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New festival venue worth drinking to... The Star It is home to eight acclaimed real ale pubs and four breweries, was recently declared the beer capital of the UK by The New York Times and is the place many a Sheffielder starts (and ends) their Saturday night. Now Kelham Island is to get another sup ... and more »

The turn out on Tuesday was amazing and the event was a huge success! Thank you to No-Li for being such wonderful hosts and a BIG Thank You to everyone who attended. Here are some photos of what you missed if you weren’t able to join us this time. If you want to be notified of  future events please fill out the form found here: Notif ...

Over the past few years, women’s beer groups have become increasingly popular and widespread. I have heard of at least five in the Front Range area alone (and I imagine there are several more). And in January, the Colorado chapter of Barley’s Angels was established. Barley’s Angels has monthly events in both Denver and Bo ...

Higherground Brewing co-founder, Jasper Miller, displays yet another talent, this time as entrepreneurial writer of his new ebook, How to Start a Small-Scale Microbrewery: A Primer, released this March on Amazon. "This book will show someone how to open a brewery for less than $200k," says Miller, who opened Higherground Brewing with his pa ...

WCPO Fire Reported at Brewery 700 WLW (Trenton, Oh.)--A fire was reported early Tuesday morning at the Miller Brewing Company in Trenton, Ohio. At least five Fire Departments were called in just after 8:30 a.m. The Brewery, on roughly 1,000 acres in Butler County is located near Edgewood ... Crews extinguish structure fire at MillerCo ...

Last Saturday I attended a beer festival in Denver. A beer festival? In Denver?! Yes–another festival. They happen so frequently these days that one might wonder how it’s possible to put together a beer event that is different, special. Well, the folks behind Collaboration Festival made it happen. Collaboration Fest took place o ...

Beer Madness: Devils Backbone Vienna Lager takes the title Washington Post Jason Oliver is going to need a larger trophy case. Since he became head brewer at Virginia's Devils Backbone Brewing in 2008, Oliver has collected 23 medals at the annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver and seven awards at the biannual World ... a ...

A Craft-Beer Pub Crawl in the 'Kitchen of Japan' New York Times For a long time, drinking beer in Japan meant implicitly supporting one of the country's four major producers: Asahi, Kirin, Suntory and Sapporo. But in the mid-1990s, when a law prohibiting the operation of small-scale breweries was abandoned, the ... and more »

Brews Review: Take a class, raise a glass to salute home brew day NRToday.com May 3 is National Home Brew Day, an annual American Homebrewers Association event where folks get to talk, make and taste homebrewed beer. Our local club, the Umpqua Valley Brewers Guild, will be hosting a rally from 1 to 4 p.m. at Backside Brewing ... A ...

Showtime Test Build v4.5.329: Show Hardware Acceleration, Image Quality Fixes MMORPG Showtime Media Center is one of the most popular PS3 homebrew apps, and that's partially thanks to its constant version updates. In general, this build retains many of the features that make it the single greatest media playing option for your modded ...