Hillcrest Brewing Company, First LGBT Brewery, Opens Next Week
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In San Diego's vibrant neighborhood of Hillcrest, the first micro brewery targeting lesian, gay, bisexual, and transgender customers, Hillcrest Brewing Company, is stepping out of the closet next week! Owner, Chris Sh...
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...
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...
Duclaw X-5 Sorachi Ace IPA Back on Tap!
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Duclaw Brewing Company's 5th experiemtn in the eXile series, X-5 Sorachi Ace IPA, is back on tap Thursday, June 14th at 11am. This medium bodied IPA blends the flavor and aromas of Japanese lemon grass with Sorachi Ac...
Some real talk about Lager
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Hot Rum Cow has a good write-up on why you shouldn't dismiss lagers as pale, flavorless abominations. Simply put, you're probably just not drinking the right ones. The style has been open to abuse by unscrupulous br...
More Metal
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Not metal as in metallic, but metal as in holy crap look at those labels--SO METAL. First, there's a new Game of Thrones brew, and it's about as metal as it gets: [caption id="attachment_1478" align="alignnone" ...
Interactive map of craft beer in America
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The New Yorker has a super-cool interactive map of some craft beer stats across the country. Glad to see my buddy Bo Hick's new joint, Druid City Brewing on the big board.
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...
Baltimore Beer Author, Rob Kasper, Signing Books @ DuClaw
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Rob Kasper, author of "Baltimore Beer: A Satisfying History of Charm City Brewing" will be at DuClaw Brewing Company's Bel Air location this Saturday, July 21st, selling and signing copies of his new book. The books g...
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...