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Oh, Canada knows how to make the good times roll at the Winter Olympics with a little taste, or a sip, of home. Canadian beer company Molson had a fire-engine red beer fridge shipped in to Team Canada Olympic House in Sochi, fully stocked with free beer. Beer Fridge in Olympic Village Opens Only With Canadian PassportPeople Magazine Canadian passport gets you free beer in SochiCBSSports.com Molson's Sochi Beer Fridge Only Opens for CanadiansMashable TIME -USA TODAY -NBCNews.com (blog) all 92 news articles »

Since joining Anchor Brewery in 1971, Brwemaster Mark Carpenter has had a role shaping the beer scene locally in the Bay Area and also nationally with unique beers that helped influence the craft beer movement. Under the guidance of former owner Fritz .... Deschutes Brewery's Hop Henge Experimental IPA - this week's Crack One OpenThe Plain Dealer Fat Head's to release Hop JuJu in bottles Thursday at breweryAkron Beacon Journal (blog) Hops: The beer ingredient (most) drinkers loveWashington Post all 7 news articles »

(CBS Seattle) — There isn't much that pairs better than a burger and a beer and the conventional wisdom is that any brew paired with any beef patty on a bun will do. But a new restaurant in Seattle is elevating the burger-beer pairing to something ....

NEW RICHMOND, Wis (WSAU-Wheeler News) Wisconsin has some award-winning brewpubs -- and it's about to get one more, thanks to a more restrictive law in neighboring Minnesota. Barley John's Brew Pub in New Brighton Minnesota expects to break .... Frustrated with Minnesota law, bar owner decides to open brewery in WisconsinThe Republic Brewery frustrated with Minnesota law, crosses border to Wiscons - WQOW TV ... WQOW TV News 18 all 31 news articles »

Over the past 40 years craft-brewed beer has exploded in growth. In 1980, a handful of “microbrewery” pioneers launched a revolution that would challenge the dominance of the national brands, Budweiser, Coors, and Miller, and change the way Americans think about, and drink, beer. Today, there are more than 2,700 craft breweries in the United States and another 1,500 are in the works. Their influence is spreading to Europe’s great brewing nations, and to countries all over the globe. In The Craft Beer Revolution, Steve Hindy, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery, tells the inside story of how a band of homebrewers and microbrewers came together to become one of America’s great entrepreneurial triumphs. Beginning with Fritz Maytag, scion of the washing machine company, and Jack McAuliffe, a US Navy submariner who developed a passion for real beer while serving in Scotland, Hindy tells the story of hundreds of creative businesses like Deschutes Brewery, New Belgium, Dogfish Head, and Harpoon. He shows how their individual and collective efforts have combined to grab 10 percent of the dollar share of the US beer market. Hindy also explores how Budweiser, Miller, and Coors, all now owned by international conglomerates, are creating their own craft-style beers, the same way major food companies have acquired or created smaller organic labels to court credibility with a new generation of discerning eaters and drinkers. This is a timely and fascinating look at what America’s new generation of entrepreneurs can learn from the intrepid pioneering brewers who are transforming the way Americans enjoy this wonderful, inexpensive, storied beverage: beer.

Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) announced plans last week to scoop up New York craft beer maker Blue Point Brewery. This is the second craft brewery that A-B InBev will have bought outright, joining Chicago brewery Goose Island, which .... It's Time to Kill BudweiserSeattle Post Intelligencer (blog) all 3 news articles »

TALLAHASSEE — After a buzz-kill for beer-growler fans last year, a House committee Tuesday advanced legislation to end Florida's Prohibition-era ban on larger beer “growlers” and beer tastings. The House Business and Professional Regulation ....

The U.S. Olympic House in London, for example, had a tropical palm tree and garden space transformed into a Bud Patio and Coca Cola Re-Charge area. This year the Canadians appear to have the coolest appliance available in the Olympic village.

“Craft beer as an industry has been around since the '70s … but probably over the last six to seven years, consumer interest in craft beer has accelerated and taken off to new heights,” says Technomic vice president David Henkes. The Brewers .... US craft beer grows to take 7% of US marketThe Drinks Business all 3 news articles »

After weeks of planning, we finally sat down with brewmaster-slash-theologian Andy Campbell to homebrew a batch of beer. He takes us step-by-step through the process and helps Christian brew his first-ever batch of pale ale. Now, pretty much all ....