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April is another stellar month for our favorite Y-East Bayside brewery Rising Tide. This month Rising Tide is busy with running, re-releasing my personal favorite beer of theirs: MITAle, having brunch, dinner, and generally doing great things for the local community. Also, watch out for Rising Tide’s new 12 oz. 4-pack format that they ...

Want to support local businesses and a local non-profit by drinking beer all day? This Saturday RVA ROCK$ and Fetch A Cure are taking over Mayo Island with OnTap!, a beer festival celebrating with only local craft brews. Of course it wouldn't be craft brew without live music and food trucks on site. Tickets range from $25 to $50 and allow unlim ...

NOLA Brewing is launching a new pale ale on April 16th to benefit The Roots of Music, a non-profit music organization co-founded by Rebirth Brass Band drummer, Derrick Tabb. This sessionable pale ale is brewed using five different malts, as well as Cascade, Citra and Simcoe hops. It will also be available later this summer in 12-ounce cans. See ...

In my attempt to cover upcoming breweries, I came across Richard Drawdy, the brewer for the soon to open Bank Brewing.  The brewery is located in the small border town of Hendricks, MN and I'll let Richard tell you more about that in his own words!  When I first looked up the brewery I discovered that they are responsible for the ...

Baton Rouge homebrewer, and president of the Red Stick Brewmasters homebrew club, Keith Primeaux, realized there was a deficiency in the Baton Rouge market for homebrew supplies. While a few shops around town carried some homebrew ingredients and supplies, there hasn’t been a one-stop shop to find everything a homebrewer needed in Baton R ...

Friends and co-founders of Aeronaut Brewing Company, Ronn Friedlander, Ben Holmes, and Dan Rassi, are at odds with how to describe the concept for Somerville’s newest brewery. “We wanted to start a brewery, and we always had the idea to some how involve the community,” said Friedlander. When they found the space at 14 Tyler ...

I don’t typically promote beer dinners, because there tend to be a plethora of them, and I just can’t seem to make them all. But there’s a beer dinner this weekend in Baton Rouge that I couldn’t help but attend. And so should you. The Chimes Restaurant and Taproom on Highland Road is hosting what will be an epic beer din ...

Beer in Germany is not new.  Craft beer in Germany, however, is growing a culture all on its own. I have been keeping up on the growth of craft beer internationally and I found this great TV show that is bringing to light the beauty in pairing craft beer and craft food in Germany.  We call it a “party in our mouth,” they c ...

The Michigan Beer Blog has had the privilege of traveling the state visiting breweries, but we have a special place in our heart for our city and our neighborhood.  As proud West Siders, it’s with no small joy that we can write about a brewery that’s in our own neighborhood. Indeed, the Mitten is our neighborhood bar. Built ...

Reading Post Reading Beer and Cider Festival: Serious real ale fans Reading Post He added: "The overriding reason for anyone doing the trail has to be, as with going to pubs, to enjoy real ale and cider whilst supporting a great British institution that remains under threat from cheap supermarket alcohol and the high prices/rents ...