Today is the first International Brewers Day. If you see a brewer today, remember to give him or her a hug. Or you could just buy him a beer or drink a toast to her honor, if that’s more your style. I’ve heard from people as far away and …
Not long ago, I mentioned that the Homebrew Digest (HBD), a long lived forum for discussing all things homebrew, had been going though a resurgence. Just as that was happening, the janitor of the HBD, Pat Babcock, dropped a bomb. He posted the follo…
Big cuts, bigger margins at Canadian brewer.
Beyond some big promises, it’s not clear exactly what InBev CEO Carlos Brito plans to do with Anheuser-Busch.
He has said that he plans to keep all 12 breweries open, make St. Louis the company’s North A…
Sorry for not so many posts lately. Aside from a crazy busy summer schedule, I’ve been thinking through reworking the blog and through budget restraints that are severely limiting what I can do with the blog.
But, I want to reassure you, that be…
This great editorial cartoon on InBev fears is making its rounds through the beer blogs today. Classic.
Shortly after I launched the website for International Brewers Day, I got an appropriately curmudgeonly comment disdaining the idea from my friend Brian Hunt, who owns Moonlight Brewing. Here’s what he had to say.
Let’s all just make good bee…
It’s a bit hard for me to believe, but the Brew Basement is now officially one year old.
Running a site like this has been an interesting experience. I’ve received more attention and traffic then I thought I would. Between all of you regular subsc…
Today marks the inaugural celebration of International Brewers Day, a holiday of sorts inspired by the graphic that greets you as you enter San Francisco’s 21st Amendment brewpub, a logo that asks: Have you hugged a brewmaster today? Conceived by loca…
Head over to celebrate the one year anniversary of Buster’s on 28th July 24 at their Customer Appreciation Surly Party 9:00-11:00 pm. They will be pouring six Surly beers: Furious, Bender, Cynic, Smoke, oak-aged Cynic firkin and Coffee Bender, …
Today is Carol Stoudt’s birthday. She and her husband Ed started the first microbrewery in Pennsylvania, not far from where I grew up. After my grandfather retired he worked part time there helping out with maintenance. He was married to EdR…