Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Specialty Beer News - Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Goose Island selling to Anheuser-Busch
Chicago Tribune
Beer geeks are already wringing their hands that the sale of Goose Island Beer Co. to Anheuser-Busch -- better known as Budweiser -- will compromise one of craft beer's leading lights. But Goose founder and Chief Executive Officer John Hall said the ...
This Stone ale has a craft beer kick
MyCentralJersey.com
Stone Double Bastard Ale, an example of a fine craft beer, is more sipper than quaffer. / STAFF PHOTO: MARK SPIVEY A deep, dark amber with shades of copper and ruby, accented by a thin off-white head and clingy lacing. Huge notes of rich malt, ...
Debate on beer bill laid over until today
The Coloradoan
"We hope to join the other 45 states that allow customers to purchase real beer." McEvoy said the bill will reduce the amount of shelf space craft brewers have for their products. "We are the Napa Valley of craft beer, and craft brewers will lose a ...
More than 30 brewers expected at second Bay Area Craft Beer Festival
San Jose Mercury News
By Dana Guzzetti The upcoming Bay Area Craft Beer Festival in Martinez shows the Bay Area's rising reputation as home to a thriving beer culture and community. "The Bay Area is one of the premiere places for craft beer," Justin Crossley, ...
Whole Foods Gets Behind the Bar
NACS Online
The upscale grocer is testing bars inside the store that sell craft beers and local wines. by RSS Feed by Email MCLEAN, Va. – Move over Starbucks, Whole Foods is stealing a page from your playbook. The upscale grocer is raising the bar, literally, ...
BlackboardEats to host pop-up dinner featuring Walter Manzke at Biergarten in ...
Los Angeles Times (blog)
That's when the Web-based restaurant-deal service will send out an offer to attend a $49 four-course dinner prepared by chef Walter Manzke and paired with bottomless pitchers of craft beer from San Diego. The one-night-only event, which is also being ...
What's on Tap: Better beer at NIOSA
San Antonio Express
One of the real bummers about going to big outdoor festivals is that the beer selection is almost always a letdown. For the craft beer drinker, it's especially painful to pay premium prices for lousy macro lagers. The fine folks running Night in Old ...
Beer giant buys a craft brewery
Marketplace
Pirko: It's difficult to reconcile how you are in that business producing a very large amount of beer with this other sort of boutique-y business and that you have a clash of values. These are almost two different products. Craft beers like Goose ...
Lyme Regis: Ale nearly runs out at popular beer festival
Bridport and Lyme Regis News
By Adrianne Maslen » Hundreds of people sampled some of West Dorset's finest craft beers and ciders at the Three Brewers Beer Festival at the Marine Theatre on Saturday. A festival called The Cobb Ale started in Lyme in the 14th century and lasted for ...
Revolution will bottle and can its beers
Chicago Tribune
But seeing his beer on shelves will be the culmination of a dream dating to when Deth was a Goose Island brewer in the late 1990s. Having seen the strain of keeping up with demand of other craft breweries, he will be limiting his beer to Cook County, ...