Duclaw Retribution – Single Barrel Bourbon Aged Imperial Stout
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Next week Duclaw Brewing Company is releasing their single barrel bourbon aged imperial stout - Retribution! This vengeful imperial stout has been aged for 6 months in charred white oak bourbon barrels, giving it rich...
People actually hate Sierra Nevada Pale Ale?
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Deadspin (or, Drunkspin more specifically) offered up this odd borderline-screed against people who (apparently) turn their nose up at Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. But anyone who drinks modern American craft beer yet deni...
Goose Island Black Mission Voted Chicago “Beer of the Week”
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Back in my old stomping grounds, Chicago, IL, Goose Island hit another one out of the park with their latest addition to their Fulton and Wood series, Black Mission. This Fig Newton inspired, Belgian Style Abbey ale i...
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...
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...
All aboard the SS Dry Hop – Cigar City literally dry hopping at sea
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Cigar City is brewing an IPA in Puerto Rico and dry hopping it during the return voyage to Tampa. Don't that beat all? Cigar City is currently brewing about 200 barrels of the beer at a time in Puerto Rico, dry-ho...
Increasing the case for cans
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The publication Advertising Age has a good write-up on the reasons why cans are a good idea for business as well as for beer in general. The most obvious reason to anyone that's ever been outside is that they're no...
The Synth-yeast Cometh
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Science can make a whole lot of things better. Why shouldn't beer be one of them? As Popular Mechanics reports, the Yeast 2.0 project has designed and written an 11-million-letter DNA code which is being snipped out...
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...
Heavy Seas calls Natty Boh a bunch of posers
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National Bohemian is a cheap macro beer and it ain't from around here. That's the not-so-subtle reminder implied in the new Heavy Seas t-shirt: [caption id="attachment_1431" align="alignnone" width="300"] Heavy Se...