Newcastle has some Super Bowl Ad Weirdness
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The adorable Aubrey Plaza requests your brand's help in branding some brandage. In other words: Newcastle is continuing with its befuddling strategy of convincing people that a beer available in basically any estab...
Japan’s craft beer scene–whodathunkit?
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Found via reddit, this Danish traveler's accounting of his tour of Japan is fascinating on many levels. I decided to get as much liquid culture as possible, so first came the research, can you actually get good beer ...
All Day IPA tops Founders sales already
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I knew this stuff was good and incredibly drinkable but I'm surprised that this 3-month old product is already beating Founders more storied/famous beers in terms of sales. I'd expect this to lead to more than a fe...
Stone coming to Alabama
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Pardon the interruption for a little local self-indulgence. Stone is finally coming to Alabama, just 5 short LONG years after the first Free The Hops bill reformed the beer laws in the state. A team of Sto...
Devil’s advocate for the three-tier system
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Mike Mazzoni (a weighty veteran of the beer industry, especially big beer companies) made some comments recently somewhat in defense of the three-tier system. His underlying point: the three-tier system has benefit...
“Average” Breweries
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Beer vs. Beer has a good blog post about the role of your typical neighborhood non-barrel-aged imperial hype machine type brewery. If a brewery is pumping out just average or slightly below average beer, does it mat...
The guy suing over Blue Moon is an idiot
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BeerGraphs lists all the salient points in this case and tries to be nice about it. But doesn't everyone do this? Your Mercedes dealer isn't required to tell you that you are buying a Chrysler. There's no mention of ...