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties. From Taos to Santa Fe to Farmington to Las Vegas in the north, to Portales, Artesia, Silver City, and Las Cruces in the south, this edition will ...

The convenience stores (Indiana Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association) are going to try again to get cold (mass market) beer on their shelves. So they brought a suit. A Federal Judge ruled that Indiana has legitimacy in the the state law allowing only warm beer “to go” except in liquor stores, breweries and pubs. ...

Cask-conditioned ale is a process that starts at the brewery and continues at the pub. Bad practices at either end yield poor cask ale. For example: How NOT to cellar and tap cask ale: How TO tap cask ale: -----more----- CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale, based in the U.K.) defines cask-conditioned ale 'real ale'as: Draught (or bottled) ...

First, I’d like to congratulate our local chapter of Barley’s Angels on their upcoming one year anniversary! Be sure to attend their anniversary party at Velveteen Rabbit on August 3rd. The following is a guest post written by Barley’s Angels Las Vegas. Read on to learn more about the impact that they are havi ...

Oracle releases its 'unbreakable' homebrew Oracle Linux 7 Inquirer Oracle Linux 7 is the latest release of the company's version of its enterprise grade Linux flavour that is a fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This latest release adds a range of features including XFS, Btrfs, Linux Containers (LXC), Dtrace, Ksplice ...

Washington City Paper (blog) Bardo Brewpub Is Now Actually a Brewpub Washington City Paper (blog) A year after its opening, Bardo Brewpub is finally brewing beer. Brothers Andrew and Bill Stewart began producing their first brew—a ginger beer—Tuesday, and it should be on tap in about a week and a half. Other beers, includin ...

Sparkling blue waves Reach for clear cerulean sky Bright sun glints from metal and glass Reflective beams throw light and shadow Perspective and reality skews Warped river flows  Upward Icarus This week's 30 Word Thursday pic was taken right outside the J.W. Marriott hotel in Grand Rapids, MI.  I was struck by th ...

Portsmouth News Gosport Real Ale and Music Festival offers fun for all Portsmouth News THE organiser of a real ale festival is hoping there will be something on offer for all the family at a three-day event. Peter Chegwyn is running the Gosport Real Ale and Music Festival at Bay House School from tomorrow until Sunday. The festival ...

I want to start by offering a big mahalo to my friend, Tim, for approaching me about contributing to Beer in Hawaii. I have been following his blog since its inception and can’t think of a post that I have not read (and if I did, I know I missed out). Everything that is posted on the site is very well done, from the unbiased beer re ...