Articles Posted in the Beer News Category
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Bistro Jeanty + The Beer Wench Announce Napa’s First Beer vs. Wine Dinner
Napa, CA – Wine dinners are plentiful in wine country. Beer dinners, on the other hand, rarely occur. And dinners with both beer and wine on the table are virtually non-existent. But not anymore. This December 8th at 6pm, Yountville’s Michelin star-awarded restaurant Bistro Jeanty will be presenting the first ever beer vs. wine dinner [...]
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Homebrewing On Campus: The Future of Craft Beer?
Right now, Rod Stewart’s voice is echoing in my brain: “I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger.” Not gonna lie, the closest I got to drinking craft beer in college was probably Guinness. Okay, that is a lie. My parents always had some sort of craft or imported beer [...]
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Craft Beer Advocacy: Join the Fight to Save Cigar City’s Tasting Room
If you have some sort of connection to the online craft beer community, you are probably aware of the recent legal turmoil facing Cigar City Brewing Company (based in Tampa, FL). If not, well have no fear. That is what I am here for! For those that don’t remember, Cigar City Brewery faced opposition from [...]
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“Beer is Proof God Loves Us”: Uncovering the Craft and Culture of the Brewing Industry
The other day I received an email from a great wine blogger friend of mine, Thea Dwelle of Luscious Lushes, regarding a new craft beer book that just hit the market. She passed my information on to the publisher, who provided me with an exciting press release and a free online version of the book [...]
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Session #44: Blogger Roundup
Sincere apologies to all the bloggers who participated for taking an extra day to compile the round-up. A weekend full of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, craft beer and travel made any sort of Internet work almost impossible. Alas, let us move on. For two years now, beer bloggers have been partaking in a community exercise called [...]
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May The Force Be With You: Aussies To Test First “Space” Beer
If Darth Vadar had access to beer in outer space, the plot for Star Wars might have been a bit different… Whether it’s due to lack of oxygen from the cabin pressure, dehydration, or other unknown factors, anyone whose ever indulged in an adult beverage or two (or three or four) while flying in an [...]
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GABF Craft Beer Activism Panel Announced
Crowds of enthusiasts don’t visit salsa factories, and no one geeks out over the chance to meet a soda maker. There isn’t a Great American Wine Festival, and people don’t line up for the chance to buy special release potato chips. Craft beer fans differentiate this industry from all others. From introducing craft beer to [...]
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Mutinous Battle Chai Release Party Announcement
Unless you have been hiding under a rock (or in a cave) all summer, you probably have gotten wind about the Mutineer Magazine + New Holland Brewing Company collaboration beer. After several months of buzzing about the beer on various social media platforms, the time for its official unveiling is upon us. Mutinous Battle Chai [...]
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Announcing Session #44 — “Frankenstein Beers”
The Session is the brain child of beer blogging veterans Stan Hieronymus of Appellation Beer and Jay Brooks of Brookston Bulletin. On the first Friday of each month, all participating bloggers write about a predetermined topic. Each month a different blogger is selected to host The Session. The blogger gets to choose the topic (provided [...]
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Session #43: Welcoming the “New Kids” — Kern River Brewing Company
I’m embarrassed to admit that, although I have been aware of it for some time, I have not yet participated in “The Session” — a.k.a. Beer Blogging Friday. It is the brainchild of beer blogging gurus Jay Brooks of Brookston Beer Bulletin and Stan Hieronymus of Appellation Beer. For over three years now, the dynamic [...]
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