First Beer of the Weekend – 4/24/2015
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Another southern California nectar this week. Stone Cali-Belgique Belgian IPA. Pours a bronzy-orange with little to no head like a proper IPA. Good IPA pour. You get a treat. The lacing is razor thin and almost per...
Millennials don’t like beer? Balderdash.
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Beervana has a good blog post response to the recent WaPo piece that made the rounds. We have known for years that the drinks market is getting more crowded as it matures, and that cider, micro-distilled liquors, and...
India Session Ales: Hot New Trend or Big Fat Meh?
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These things have many names as an "emerging" style trend, but the basic format is the same: (relatively) heavy on hops, low on alcohol. To those of us in oppressive summer clients, the arrival of beers like Founde...
Straight Outta Braavos
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The Game of Thrones beers from Brewery Ommegang keep rolling out. Up next is possibly the best. Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, New York has had major success with its series of Game of Thrones-inspired beer, and i...
A hangover by any other name
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Brookston has a great piece compiling information on the history of the term "hangover" and other phrases that have been used. Believe it or not, apparently the word “hangover,” meaning “a severe headache or other af...
‘Tis The Season (for stouts & porters)
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Brewbound has a great write-up on the underappreciated dark beer styles, just in time for your a contrasted white Christmas. The rub is pretty obvious to anyone that's ever talked about beer with a novice: “When i...
First Beer of the Weekend – 4/17/2015
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Shutting down the work week with this glorious nectar. The deep orange pour immediately tells you that this ain't your grandpa's IPA. This is fresh and interesting. There is an amazing note of sweet grapefruit and ...
Happy 10th Birthday Stone Ruination IPA!
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Hop heads rejoice! In celebration of Stone Ruination IPA's 10th birthday, Stone Brewing Company is releasing the cleverly-named (...not) Stone Ruination Tenth Anniversary IPA, a 10.8% abv bitter hop monster! Normal Ru...
The real reasons behind rising hops prices
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Brewers Association has the straight dope. First, the prices for hops are pretty much in line with the US crop sector generally (prices to growers, dealer markups may change this). The graph below shows an index of h...
Hopped To Death
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"Come in and have a seat. America, we're here today to tell you that you have a problem. You're addicted to hops and we want to help you get better." At least that's the charge over at Slate. From a consumer’s s...