Category: Breweries
New Belgium is (maybe?) looking for a buyer
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Reuters gave us the not-so-secret over the weekend. Employee-owned New Belgium Brewing Company, which owns craft beer brand Fat Tire, is looking for a buyer that could the value the U.S. company at more than $1 billi...
College Beer Playoffs
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CraftBeer.com started what I hope will be a grand tradition: a college craft beer playoff. I examined the top ten college football teams according to five beer-related areas: Number of craft breweries 2015 Grea...
Cheers, Star Wars fans!
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You knew it was coming... The marketing is strong with this one. Wit’s End has already begun their celebration, previewing one of their Star Wars themed beers from Tuesday to Thursday, leading up to the movie rele...
2015’s best new IPAs
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Mostly-wine-sometimes-beer site Vinepair has an interesting list. I do like the humility in this disclaimer: Here are eight of the best and most interesting new IPAs I was lucky enough to stumble across this year. (...
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout returns November 2016
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Not much else to say about this other than man your harpoons, whale-hunters. In case you're unfamiliar, this is a truly gigantic stout that is among the best beers for aging ever created. Brewed with a ridiculous ...
Founders Brewing’s Dave Engbers talks swinging for the fences
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Paste has a short interview with Dave about how they really turned it around with Dirty Bastard. Dirty Bastard was really the beer that got us on the right path where we broke out of our shell. It gave us the confide...
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...
Dogfish Head’s private capital infusion
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The big beer news this week is that Dogfish Head has sold a 15% stake to a private equity firm. Specific financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. On its website, LNK said it typically invests between $5...
Beer Reviewing Pros and Cons
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All About Beer has a very thoughtful (and thorough) piece on the ups and downs that go along with the avalanche of beer feedback available nowadays. “The beer websites, in particular the forum community on BeerAdvoca...
Hatin’ on Pumpkin-Hate
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Beer blog Joe Sixpack has some contrarian real-talk for all the pumpkin' haters. C’mon, people eat spicy food all summer, so why not spiced beer? In fact, one of the most popular warm-weather ales – Belgian-style ...