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Photo courtesy of Crane Brewing If you’ve been to a local be festival in the last several years, no doubt you’ve seen the guys from Crane Brewing pouring some funky and sour experiments with flavors – and in colors – not found in most beer, commercial or otherwise. Now, well into the build-out of their space i ...

A pair of regional breweries have big news on new releases that kick off brand new beer series. Free State Dirty Kansa & the Front Porch Series Starting closest to home, yesterday Free State Brewing released Dirty Kansa Kölsch, the first beer in their new Front Porch Series. A Kölsch-style beer is native to Cologne, ...

A quick shout out to two Missouri breweries who recently took home medals at a pair of beer competitions. First up is North Kansas City’s Big Rip Brewing who scored two awards at the Denver International Beer Competition. One bronze for Hefe the Killer, in hefeweizen category; and another bronze for Hathor’s Sweet Brown, in ...

It’s that time of year again … Beer Festival Season!   Also wedding season, but no one cares about that. Beer festival season is truly the season that tops all other seasons and, since we are almost in the thick of it, I figured we need to brush up on our festival etiquette and give some tips on what to do and how to ...

Pretzel Necklace Team by San Francisco Brewers Guild, on Flickr Yes, it is craft beer festival season. While you’re stringing together your pretzel necklaces, we’re going to take a quick look ahead to what spring and early summer in 2015 have in store for us. Update: We’ve added a few events we either forgot to incl ...

Fat Tire 9–11 by GabeB, on Flickr Let me start by saying Fat Tire holds a special place in my heart. As a broke college student from St. Louis, I was embarrassingly unaware of the scope of the beer world, until that fateful day (night? who remembers?) when some brilliant soul handed me a Fat Tire.  After that, I threw down ...

If I had the chance to force people to drink only one beer for the rest of their lives… it’d be this beer. Everyone would love me for it and thank me and probably give me more awards than I can count; at least without taking off my shoes. This yummy creation by Cinder Block Brewery is a Russian Imperial Stout. (Of course i ...

Taken right off the Odell Brewing website If my hometown Lincoln Park, Michigan is known for anything besides being the origin of the protopunk band the MC5, its Calder Brothers Dairy.  At Christmastime, Calder’s kicks out a jam of egg nog that’ll convert the most obstinate of nutmeg non-believers.  For me, tho ...

This beer (?) was described to me as an “Ale with Riesling”… Well, that’s new to me. I’m very much starting on my craft beer journey, so the action of mixing wine and beer is alien. So as I put my nose to the rim of my glass, I was apprehensive — unsure what to expect. (Which I’ve found to be ...

We’re a little late to the party. But there’s big news out of Northtown. Cinder Block Brewery officially begins distribution around town this week. There was a party last night at Tapcade at the Screenland Crossroads that you might have missed. But there’s another event every night this week. So get out and snag a Riv ...