Aussie brewer creates first no-carb beer

Burleigh Brewing, a small independent craft brewer in Queensland, Australia, claims to have created the first no-carb beer. The 88 calorie BIGHEAD Beer is a “full-flavoured, full-strength lager that is 100% natural, free of additives and preservatives, and has a smooth, clean taste.” That’s an impressive claim. Burleigh Brewing’s CEO, Peta Fielding, said BIGHEAD’s arrival [...]

Beer Utopia unwittingly assaults the Twitterverse

Today Beer Utopia experienced a technical glitch that sent out dozens of Twitter alerts to our loyal followers. We humbly beg your forgiveness and promise it won’t happen again. We understand the anger and confusion that followed this fiasco but rest assured this was not an attempt to take over the Twitterverse via brute force [...]

Interactive beer pairing guide

We’ve covered several beer pairing guides on Beer Utopia, as well as made our own suggestions, but this is the first interactive guide I have seen. It’s a seasonal guide so it’s the most complete I’ve seen and it was made for Michigan beer lovers but it’s worth a look. There is also some non-interactive [...]

Budweiser announces 1400 layoffs

Anheuser-Busch, has announced that it will eliminate “1,400 U.S. salaried positions in its beer-related divisions, affecting about 6 percent of the company’s total U.S. workforce.” Plus, 250 vacant positions will not be filled and 415 independent contractors will also be cut. This is in addition to 1000+ employees who chose a voluntary enhanced early retirement. [...]

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The beer lover’s holiday gift guide

We have suggested a few gifts for beer lovers in the past but DrinkCraftBeer.com has taken the time and trouble to put together a very comprehensive 2008 Holiday Gift Guide for the Beer Lover in Your Life that is worth checking out. Have a beer lover in your life, or are you one yourself? We [...]

Celebrating 75 years of legal drinking

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the official end of the failed social experiment known as Prohibition. On December 5, 1933, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th Amendment. With two-thirds of the states ratifying the amendment, 13 years of Prohibition came to an end. (It’s ironic that [...]

3 West Coast Beers from Laurelwood, Russian River, and Bridgeport

A review of three west coast beers: Laurelwood Brewery’s Organic Free Range Red, Russian River’s Pliny the Elder, and Bridgeport’s Hop Harvest Ale. Beers from Portland, Oregon and Santa Rosa, California. Originally posted at beerandscifi.com

v-POD combines beer tap with TV

For the home barkeep who has everything of the bar owner who wants to add some flash to the tap, the MICRO MATIC v-POD has an LCD TV built into a multi-tap draft beer tower. Draft Beer Tower Product Highlights: Video excitement at the Point of Dispense! The new v-POD is a blank canvas – [...]

New Yorker and Craft Beer

Here is a great article from the New Yorker about craft beer and Dog Fish Head Brewery. It is a 10 page article so get a brew and settle in for a good read. Maybe it will inspire you to start a brewery.