Sunday, May 22, 2011

Specialty Beer News

American Craft Beer Week is here
Make sure to stop by one of SB's brewpubs this weekend to celebrate American Craft Beer Week (May 16 – 22). This weeklong affair brings a spectacle of beer-centric events around the nation to honor our country's burgeoning craft beer industry. ...

From peaches and cherries to beer and wine, Michigan is a food lover's paradise
The owner of Michigan-based Villas and Vines saw local artisans making cheese, craft beers, smoked fish and award-winning wines. He looked around at the rolling orchards of peaches and cherries and the fields of blueberries and realized, ...

Food Network show seeks food truck fare
But those at the Navy Yard at Noisette sipping craft beer and eating Ambergre Sloan's vegan Diggity Doughnuts already were in heaven. Sloan, 36, is able to serve a surprisingly large and eclectic variety of flavors out of her teal food truck. ...

Earthquake not a setback for Speight's
“We'd normally only do seven beers, you know the normal beers that you see in the pubs and one or two of our craft beers. Now we're doing something like 31,” says brewery manager John Craig. Work's largely been halted at the company's Canterbury ...

Britain's new "MasterChef"? American Tim Anderson
Beer is how Tim Anderson made his way to food and beer is still how he earns his living. Despite his new national acclaim, Anderson still goes to his day job managing Euston Tap, a craft beer pub in the old gatehouse to London's Euston Station. ...

Beer Class at Punk's Backyard Grill: Hops
One of the four main ingredients in beer, hops do a lot of work to create the aromas and flavors that we love. From clean Pale Ales to “hop-bomb” IPAs, this class explores the varieties and roles of hops in craft beer. Learn about and taste five

Lager Head's Smokehouse brings brew accolades back home to Medina
Sun Star Courier (blog)
The Lager Head's Smokehouse crew picked up two awards at the craft brew competition. The IX Center was transformed into a regional Mecca for beer lovers May 13 and 14 when the International Beer Fest took over Cleveland. The crew from Medina's Lager

A Look Back On This Week's Top Stories: May 15-21
Craft Beer Week Pick: O'Shy's Tap House Has 46 Beers On Tap: Okay so Craft Beer Week is over, but that doesn't mean you can't drink up. Our weekly Largo Dive Bars feature on O'Shy's is an off-the-cuff review of the bartender's top choices.


New brewer joins the Houston beer scene
The brewery opens at a time of blistering growth in craft beer around the state. Houston's Saint Arnold Brewing Co. and Hill Country-based Real Ale have both vaulted into the nation's 50 largest craft breweries. Several others have entered the business


Bethesda Celebrates Craft Beers
May 14 - 22 marks National Craft Beer Week. For beer officiandos, it's a week to celebrate the talents of our local brew masters. In Bethesda, it was Rock Bottom's week to shine. The restaurant/brewery posted a list of recently brewed beers (see photo ...


Craft Beer, An American Tradition
As we celebrate American Craft Beer Week, we can look back at a rich history in this country -- right from the very beginning -- of having access to some of the greatest home-grown beers in the world. In fact, prior the birth of our nation,

Craft Beer Week Pick: O'Shy's Tap House Has 46 Beers On Tap
The area fostered good conversation over an extensive selection of quality craft beers. Based on Phil's recommendations, I sampled the 'best of ' multiple categories that O'Shy's has to offer. This included cider, ale, lager, stout and wheat ale. ...

First Craft Brew Festival Downtown Des Moines Saturday
By Christina Palladino - email Hundreds of people are expected to sample local beer downtown for the first ever Craft Brew Festival. Iowa's wine industry ranks 14th in the country for the number of wineries in the state. All that wine brings in a lot


Question of the Day: What is Your Favorite Long Island Craft Beer?
Two new store are promising to open this summer selling craft brews or beer making kits for the aspring brew master and Long Island Craft Beer Week is running through May 22. There's plenty of brewers on Long Island to choose from: Blue Point, ...

Now open: Republic, a craft beer bar at Seven Corners
Gone are the obnoxious beer banners. Sgt. Preston's is a mere afterthought after the debut this week of Republic, a new bar headed up by Matty O'Reilly (of Aster Cafe and 318 Cafe). The new bar on the block was quite the scene last night. ...

Craft Beer Week continues. . .
Americans have been told that Miller Lite is a pilsner beer, and full marks go to those advertising gurus whose hysterical laughter cannot be heard through those ad campaigns. Even without Big Beverage's interference, pilsners have had a rough go ...

New Glarus Brewing's Deb Carey is first runner-up in national small business ...
With the high finish, Carey, one of only a few women nationally to own and operate a brewery, will bring renewed recognition to the state's growing craft beer industry, said Tom Porter, owner and brewmaster of Lake Louie Brewing in Arena. ...


Things are a Brewin' at Two Brothers
By Tina Tuszynski | Email the author | 11:00am A craft beer is, by its very definition, a community beer. According to the Brewers Association, a craft brewer is small, with an annual production of less than six million barrels annually. ...


Big Rock looks to China for suds sales
With a growing craft beer market in China, local brewery Big Rock is eager to explore what opportunities may be available in the nation of a billion people. "We've had our beer sold in other parts of the world with great success and we're thinking this ...