Category: Breweries
Think of the children!
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I've been going through some articles I missed this year and have found some gems. This one from Porch Drinking is great. It's about the Ben & Jerry's / New Belgium cross promotion from earlier this year. “It’s...
First Beer of the Weekend – 5/1/2015
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Today's Required-Unwinder is "The Calling" DIPA from Boulevard. Got this in the growler at our local filling station. It pours a bit more orange than last week's offering, but still well within the standard IPA sp...
Jim Koch’s bonus structure makes no sense
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Jim Koch (of Sam Adams fame) is truly wealthy these days, but his bonus reflects a more humble business approach. BusinessWeek has the full break-down. But the bonus formula devised by the company’s board rewards Ko...
Hanson has a beer now.
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Sorry guys. Beer is over. It had a good run for a few thousand years but it's done now. It jumped the shark for sure. Hanson has their own beer. The MmmHops beer concept that the band revealed back in November ...
Stone needs your money?
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That's what they're claiming, anyway. Take a peek at the location we've secured in Berlin, complete with Death Star window and accompanied by sufficient space to create a truly magnificent experience worthy of flavor...
Stone coming to Alabama
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Pardon the interruption for a little local self-indulgence. Stone is finally coming to Alabama, just 5 short LONG years after the first Free The Hops bill reformed the beer laws in the state. A team of Sto...
America’s First Trappist
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According to the International Trappist Association (who gets to decide such things), Spencer Brewing operating out of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, MA has an official Trappist product. The beer is blond with 6.5% a...
The Grand Lore (and Lure) of KBS
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Ever wondered why you had to pay so much for a bottle, or have never even been able to find one? MLive.com (Michigan's statewide news portal) has a great piece on the background of the hypebomb that is Founders Ken...
Pliny brewer Russian River maxes out production
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In the world's most predictable story, Russian River ran out of beer due to excess demand recently. Workers hustled over to the main brewery off Santa Rosa Avenue and snagged a few cases of the flagship Pliny the Eld...
Surly to hit the skies!
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Surly is going to be offering their beers on some flights out of Minnesota. A million times yes. Minneapolis-based Sun Country Airlines may have just become America’s most attractive air carrier for beer geeks, as...