News

Abbie Speer and Amanda Mead, founders of Spokes Mobile Canningof Spokane, Washington, recently made a pilgrimage through Montana to visit some of the state’s craft breweries and inform them about their business, which offers canning services and solutions. “We put out a call to over two dozen Montana breweries,” says Speer, ...

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 new world wasn't much for beer for the first 250 years Europeans lived here.  The barley and hops weren't spectacular, and we had liquor instead.  That changed when Germans started immigrating in huge numbers in the middle of the 19th century and brought their tasty lagers with them.  I have a wonderful little history book ca ...

First Draft: Need a hobby? Give homebrewing a try Beach Reporter Before there was craft beer, there was homebrew. In fact it could be said—and has been by Charlie Papazian, founder of the American Homebrewer Association and the Association of Brewers, and author of the bible for the homebrewing community “The ...

There are today 46 known microbreweries in Vietnam. Number 46 is Golden Lion, a Czech styled brewery in Quang Binh province in central Vietnam. The brewery is easy to find in the provincial capital and situated at Nguyen Huu Canh street in Dong Hoi city. They serve two Czech styled beers on tap, one blond and one black. The province is known f ...

Gazing at myself By way of warped reflection I see a life that's full Wonderful spouse Epic travel Entertaining hobbies Rewarding work  Like rippled glass life is different than expected This week's 30 Word Thursday picture was from and of the J.W. Marriott in Grand Rapids, MI.  Sj and I spent most of the week there for ...

For one very important reason, I am going offline for the next three weeks. So there won’t be any posting, tweeting or Edinburgh Beer Weeklies until the start of August. I’m sure you’ll survive… Normal service will be resumed next month; in the meantime, enjoy your beer! Cheers Richard The post See you in August… ...

STV Edinburgh Over 50 Scottish breweries join at pop-up Corn Exchange 'pub' STV Edinburgh It is no surprise then that the variety of beers and breweries involved in the annual Scottish Real Ale Festival (SRAF) continues to increase year-on-year, with over 153 beers and 53 breweries at this year's event, eight of which are from Edinburgh. ...

Florida residents have been in on the secret for a while now: craft beer in the Sunshine State has been improving, advancing, and expanding for a while now. This news has been pouring out of the Southernmost State and after … Continue reading →

Hop to it: Brew your own beer Poughkeepsie Journal Adjuncts, in homebrew speak, are plants used to replace or complement hops to give beers distinctive flavors, odors and colors. “Just about any flower you can eat can be made into a beer,” says Rebecca Kneen, an organic farmer and writer from Sorrento, ...