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September 22nd-28th marks the second Louisiana Craft Brewers Week, and there is a busy schedule of events all around the state. Check out what’s going on all around the state below. Special thanks to Nora of NOLA Beer Blog for putting together such a comprehensive list of New Orleans and Northshore events. I added other events from a ...

Upon returning back to real life and reflecting upon the Beer Blogger's conference last month, I have come to the conclusion that: 1) San Diego is awesome and four days to explore the beer culture there is just starting to scratch the surface; and 2) I love hanging out with my beer geek tribe. Meeting folks from all over, united by beer, and ha ...

Great Raft Brewing is at it again. They’ve released a couple of seasonals in bombers (All My Tomorrows was a hoppy saison and Grace & Grit was a double IPA), and now comes another one. At Arm’s Length will be an India pale lager and will be available in 22 ounce bottles beginning September 25th at the brewery. At Arm’s Len ...

Got this release from Great Raft Brewing yesterday. I continue to be impressed with what they are doing. Their beer is excellent, and they have some of the best artwork designs around. These cans are no exception. Check it out below. Great Raft Brewing to Launch Reasonably Corrupt in Cans - Black lager is third year-around offering in ...

Louisiana Craft Brewers Week returns this year September 22nd through 28th. In conjunction with that, fellow food and beer blogger Jay Ducote of Bite and Booze is teaming up with all 9 south Louisiana breweries to host a Louisiana Brewers Bash. The event will be held at The Irish House in New Orleans on Wednesday, September 24th from 6-9PM ...

Zac Caramonta and Josh Erickson both are homebrewers turned craft brewery owners. The friends made their acquaintance in the Mystic Krewe of Brew homebrew club on the Northshore years ago. Today, they are pumping out their brews commercially as two of the 11 craft breweries in the state of Louisiana. Chafunkta Brewing Company sold their first p ...

Parish Brewing out of Broussard, Louisiana had a hit last spring with their Ghost in the Machine double IPA. Owner and brewmaster, Andrew Godley, got his hands on some different aroma hops (not sure he wants me to reveal them) and tweaked the grain bill a bit for the second version. And perhaps the best news was that this batch was bottled ...

Preparing for the speed drinking madness that awaited us The Beer Blogger's Conference, held this year in San Diego, is a heady, um, brew of beer geeks, beer geek enablers, free beer, lots of information, and then also some beer. While I will be providing a more complete overview, I wanted to start out with the most intense (and my favorite) e ...

It’s been a while since I talked to the guys at Tin Roof Brewing, but I managed to catch up with one of the co-owners, William McGehee, today. They have a few things in the works over the next couple weeks, so here’s an update. First, they are debuting a Tropical IPA today at The Chimes East. The base beer for this is their Juke Joi ...

Sunday isn’t a typical day to release a single keg of a specialty beer to a market. But then again, Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout isn’t a typical specialty beer. Yesterday, The Chimes East in Baton Rouge put a single keg of it on tap just in time for Sunday brunch. Fortunately, I had a heads up that this was happening, so ...