Local brewers bring home gold from 'Beer Olympics' KOMO News SEATTLE -- Three local brewers brought home gold medals at the recently completed 2014 World Beer Cup, considered to be the most prestigious beer contests in the world. It's often called the "Olympics of Beer" because it takes place every two years and ... Scuttlebutt's ...
Read More »New beer coming: Great Lakes Brewing Co., Cigar City Brewing collaborating
New beer coming: Great Lakes Brewing Co., Cigar City Brewing collaborating The Plain Dealer (blog) The Florida brewer is smaller than its counterpart in Cleveland. Distributed in half a dozen states, it has five core beers, including Jai Lai India Pale Ale and Florida Cracker, a Belgian-style White Ale. Breslow said eight to 10 differen ...
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Henniker's wheat beer a delight Boston Globe The lone brewer at Henniker Brewing Company is pulling double-duty on a recent Tuesday, brewing two batches of beer in a day that has him at the brewery from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. or later. During time he's set aside to talk by phone to a Globe reporter, an ...
Read More »Lansing Microbrew & Music Festival 2014: Gonzo’s 7 most-anticipated beers
Lansing Microbrew & Music Festival 2014: Gonzo's 7 most-anticipated beers MLive.com ... food, brew pairings and local food vendors. The festival also plans to feature "rare" and "sour" beers with a tour throughout the festival, making stops at several brewery tents where a new specialty rare or sour beer will be tapped around every ...
Read More »Brewers seek to rekindle Belgium’s love of beer
Brewers seek to rekindle Belgium's love of beer Chicago Sun-Times Now, the tables are often empty, a sign of the hard times many pubs have fallen upon as Belgians have stopped drinking beer like they used to. The beer industry, meanwhile, has increasingly relied on exporting the world-class beers to far-flung markets. and more & ...
Read More »More suds to sip for Milwaukee Beer Week
Boulder Weekly More suds to sip for Milwaukee Beer Week Milwaukee Journal Sentinel They begin April 28 with Rare Beer Night at the Palm Tavern, 2989 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., where two experimental beers from Central Waters — a rye bourbon-barrel-aged Imperial chocolate oatmeal porter; and Plums Were on Sale, a red-wine-barrel-aged&n ...
Read More »A Brief History of Beer
A Brief History of Beer Gizmodo Beer brewing and drinking are activities that have been part of the human experience seemingly since the dawn of civilization. Around 10,000 years ago, mankind began to move away from living life as nomadic hunter gatherers, and began settling down in ... and more »
Read More »Grin and Beer It: Your Weekend Craft Primer – Utah Sage Saison from Epic …
ChicagoNow (blog) Grin and Beer It: Your Weekend Craft Primer - Utah Sage Saison from Epic ... ChicagoNow (blog) The server asked whether I was familiar with cask beer, to which I confidently replied that I understood it'd be around room temp and not all fizzy and such. I thought I knew what I was getting into, but boy, was I wrong. Th ...
Read More »Jeff Baker: Be informed, don’t buy bad beer
Jeff Baker: Be informed, don't buy bad beer BurlingtonFreePress.com My quest was simple: rid my inventory of bad beer. It all started a couple of weeks ago when I read an article in a beer magazine about bottle date codes: the tricky, hard-to-decipher numbers stamped (or not!) on the neck of your bottle. Then I was ...
Read More »Glass half empty for Germany’s proud beer industry
Glass half empty for Germany's proud beer industry Chicago Tribune FREISING, Germany (Reuters) - Behind the pale yellow walls of a former Benedictine monastery on a wooded hill near Munich, the master brewers of Weihenstephan are still perfecting their art after nearly 1,000 years of making beer. Since Saint Corbinian ... and mo ...
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