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Look at the shiny. Go on, look at it.  I think I may just about be recovering from a two-week long hangover. That's the only reason I can think of why I haven't written this blog before now. On Tuesday 13th May, my compadre Bill Bradshaw and I were named winners of the Drink Book of the Year at the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Award ...

ABQ Beer Week keeps rolling along, but it’s a little slower on Day Five, a.k.a. Memorial Day. This is a holiday for families to honor the military servicemen and women who have protected our country. It’s also a day to try to kick that Blues & Brews hangover from Sunday. There are only four events on Memorial Day, but we all hav ...

Great Life Brewing Company to open this fall in Kingston Kingston Daily Freeman “Great Life Brewing Company is a brewery-in-planning that will produce unique, handcrafted beers reflecting the charm and character of the Mid-Hudson Valley,” says a summary of Clancy's plan submitted to the city's Planning Office. “Our bee ...

Day 11 of our epic beer filled journey across The Netherlands and Belgium: We awoke early in the morning after a long night of debauchery the evening prior.  We were on the motorcoach by 10 AM and on our way out of Maastricht and back to Belgium.  Our first stop this morning was the Brouwerij Kerkom.  This is one of ...

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom ...

Pretty much every brewer I’ve ever met has that innate resourcefulness that you seemingly need in order to make good beer, professionally. The big macro producers are no-less talented, of course; even with their larger kits and increased automation, getting something exactly right time after time with limited room for variation is equally ...

Ashbourne News Telegraph Camra beer festival to return to Ashbourne in the autumn Ashbourne News Telegraph Chairman Mark Grist said: "We're really looking forward to bringing to Ashbourne the second Camra beer festival. "There's a lot of planning to do still but we're not going to let anything stop us. "Whatever the weather, we'll get ...

Andrew talks with Certified Cicerone® Michael Agnew about his quest to profile 236 breweries in his new book from University of Illinois Press, A perfect Pint’s Beer Guide to the Heartland. A Perfect Pint’s Beer Guide to the Heartland official release party is at Town Hall Brewery on Monday, May 26th.  Michael wil ...

Central Wisconsin craft breweries thrive off roots in home brewing Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Dane County makes sense as a place where craft beer accounts for about 20% of the local market, compared with the craft beer segment's 8% nationwide market share: With the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there's a more educated, wealth ...

As referenced in the original post about our location search, the 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition in 1933 and left the regulation of alcohol to the individual states. The laws that are in place as a result of this decision were an important consideration for us when we began researching potential locations. The most important legal issues t ...