Specialty Beer News - Tuesday, March 12, 2011

Craft Beer Festival A Hit Once Again Patch.com By Joe Alfieri | Email the author | 8:00am Saturday's Bay Area Craft Beer Festival was everything promised by the organizers: a fun filled gathering of more than 30 craft brewers offering a wide variety of brews to a crowd well in excess of a thousand. ...

Pierre Celis, Brewer of Hoegaarden and Celis Beer, Dead at 86 Houston Press (blog) By the mid-1990s he was again brewing wheat beer in the style famous to Hoegaarden, now called Celis Beer, and making a name for himself as one of the early leaders of the American craft beer movement. And yet again, his investors went corporate on him ... Houston Press (blog)

Tuesday Vancouver Sun BC Is emerging as a mecca for craft beer enthusiasts as our innovative brewers sweep competitions at home and abroad. Artisanal beers boast sophistication and refinement. In a four-part series starting in Wednesday's Vancouver Sun, reporter Randy Shore ...

Chug, chug, chug: Larry Liston's beer bill goes down quick Westword (blog) By Jonathan Shikes, Mon., Apr. 11 2011 @ 5:40PM ​Many of the people who work in Colorado's craft beer industry believe that brewer-in-chief Governor John Hickenlooper would never sign a bill allowing grocery and convenience stores to sell full-strength ...

Readers favored beer and college statements PolitiFact Source: Austin American-Statesman Our checks of legislators' statements about growth in college tuition and the craft beer industry finished neck and neck as reader favorites last week. We also dug into how many Texas college students arrive ...

Venti's plans new location in South Salem Statesman Journal Beside craft beer fans, Venti's also wants the new location to appeal to families. It's creating a "kids space" to keep children entertained, Venti said. Jeff Corner of First Commercial Real Estate Services LLC represented Venti's and the building's ...

This Week in Beer: DC Brau Launch, Flying Dog Exclusive, Brew Cruise and More Washington City Paper (blog) It's another big week for craft beer fans in DC There is plenty to do from fancy multi-course pairing dinners to casual pay-as-you-drink draft nights and even a beer cruise on the Potomac. Read on for my picks or click on any event in the DC Beer ...

Review Preview: Six Row Brewing Company Riverfront Times (blog) Last month's news that Anheuser-Busch InBev is purchasing Chicago's Goose Island brewery is one more confirmation of the obvious: Craft beer is big business. According to the Brewers Association, a trade group, retail sales of craft beer grew by 12 ... Riverfront Times (blog)

Google the site Search our articles archive Search for an event Chicago Reader (blog) It shared space with a longer piece on the booming craft beer industry. "A lot of things are in the air right now," Rosenthal says. "My own take is that this is the kind of storytelling we're interested in." On Tuesday morning, the Tribune provided a ... Chicago Reader (blog)