Name: Founders Brewing Company Location: Grand Rapids, MI Website: http://www.foundersbrewing.com Type: Production brewery Available in DC Market: Yes What you need to know: You probably know this brewery from the yearly mass hysteria they cause when releasing Canadian and Kentucky Breakfast Stouts (the latter of which will ...
Read More »Spring For Real
Well it's finally spring for real up here on The Last Frontier, and it's actually been a pretty mild Breakup, since most of the snow melted months ago. The roads are in good shape, people are starting to work on their yards and gardens, and tourist season is barely a month away. Still, everything is not perfect. The Alaska Legisl ...
Read More »Maui Brewing Company Lahaina Town Brown
Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review. Tonight’s featured beer is Maui Brewing Company Lahaina Town Brown - American Brown Ale. I picked this up while on Maui, but have noticed that it can be purchased on the mainland now. From the Maui Brewing Company website: “American Brown Ale. ...
Read More »Local Flavor at BruFrou
On Saturday I attended the first annual BruFrou, a craft beer + culinary pairing event, at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver. This event featured beer and food from 70 Colorado craft breweries and eateries, and it was unbelievably good. Yak & Yeti pairing: Saag Paneer with gluten-free Apple Ale Being vegetarian, it&rs ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: The new face of Turtle Mountain
Greetings New Mexico craft beer lovers, this is E-Rock, back to bring you this installment of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column is hand-crafted to keep you up to date on all of the seasonal beers, news, and events served up at breweries and taprooms in New Mexico. E-Rock, left, has uncovered all the beers worth sneaking up on this week. When ...
Read More »Evolving GABF Style Guidelines
The Brewers Association has new style guidelines out, and in a couple weeks, I will return to them for some more meaty analysis. For the moment, have a look for yourself (.pdf). There are some significant changes to the methodology to go along with the usual adjustments and additions. There are now more "American-style" beers ...
Read More »Toppling Goliath 2014 Assassin Release Details
The following comes Toppling Goliath’s website: http://www.tgbrews.com: Assassin Gold Label 2014 Posted on April 23, 2014 by Clark Soon, our barrels of Assassin (our barrel aged imperial stout) will be ready to be blended and bottled. We had been planning on having a brewery only release at our taproom brewe ...
Read More »Interview with David Bryan, owner/brewer New American Brewing; Ankeny, IA
Another newer brewery in Iowa is New American Brewing located in Ankeny Iowa. Brewer/owner David Bryan was kind enough to take time out from his schedule to answer a few questions about his brewery and his beer. To find out more about New American Brewing visit their website at: www.newamericanbeer.com. Q: What was your story before opening New ...
Read More »NHC Winners / HopCat Comes to Broad Ripple
National Homebrew Competition Congrats to the following Indiana homebrewers who placed beers in the regional rounds of the National Homebrew Competition. Their beers now advance to the final round to compete for a national medal during this year’s National Homebrewers Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Good luck everyone! Matt Anders ...
Read More »West Yellowstone to Get New Trees Thanks to Bayern’s Glass Recycling
On this Earth Day 2014, here's a nice story about how West Yellowstone will get some new trees thanks to Bayern Brewing's glass recycling program. Reported by West Yellowstone News, Two Season Recycling will start today collecting beer bottles that meets Bayern's reuse requirements and get them to Missoula via Four Corners Recycling in Belgrade ...
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