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Cool New Beer Apps
Check out this announcement of a few new beer apps for mobile devices. Of particular interest is this: Beer Hunt adds a competitive dimension to…
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Consolidation Watch: What Happens When Big Beer Buys Your Favorite Craft Brewery
The story has played out enough times now that it has a familiar arc. A beloved regional brewery — one with a strong identity, loyal…
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Colorado is strangely afraid of selling craft beer in supermarkets
I don’t even know where to start with this piece about Colorado’s beer regulations. The truth: You don’t want grocery chains jumping into full-strength alcohol sales…
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College Beer Playoffs
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…
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Cigar City to make “Impaled Ale” for GWAR B-Q
Look, this is exactly what it sounds like: “Once again, we blow the horn of war and set into motion the gears that grind us…
Beer Reviews
Cheers, Star Wars fans!
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…
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Century-old beer for Christmas?
The often-fascinating Larsblog has a great post on a largely forgotten brewing tradition that resulted in some very old beer. After a few years, half…
Breweries
Cask vs. Nitro for creamy malt appreciation
Matt Canter at Anchor brewing has a great blog post detailing how each method works and what it does for the beer. Nitrogen-dispensed beers give…
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Canned Beer Turned 90 — And It Won
The beer can has had one of the great comeback arcs in American consumer product history. For decades it carried a reputation as the vessel…
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Budweiser’s incoherent and stupid super bowl ad
You probably saw it and choked on your robust barrel-aged imperial stout or your delicate, finely crafted Schwartzbier. Paste has the best response I’ve seen.…