The Michigan Brewers Guild invites you to celebrate Michigan Craft Beer Month (July) by visiting area brewpubs and microbreweries, purchasing Michigan craft beer at retail outlets and restaurants and attending regional celebrations like the 11th Annua…
My new holiday, International Brewers Day, will have its first observance this Friday, July 18. If you write about beer (or holidays) please consider writing about your favorite brewer on Friday, either as an interview, profile, bio or whatever you t…
Sierra Nevada is lucky to have an array of quality beers and good distribution throughout the United States. One that deserves a good amount of praise is from their limited selections: Big Foot a barleywine style Ale. This 2008 edition pours with a ve…
Is this my first African beer? I know I have had Kenya’s Tusker but never posted about it. I also know that I have yet to have a Nigerian Guinness. You know – the one Ron buys for the train trip home. I received this and a few other’s by Windhoek’s N…
I want another Utilikilt!
I received word today that one of Maine’s most iconic beer brands will be closing their doors on August 1st. Stone Coast Brewing Co. — which first opened its doors here in Portland in 1995 — sited money (mainly taxes) problems as the…
It’s official: Anheuser-Busch agreed on Sunday night to sell itself to the Belgian brewer InBev — The makers of brands such as of Stella Artois, Bass and Brahma — for $70/share, or about $52 billion; putting control of the nation’s…
I’ve held off on posting about the pending negotiations of InBev purchasing A-B since until there is an agreement, a press release, and regulatory approval it doesn’t really matter that much to you and me. Well, yesterday two of the three …
With the recent merger of MillerCoors and the announcement that InBev will buy Anheuser-Busch, power in the brewing industry over resources and access to market are becoming more consolidated than ever before. And that includes lobbying for favorable…
Let’s start with the license plate on the back of production manager John Mallett’s truck (above).
Then there’s the collection of plates at the entrance of the Eccentric Pub, which is where Larry Bell started what was then called Ka…