BridgePort Brewery is releasing this season’s Hop Harvest, the 22-ounce beer that kicked off the Big Brew series a year ago. the release party is hosting a release party on 5 – 8 p.m., Fri., Sept. 12th, BridgePort brewpub +…
This month’s Fermentation Friday is hosted by Panhandle beer snob and redneck brewery. The topic?
“What, in the opinion of others, is the best beer you have ever made and why?”
I posed this question on my blog and had one response. I…
In the September 2008 version of All About Beer magazine, Don Russell writes and article called “Retro Beer,” which chronicles the rise of beers like Pabst, Rheingold and Genny Cream Ale among hipsters and ironic college types.The piece speaks of how …
Readers of this column have often asked me to speak about how bad the beer scene in Connecticut is. An event coming up this month in Waterbury turns that assumption upside down.
The Brass City Brew Fest will be held in Waterbury on Saturday, Sept 1…
I know. I’m a butterfly. Today we’ve jumped back in time to the early 19th century. A period from which brewing records still exist.MaltThis period saw a key change in British brewing practices. Though brewers had already been aware of the better yiel…
Some timely beer-related campaign news, via Best of the Web. As James Taranto spins it, tongue firmly in cheek, “Barack Obama is using beer on draft, registering drunk college students to vote:”
At the University of Detroit Mercy, Lauren Wolfe, a 2…
Okay, I am now revealing my total and complete stupidity by asking what a dumb question. I’ve asked a bunch of people in the “real” world, and no one knew the answer (which makes me feel marginally better about my stupidity).
I’ve also googled the cr…
Well gang, It’s GABF season again! We are only seven very short weeks away from the fest and I’ve got to tell you that I always get excited about it. Wahooo!! For the uninitiated GABF stands for the Great American Beer Festival. The GABF …
I’m posting this a bit after the fact, but there’s a nice piece about Yuengling Brewing in the Washington Post (written by the always readable Greg Kitsock, the paper’s man on the beer-beat.)
Rivalry to heat up in light, high end.
The creation of MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch InBev is going to make the U.S. beer business more competitive than it is already.
Two big competitive battles will be in the light beer aisle and in the high end….