Category: Breweries
Anheuser-Busch slashing prices of Shock Top, Goose Island
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It's a clever marketing strategy. It seems AB distributors in parts of Oregon and Washington (the reach of the campaign is uncertain) have issued updated price lists containing massive price drops on the Shock Top an...
Wil Wheaton has a beer and it sounds amazing
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In the incoming horde of celebrity collaborations/endorsements of beer brands, comes this offering that may actually be as delicious as it is bizarre. Apparently it's as easy as being a famous geek and telling a br...
Are beers getting generally crappier?
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Michael Agnew at GrowlerMag seems to think so. I’m talking about beer with real, quantifiable flaws. I mean seriously under-attenuated beers that taste like wort. Diacetyl-laden butter bombs. Flat-tasting beers with ...
Beer Hates Astronauts
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What the. I don't even. This is just the latest step in creator Ryan Browne's attempt to dominate the world by means of one of the most unsummarizable comics in existence. Having recently Kickstarted the deluxe hardc...
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...
Stone “Runinating” the countryside
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Stone hilariously typo'd their signature beer on the packaging for their new variety pack. Runination? Yep, Runination. Hey, we’re not proud of it. It’s a bummer to have our Art Department put together such a gre...
Dogfish Head piles on the low-alcohol year-round release trend
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Yep, Namaste is going year-round. Dogfish will transition Namaste, the company’s 4.8 percent, Belgian-style white beer — previously available only in 750 mL champagne-style bottles on a limited basis — into regularly...
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...
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...
NPR has more on craft vs. “crafty”
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This is the probably the best primer I've seen so far about "crafty" beer distorting consumer understanding. Small breweries are transforming into big ones, while big breweries are masquerading as small brands, selli...