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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – A 41-year-old South Carolina man was left bloodied early Christmas morning after his spouse attacked and stabbed him with a ceramic squirrel for not bringing home beer, according to an incident report obtained by CBS .... Woman stabs husband with squirrel over Christmas without beerUPI.com (blog) Woman stabs husband with ceramic squirrel for not bringing home beerTHV 11 Police: Man comes home without beer, so woman goes nuts on him with ceramic ... Kansas City Star New York Daily News all 283 news articles »

When Starbucks sent a cease and desist to a small Missouri brewpub demanding they change the name of a little imbibed beer called "Frappicino" lest the coffeehouse chain's customers mistake it for their own "Frappuccino," the owner had no choice but to .... The Other 'F Word': Brewer Responds To Starbucks Over Beer NameWUNC 5 things you don't need to know but might want toSt. Louis Business Journal all 6 news articles »

In a microbrewery in a trendy Berlin neighborhood, Thorsten Schoppe, one of a wave of beer-makers using new German ingredients to create non-traditional brews, pours hop pellets into a copper vat. "We only use four ingredients, and that's one of them," .... German Brewers Embrace Fruit Flavored BeerThe Daily Meal German growers push into craft beer market with new hopsThe Star Online all 4 news articles »

The Homebrew Computer Club started unceremoniously in early 1975, meeting in a non-descript Menlo Park, CA garage. The first members were a loosely associated small group of computer hobbyists and tech nerds, engineers who wished to share ....

Not counting this one, I wrote 42 Beer and Metal posts in 2013. It'd be impossible for me to pick my favorites—I love all my babies equally!—but I can certainly tell you which were the most popular. Google Analytics knows more about these posts than ....

The big-league festivals put on by the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild and the Beer Dabbler each sold out, collectively drawing 16,840 beer fans. The phrase “craft beer boom” was used by the local media approximately 2,487 times (well, probably) in the .... BEST OF 2013: Craft Beer Booming in NebraskaNET Website Louisiana's New Craft Beer TrailMen's Journal Craft beer trending in AlabamaWEAR Brewbound.com -Westword (blog) all 79 news articles »

If you're a Chicago beer lover, you have to check out what I'm calling the New Years Eve Chicago Craft Beer Extravaganza. For just $75 a head, you can ring in 2014 with some of Chicago's most loved breweries. Join Atlas, Begyle, Spiteful, Ale Syndicate .... South African craft brewers share their secretsVoice of America Top 10 beer stories in Ohio in 2013Akron Beacon Journal (blog) 7 Weirdest Beer News Stories of 2013PARADE News & Observer -ideastream -Wickedlocal halifax all 9 news articles »

New Belgium spokeswoman Susanne Hackett told the Asheville Citizen-Times (http://avlne.ws/1iqgdcG) trucks will start bringing fill dirt to the brewery construction site in January and continue for about two months. Most will be able to avoid .... New Belgium dump trucks to avoid West AshevilleAsheville Citizen-Times all 2 news articles »

CINCINNATI -- The new year is going to start out with a new look and name for one of Cincinnati's local breweries. Double Barrel Brewery will be changing its name to Bad Tom Brewing. Co-owner Sean Smith said they were served with a cease and desist ....

Proceeds from the Annual Craft Beer Fest 2014 will benefit Camp Casey, a Royal Oak-based nonprofit organization that offers horseback-riding programs and therapy for children with cancer. Posted by Judy Davids (Editor) , December 30, 2013 at 01:07 PM.