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6-8p.m., WED. NOV. 12th WIDMER TASTING & MEET THE BREWER/FOUNDER, Belmont Station, 4500 S.E. Belmont St.; free. Jerry Fechter and Rob Widmer surrounded by masked men in capes at the beginning of last summer’s Brewers Parade Join Rob Widmer &…
November 10th, 2008 | Posted in beer characters, beer history, beer tastings, Buzz Beers, Life in Beervana, Meet the Brewer, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Have a beer with the nicest guy in the bizz: Rob Widmer
This is sad…from The Guardian The brewery is the last major industry in an area of prime office and residential development land close to the river Aire Martin Wainwright guardian.co.uk, Wednesday November 05 2008 12.55 GMT One of Britain’s best-known…
November 5th, 2008 | Posted in beer history, The Beer Bizz | Comments Off on Carlsberg will close historic Tetley’s Yorkshire brewery
Steinbart sells everything you might need to make beer and often holds free demonstrations on how to brew. Here draft technician Mike Moscarelli shares his 30 years of brewing experience. Founded in 1918, FH Steinbart & Co. has been a…
October 31st, 2008 | Posted in beer history, General Beer Chat, homebrewing, Life in Beervana, The Beer Bizz | Comments Off on F.H. Steinbart, one of the nation’s oldest homebrew supply shop, turns 90
From Joellen at the Horse Brass Pub (4534 S.E. Belmont St.): Our 32nd anniversary is officially Saturday, Nov. 1st and while we are not doing a big celebration we are going to have some special beers on for the…
October 29th, 2008 | Posted in beer characters, beer history, beer tastings, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Horse Brass 32nd Anniversary features special Hopworks beer
Founders, friends, family, musicians…they all showed for Produce Row’s 30th on Saturday, which featured live music by Slicer and others, and a ten-foot-long butcher paper card to hold all the reminiscences and stories… Saturday’s 30th birthday at Produce Row Cafe…
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in beer history, Life in Beervana | Comments Off on Produce Row’s 30th Birthday, it’s a family thang…
The latest in a series of Dixie Cup t-shirts honoring our own Fred Eckhardt We have a pretty good claim to the one and only Fred Eckhardt, right? After all Fred has spent most of his adult life in Portland,…
October 15th, 2008 | Posted in beer characters, beer history, beer touring, beercasting | Comments Off on Unhand our Fred, Houstonians!
Thirty years ago, Mike McMenamin sold seven of his employees the Produce Row Cafe and went off to start a wine distributorship and, after that tanked, an empire. The new owners of Produce Row (incorporated under the name Funhogs,…
October 9th, 2008 | Posted in beer history, Life in Beervana, The Beer Bizz, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Where Beervana Began: Pro Row turns 30 Oct. 18th
Full Sail founder Irene Firmat leads the crowd at the Pilsner Room in a toast to Full Sail’s 21st year Wednesday night at the Pilsner Room. … wherin I had four of the best beers in a row that…
October 2nd, 2008 | Posted in beer history, Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, General Beer Chat, Life in Beervana, The Beer Bizz | Comments Off on Full Sail toasts 21 years
A beautiful label, and every one applied by hand, says Full Sail’s Sandra Evans… Celebrate Full Sail Brewing’s majority with founders Irene Firmat and Jamie Emmerson and Portland brewmaster John Harris. Their birthday doppelbock, 21, has lagered for 12…
September 29th, 2008 | Posted in beer history, beer tastings, Buzz Beers, fresh-hop beers, Life in Beervana, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Wednesday: Toasting Full Sail’s 21st,
Two centuries ago and 5,400 miles to the east, Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese got married in a meadow near Munich and invited all of Bavaria to celebrate with feasting, music, horse races, dancing and beer drinking. That party goes…
September 15th, 2008 | Posted in beer festivals, beer history, Buzz Beers, Upcoming Beer Events | Comments Off on Oktoberfest at Max’s Fanno Creek Brew Pub Friday and Saturday