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... daily happy hour 4-6:30pm, one of the best in town ($4/16 ounce drafts and $6/25 ounce among the finds); better-than-average pub fare from Exec Chef Jason Giles; a super-value mug club ($15/year); and house craft beers that have gone from outhouse ....

... this year's Reading Real Ale Trail have been announced. The 2014 Reading Real Ale Trail has been launched to celebrate the 20th Reading Beer & Cider Festival which takes place from Thursday, May 1 until Sunday, May 4 at Kings Meadow in Reading.

When Jelly Belly recently announced it was making a new "Draft Beer"-flavored jelly bean, the dusty bean-blending gears in my brain immediately creaked back to life. I savored the opportunity to blend a fun part of my youth with an obsession of my ....

Ken Grossman has survived his share of froth and burst bubbles in the 35-plus years since he cofounded Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Now 59, he still oversees the nation's largest private craft brewery, producing nearly 1 million barrels of beer a year and .... Hops: The beer ingredient (most) drinkers loveWashington Post BLOG: Barricade Yourself Inside with These New BeersTwin Falls Times-News (blog) all 13 news articles »

This was, in part, because a one-time gain boosted earnings a year ago, but the company had also been unable to fully offset falling beer sales volumes with higher prices and cost savings. Following a pickup in markets during the second half of the .... and more »

The Swan with Two Necks, in Pendleton, Lancashire, was one of 57,000 pubs from across the UK vying for the title of the CAMRA'S “National Pub of the Year.” On winning the award landlord Steve Dilworth, said he took an unorthodox approach of “talking to ....

Look on any shelf of a well-stocked beer store these days and it's apparent that the art of brewing is more diverse than ever. Even consumers well-versed in craft beer have a hard time staying on top of the array of stouts, IPAs, wheat wines, and ....

Beer drinkers up and down the East Coast know Yuengling as a 185-year-old family-owned Pennsylvania brewery whose lager flows from taps in countless bars and restaurants. What they might not realize is that Yuengling used to make ice cream, too, .... and more »

Northbound Smokehouse Brewpub in Minneapolis loses $12,000 to $15,000 in sales each year because it can't sell beer in growlers on Sunday. A Minnesota lawmaker is proposing a bill to ease restrictions on liquor stores selling on Sundays. / File/AP ....

Two pubs were converted into supermarkets every week during 2012 and 2013, often despite opposition from local residents, a campaign group has claimed. The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) said a loophole in planning law was allowing pubs to be ....