Goose Island Releases Madame Rose
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Next time you're at your favorite liquor store, keep a sharp eye out for Goose Island limited release of Madame Rose. The Madame is a crimon colored Blgian style brown ale that's fermented with wild strains of yeast a...
Marketing tries to convince you that hard soda isn’t a fad
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But it probably is. I'm sure some brands will stick around longer than others and there will always be some portion of the shelf for flavored malt beverages but I don't really buy what the manufacturers are selling...
Bottle vs. Can vs. Draft
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I'm always a fan of the "Ask a Cicerone" segments at SeriousEats, but this one is especially great. It simplifies a topic that is often confusing to consumers and breaks it down with examples. In most cases, so long...
Growler delivery: for the intersection of sloth and gluttony
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If you're in the bay area and you love everything about draught beer except for leaving your couch to obtain it--good news! Hopsy, the recently launched online marketplace for local craft beer, today announced the la...
Sam Adams is bringing back one of their discontinued beers
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Full scoop at the full pint. Samuel Adams brewers will pull recipes from their “vault” and ultimately choose two winning brews to be re-released nationally for a limited time. Through online and in-person voting, dri...
(NSFW) Hipsters Love Beer
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I'm guilty of looking like these jackwagons on occasion--just with less-ironic attire. Get as pretentious as you want with your beer--just please do it with a smile instead of a hipster sneer.
Ranking the states by their beer
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[map via Aleheads.com] Thrillist has a piece over at Yahoo news ranking all 50 states by the quality and variety of beer they produce. Rankings are as fun as they are controversial. This list comes just in time...
Michael Jackson saved Saison
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I missed this a couple of weeks ago but it's worth sharing now. There are just a few "must-read" articles about beer every year and this is one of them. Writer Michael Jackson, who called Saison Dupont “a down-to-ea...
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 glory to the Hopnotoad: Hopville merges with Brewtoad
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You can read all about the merger here. The bottom line is that 2 of the best homebrew resources on the web are joining forces. If you've never used Brewtoad before, you should give it a try.