Craft beer, Homebrewing, Reviews
From the category archives:
When people who aren’t into beer hear me giving credit to the primary name in beer writing, it never fails … “Michael Jackson?! (snickering)”. This is always followed up by me correcting them with, “Not that Michael Jackson.” The Michael Jackson I’m talking about was a monster beer journalist who’d been at it for more than 30 [...]
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Todd over at BeerAdvocate.com recently posted about receiving an email that confirms a rumored upcoming fall seasonal from Sierra Nevada that will commemorate their 27th anniversary. It will be an American IPA with generous doses of Cascades. They’re going to be dry hopping this one, so it should be sporting that great citrus [...]
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My wife and I just got back from running errands. One of the stops was at Newport Market. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised to finally see some new additions to the beer aisle. AleSmith is one of those new additions, and it’s about damned time! Those guys are [...]
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My wife and I went to the open house at Deschutes today. It was centered around the release of their 19th Anniversary Ale (a continuation of their Bond Street Series). While talking with friends old and new, we found out a couple of interesting facts. First of all, I got a quick [...]
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Andy Crouch over at Beerscribe.com put together a great article describing observed moves by Anheuser-Busch in relation to trends in the craft beer industry. In the article, Andy sees the recent purchase of 40% of Goose Island by Widmer as history repeating itself.
To give some background, Redhook gave up 25% equity to A-B in [...]
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I usually steer clear of the rumor mill thing, but I found the story interesting enough to fuel that gossip fire by passing it along to anyone who finds their way to this corner of the brewniverse. It would seem that over the past week or so, several internet sites had been talking about a [...]
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