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Walmart making more room for craft beer

Walmart making more room for craft beer

According to Advertising Age, the world’s largest retailer is jumping on the craft beer bandwagon and adding more space in its stores for craft brews.

Brewery builds electric truck to deliver beer

Brewery builds electric truck to deliver beer

Happy Earth Day! We’ve talked a lot about how beer and homebrewing can be good for the environment and brewers who consider the impact of their business on the earth, but this is really cool. A Canadian brewer has converted an antique truck to electric to deliver their beer. They apparently are known for using [...]

ABITA BEER Releases iPhone App

ABITA BEER Releases iPhone App

Here is a press release from Abita Beer on it’s new iPhone app….I am downloading now! ABITA BEER – THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT! Abita Beer Launches First Of Its Kind iPhone App (New Orleans, LA) –The Abita Brewing Company is pleased to announce the launch of the new “Abita App” for iPhone®, iPod touch® [...]

PLOW-TO-PINT BEER FROM THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH

PLOW-TO-PINT BEER FROM THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH

I was talking to a local Chef, and he metioned this beer to me Fullsteam From beer made of sweet potatoes to a beer named Hogwash, this brewery in Durham, North Carolina is inspired by the agricultural and culinary traditions of the South. Our mission is to craft a distinctly Southern beer style using local [...]

Pretty Start Up

I want to open a brewery someday. So I love it when I see success stories about small breweries making it against the odds. Pretty Little Things Beer ans Ale was featured in an article at boston.com. “We called it a ‘project’ so we could close it down if we had to,’’ said Paquette, who [...]

The United States of Good Beer

The United States of Good Beer

The GOOD blog asked its readers to “nominate the most awesome, best-tasting, sustainably brewed, independently owned, community-oriented craft beer brewed in your state.” The result is the map below (click to embiggen). It’s interesting that Idaho doesn’t have a beer on the map. I lived there for four years and I can think of several [...]

Diamond Bear Launches A Double IPA

Diamond Bear Launches A Double IPA

Diamond Bear Brewery in Little Rock, AR launched it new brew Two Term IPA with help from the state’s governor. Two Term IPA Launch At Diamond Bear Brewery from beerutopia on Vimeo.

Bloomberg The Mentor: Jim Koch Guides Oceanside Ale Works

Bloomberg The Mentor: Jim Koch Guides Oceanside Ale Works

I had to add a cable box to upgrade to digital cable. A cable box…are we going back in time circa 1980? Well with all my frustration I was glad to see new channels. One is Bloomberg, I know your thinking who watches Bloomberg? Well they have some great business shows and one that is [...]

Enjoy Intercourse beer

Enjoy Intercourse beer

Craft brewers have to find ways to stand out in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Having a provocative name like Intercourse Brewing Company is definitely one way to do that. Courides founded the Intercourse Brewing Company (intercoursebrewingco.com), which she named after the rural Pennsylvania Amish community of Intercourse, ironically a dry town. The name always prompted [...]

You Arrogant Bastard!

You Arrogant Bastard!

Greg Koch of Stone Brewing Co, known for it’s Arrogant Bastard strong ale, started his Total Tap Tower Takeover Tour 2010. At Birch and Barley in Washington D.C. Stone Brewing dispensed 40 different beers. As cool as that sounds I found the most interesting comment was how they use the web and social media to [...]

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