Forget the Black Friday deals and get drunk
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Lakefront is once again making a special one-off batch to be released on Black Friday. Even if you hit them up to avoid the horrorscape of holiday-crazed shoppers, you may still have to get up early and get in line. ...
Bud Light is even more popular than you might think.
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Holy crap: that's a lot of Bud Light. [Bold added for emphasis:] If you add up every case of imported beer, craft beer, hard cider, and flavored malt beverages sold in 2013, you get 270,194,987. Bud Light sold 294,7...
Kentucky Breakfast Stout Hypestravaganza 2015
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It's that time of year. Time to buy plane tickets and book hotel rooms to purchase a couple of beers. I'm not joking. This years annual circus of insanity includes vacation packages and a whole week of events and...
New documentary series on San Diego beer from PBS
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It's called "Kings of the Craft". Check out the trailer above. Debuts this Thursday, May 21st at 9pm on PBS stations and will be streaming online the following day.
Bigfoot is tall (as in vertical)
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Paste has a vertical tasting review that will make all barleywine lovers drool. Not everyone has the patience and discipline to buy and save the same beer for eight consecutive beers, but I can tell you the payoff of...
Postmaster General wants to lift ban on alcohol delivery
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Since FedEx and UPS have been doing it forever, this kind of seems like a no-brainer. Donahoe said delivering alcohol has the potential to raise as much as $50 million a year. He mentioned how customers might want to...
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...
Cool New Beer Apps
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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 drinking craft beer. The app enables users to “check in” for every bee...
Germany beer market is down in the dumps
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When you think of the German beer market, words like "decline" , "slump", or "collapse" would probably seem bizarre. But Reuters published an interesting piece about this ongoing long-term phenomenon and it's a much ...
Beer on a Budget
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Serious Eats has yet another great "Ask a Cicerone" feature, this time on how to find the best brew for your buck. There's some fairly obvious familiar brands that keep coming up like Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada, b...