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List of Texas Breweries Attending 2011 GABF

List of Texas Breweries Attending 2011 GABF

There are currently over 470 breweries listed as attending the 2011 Great American Beer Festival (GABF). Texas has its largest showing ever with 22 breweries listed, up from the previous year of 19. I’m sure this number will continue to grow for the next few years as more of the startup breweries begin operations. The breweries representing [...]

Breweries Attending Denver Rare Beering III * Ongoing Release *

Breweries Attending Denver Rare Beering III * Ongoing Release *

The Pints4Prostates twitter feed is slowly releasing the names of the breweries attending the Denver Rare Beer Tasting III and so far they’ve mentioned the following: Alaskan Avery Big Sky Boston Beer Brooklyn Cascade Cigar City Dogfish Head Duck Rabbit Foothills Highland Laughing Dog Left Hand Lost Abbey New Belgium New Holland Rogue Sierra Nevada [...]

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 [...]

3 Oregon Beers From: Ninkasi, Roots, and Siletz

3 Oregon Beers From: Ninkasi, Roots, and Siletz

Ninkasi (Eugene, Oregon)- Believer Double Red Ale Coming into this beer I was not sure if I would dig it because I thought the Tricerahops Double IPA was a bit over the top and not well balanced. This one was a better beer in my opinion but still seemed to be lacking something. What I [...]

Support your local brewery – become a Beer Activist

Support your local brewery – become a Beer Activist

The $52 billion buyout of of Anheuser-Busch by InBev has grabbed a lot of headlines lately and highlights just how big the business of beer is. But, 97% of beer in this country is made by 3% of the breweries. This creates a marketplace in which the little guys have a hard time competing, even [...]

Breweries changing recipes to use less hops

Breweries changing recipes to use less hops

I have written before about the world-wide shortage of hops (and malts) that is causing the price of beer to go up. Now it seems the next logical step is already taking place: breweries are having to change their beer recipes to use less hops. Here’s the root of the problem: The bulk of U.S.-grown [...]

It’s American Craft Beer Week

It’s American Craft Beer Week

This week, May 12-18, is American Craft Beer Week. This week-long celebration of the “industry and culture of craft beer is an annual event. Changed to a weeklong event in 2006, the inaugural American Craft Beer Week was recognized by the U.S. Congress with House Resolution 753 (PDF file). The week has continued to grow [...]

2008 World Beer Cup winners announced

The Brewers Association holds the World Beer Cup every 2 years and took place this year in San Diego on April 15 & 16. Winners, which for the first time ever included a woman, get the right to say they brew the best beer in the world. This year, 644 breweries from 58 countries and [...]

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