Archive for October, 2008

Musings Over a Pint: Capital Ale House Update – Tentative Opening Date Set

The new Capital Ale House location in Fredericksburg has a tentative opening date of October 31. Readers will recall that the incentives granted by the City of Fredericksburg require Capital Ale House to be open by November 1, so it does seem to be co…

Musings Over a Pint: Coastal to Close Old Dominion Brewery

Well, it’s been an on again, off again rumor, but it looks as if the end is nigh for Old Dominion Brewery in Ashburn, VA. Mid-Atlantic Brewing News reporter Gregg Wiggins posted this press release from Coastal Brewing, the Old Dominion parent company,…

Celebrate with seven years of Celebration Nov. 1st

At the 2007 OBF Brewers Parade, Bob Brewer took a Swiss army knife to his beer mug handle so he could hang it from his pocket. Then, being Bob Brewer, he took a photo of it and probably uploaded…

The Beer Here – OregonLive.com: Celebrate with seven years of Celebration Nov. 1st

At the 2007 OBF Brewers Parade, Bob Brewer took a Swiss army knife to his beer mug handle so he could hang it from his pocket. Then, being Bob Brewer, he took a photo of it and probably uploaded…

beernews.org: Craft Beer Release Dates UPDATED!

The new Craft Beer Release Dates list goes 313 BEERS deep from Oct. 1 to the end of the list (Hair of the Dog Bourbon Barrel Adam in 2016!). The list is over 500 beers long counting early 2008 releases which are now ‘archived.’ Sortabil…

Draft Magazine Feed: Here come the holidays

Oktoberfest isn’t even over, and yet its already time for holiday beers — but can you blame the breweries preemptive strike when stores start selling decorations for Halloween in August, Thanksgiving in September and Christmas in October? …

Brookston Beer Bulletin: Hop Obama

Sixpoint Craft Ales in Brooklyn, New York has released an IPA called Hop Obama, though at 42-44 IBUs it doesn’t sound like too much of a hop bomb, at least not to my extreme west coast hop sensibilities. But perhaps a more centrist IPA is in ke…

Realbeer.com Beer Therapy: Kegerator Social Network

Those of you who receive the Realbeer.com Newsletter, RBPMail, may have noticed a link problem in the following ad:
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It’s The Beer Talking: Offbeat News: Finding God at a beer fest

If you are looking to find God for whatever reason, you may want to start by looking at a beer festival.The Associated Press’ religion writer found him (or her) at the 27th Great American Beer Festival. You can read the full article here.
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Barley Blog, The: Beer vs Wine on Twitter

So I’ve been using Twist (a Twitter trends/comparison tool) to research a few other projects the past week or so and decided to compare “beer” vs “wine” to see how much action each gets on Twitter. As of last month, &#822…