Articles Posted in the BEER TOPICS Category
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Looking for your Dream Job as a Head Brewer? Modern Times Beer is Hiring!
Are you currently a head brewer looking for a new and fun opportunity? Well, if you are willing to relocate to Sunny Southern California, I have got the dream job for you! My friends over at Modern Times Beer in San Diego, CA are looking to hire a skilled, experienced, process-oriented Head Brewer! Modern Times Beer [...]
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Prost! 10 American O-Fest Beers Worth Trying
This Saturday kicks of the 179th Oktoberfest — the largest and, quite possibly, the most drunken party in the world. As with many regional designations in the alcohol world (Bourbon, Bordeaux, Trappist to name a few), the label “Oktoberfest” is reserved for only the beer produced within the city walls of Munich, Germany. Oktoberfest Beer [...]
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LA Beer Week Event Preview: Craft Beer, Prickly Pears, Poutine and More!
Although the city of LA is mostly associated with Hollywood, fake boobs and horrible traffic, Los Angeles is slowly but surely emerging as one of California’s best beer cities. More and more buzz-worthy breweries, beer bars, and gastropubs are popping up in The City of Angels. What was once a beer desert, LA is slowing [...]
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Dogfish Head & Sierra Nevada Team Up Again to Brew an East-meets-West Imperial IPA
Three years ago, I had the honor of attending the release party for Sierra Nevada‘s first-ever collaboration beer, Life & Limb, in San Francisco. For the its first collaboration project, Sierra chose good friend Dogfish Head, a collaboration beer veteran. Technically speaking, they released two beers that day; Life & Limb and Limb & Life [...]
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[Video] Strawberry Blonde Brewjito via Cooking Stoned
Thanks to my awesome and ever-talented friends, Chris Eldridge & Jerry James Stone, some of my beer cocktail recipes have been turned into snazzy videos! This particular video is for the “Strawberry Blonde Brewjito” — a beer-inspired twist on the classic mojito. “Made with fresh strawberries, American blonde ale and agave nectar…this mojito is anything [...]
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Whole Foods Market® and the Beer Wench present Beers for Brunch Twitter Tasting
Move over mimosas and bellinis, Champagne isn’t the only sparkling beverage worthy of the brunch table. Fruit beers and ciders boast the same fruity effervescence worthy of washing down your Belgian waffles, chocolate chip pancakes, eggs Benedict, and yes folks, all things bacon!! On August 23, from 6-7 p.m. CST, join Whole Foods Market and [...]
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The Hunt for New Belgium’s “Red Hoptober” Begins Now!
Just when I thought all the possible hop pun beer names have been thought of, New Belgium announced the release of a brand spanking new seasonal — Red Hoptober, a deep garnet ale featuring Eldorado red hops. Weighing in at 6% abv and 45 IBUs, Red Hoptober is a dark garnet ale with a bright [...]
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Farmer’s Market to Keg: Brewing Innovation at Goose Island’s Clybourn Pub
As an advocate of both craft beer and Slow Food, I really admire the mindful brewers who take “extra” steps to produce artisanal beers inspired by local ingredients. One such brewmaster is Jared Rouben of Goose Island’s Clybourn Pub in Chicago, IL (still a privately owned brewpub which was NOT included in the Goose Island [...]
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Mark the Date: 2012 Great American Beer Festival Tickets On Sale August 2nd
As if IPA Day wasn’t reason enough to celebrate craft beer on August 2nd, the Brewer’s Association recently announced that public admission tickets to the 2012 Great American Beer Festival will go on sale starting August 2nd, until they are sold out. For those lucky enough to be Brewer’s Association members (aka breweries), American Homebrewers [...]
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Beer News: California Governor Signs Bill to Protect Barrel-aged Beer
As you can imagine, alcohol laws in the United States are very strict, highly controversial and extremely wonky. Sadly, a significant amount of today’s alcohol legislation has deep roots to the post-Prohibition Era, making many alcohol laws irrelevant and simply stupid. But, as with many idiosyncrasies in our government, some of these stupid laws are [...]
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