Craft had another great year!
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2013 was another great year for craft's continued growth (or contribution to the brewing bubble, depending on your perspective). Craft Beer sales in key U.S. retail channels grew 19.2 percent in 2013, according to ne...
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 ...
Founders Inspired Artist Black IPA benefits world’s biggest art competition
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I'll be honest. While this is a very worthy cause, I mostly wanted to blog about this totally awesome label. It's one of the most interesting labels I've seen in some time. The Full Pint has The Full Story. In Apri...
Founders 15th Anniversary Barley Wine – Bolt Cutter!
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Today Founders Brewing Company announced the release of their 15th anniversary barley wine, Bolt Cutter. This 15% ABV barley wine will be available in Founder's own taproom through a ticketed release system November 1...
An empty beer festival in Denver? How, even?
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It was a real thing that happened. Sierra Nevada had room for 5,000 people, but ended up admitting only about 1,600. That meant no line at the entrance, no lines for beers -- the longest was about five people at t...
Walking Dead themed beer contains actual brains
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Tonight's the premier of the next-to-last episode this season, so this announcement is pretty well-timed. I suppose with it's enormous cultural impact that it was only a matter of time before someone made a Walking...
Fear not your beer contents
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If you missed the social media hype storm a couple of weeks ago about Very Bad Things(tm) showing up in beer then consider yourself lucky. It set off my balderdash alarm bells immediately, but thousands retweeted and...
Pabst used to make an IPA, apparently.
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I'm too young to have even heard of this beer, I guess. But yes, at one point Pabst was brewing up one of the boldest beers in the US. But it fell away from the memory of most after it halted production of Ballantin...
Before the glory: Oregon’s humble beer origins
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Tom Acitelli over at All About Beer has a nice, short read about Oregon's beer culture origins. It wasn't always so potent. It was not a hit with consumers, nor were subsequent batches. “The beer wasn’t great and th...
Bells expanding their footprint
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I've always felt blessed that Bell's decided to come to Alabama when they did. They were among the first in line to distribute here when the state reformed its beer laws in 2008. Now a few more spots in the US are...