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Karl Strauss Hosts Pro-Am Brewing Contest

Are you a Homebrewer? Do you want to spend a day brewing with the Karl Strauss Brewing Team and have your beer tasted by thousands of fans? Well, here’s your shot. Karl Strauss Brewing Company will once again be hosting its Pro-Am brewing contest thi… [...]

Sly Fox’s “Welcome To Can Town” [Video]

A little bit on Sly Fox’s new 30,000 foot brewery in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Welcome to Can Town.

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Fermented Photo: Biere de Garde from The Commons Brewery

Beer + Rain = PDX. It’s the new, new math. While I don’t have time to explain all of the intricacies of the equation, your takeaway is the beer part. In this case, The Commons Brewery’s Biere de Garde. A trip to the The Commons Brewe… [...]

First pints at Pints today, brew with the Widmer pros Saturday, Helles and hops at Lompoc: The Beer Here for the week of April 13 – 19

Pints Urban Taproom has its own beers on tap today, and Old Town Pizza’s new beer is testament to the strength of the brewing community, plus Alpine beers at Apex, two new Helles released and hops as usual Wednesday at Lompoc… [...]

Portland Beer Week 2012 announced

This year’s Portland Beer Week is taking place June 7 through 17 (two months earlier than last year’s August debut) and the official press release/announcement was sent out the other day. Notable this year is the brewing of an official beer… [...]

Thornbridge Wild Swan Golden Ale – 3.5% ABV

Thornbridge are fast gaining a reputation for brewing quality ales – not to mention shedloads of awards so, when I decided to explore Golden Ales for The Brew Club, I figured that it would be remiss of me if I didn’t include their own Golden Ale in… [...]

Blue Point Blueberry

Another review for the night. My Phils are finally looking like they should. I know that they can’t win every game, but I hate when they lose games early in the season. It’s also difficult when they have both Utley and Howard out. I have a new appreciation for baseball season because I now get [...] [...]

Beer Birthday: Gambrinus

Today is the traditional birthday of Gambrinus, sometimes called King Gambrinus, considered to be the patron saint of beer, brewing and/or Belgian beer. Not an “official” saint, at least not in the catholic church, but a legendary figure. R… [...]

Revisiting a Single Hop CTZ

If you remember our previous article on the Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus hop (Not going to read it? Well, they’re effectively all the same hop), we called the flavor “dry, harsh, grapefruit.”Perhaps it will surprise you that, after cracking-open a young bott… [...]

SAVOR 2012 Brewery Profile: Ninkasi Brewing Company (@Ninkasi)

Name: Ninkasi Brewing Company Location: Eugene, OR Type: Production Available in DC Market: No What you need to know: In 2006, Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge opened Ninkasi (named for the ancient Sumerian goddess of creation and brewing, as you doubtle… [...]

Memorable Beers #9: First Decent Homebrew

The first beer we made that we were proud to give to other people was only ever intended as a test subject. We were trying out our new all-grain brewing kit and were also trying to start from scratch designing recipes, and so brewed with only pale malt (Maris Otter) and Fuggles, fermenting with dried [...] [...]

NoDa Brewing Releasing “Tis The Saison” [Video]

Noda Brewing will release a new saison dubbed “Tis The Saison” on Tuesday, April 1oth.  The saison is brewed with peppercorns and rye.  Draft only.
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Odell’s St. Lupulin Pale Returns 4/21

Odell Brewing will release St. Lupulin Extra Pale Ale again on April 21st, 2012.  St. Lupulin (loop-you-lin) is a pale ale that pays tribute to a mystical character who passionately tended to rows and rows of hops caring for the coveted yellow resin within the hop cones known as Lupulin.

St. Lupulin is a dry-hopped extra pale ale with a clean and crisp finish. The selected hops, including Cascade and Centennial varieties, create a bright citrus and floral aroma and flavor. The brew boasts a golden straw like hue and an 6.5% ABV.

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Four New Beers From Bristol!

You are looking at four new labels for Bristol Brewing. We spotted these labels on beerpulse.com and checked with Bristol to see if we could post about them. Bristol has had their expansion plans in the works, tripling their brewing capacity, basically… [...]

Huddersfield Breweries Come Top

If you read Huddersfield Examiner you may have been a little surprised to find their lead article on Saturday being devoted to real ale, or more precisely the amount of real ale breweries in the Town. It seems that per head of population the town has t… [...]

Avery Brewing Celebrates “19″

Avery Brewing celebrates the 19 year milestone with Nineteen, a traditional Belgian tripel.  The brewery was founded in 1993.  Avery’s celebration ale changes each release year.

Nineteen years of brewing could kind of get overlooked with the big 2-0 coming. But we will never forget 2011! Not only was it our largest growth year ever, but we also began designing our new brewing In excited anticipation of 20 years and the new brewery, we concocted this very traditional, yeast driven. Tripel. ‘Thanks to those folks (you know who you are) who have been such on integral part of our longevity Read the rest

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Oakshire’s Pumpkin Beer In Spring

(Eugene, OR) – Oakshire Brewing has an update about their brewing a pumkpin beer in the Spring. The beer in question is called Big Black Jack, which is an Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter. Recall that this one was originally released in late 2011. Mor… [...]

Einstök White Ale

Einstök White Ale, I think I´ve never blogged about the strange but fun concept that Einstök is. Basically, Americans with great taste are brewing beer in the north of Iceland, or contract brewing to be exact. Which is a very good thing…This is my… [...]

Think you can brew a Proper Job? Then take up this challenge

Home brewers are being given the chance to take part in Proper Job Challenge 2012 and be in with a chance to spend the day at St Austell Brewery with its expert brewing team. To take part, amateur brewers must comes up with their own version of the award-winning IPA Proper Job and send it to [...]

Marley’s Brewery and Grill Bllomsburg, PA and Guard Dog Porter

So today me and my wife headed up to Bloomsburg to go out for lunch at Marley’s Brewery and Grill. It is a real nice little brew pub that has been in Bloomsburg for about 2 years. They have a nice easy going atmosphere coupled with a knowledgeable staf… [...]