Monday, May 16, 2011

Weekly Specialty Beer News

T.G.I. Friday's® Brews a Summer Menu with the Flavors of Craft Beer
PR Newswire (press release)
The new menu combines innovative dishes with craft beer, proving that great food is "better with brew." Friday's® guests can celebrate the relationship between great food and a cold draft, pairing new seafood or steak dishes with the bold, ...

Move over Bud - local craft brews are selling big
The Virginian-Pilot
While overall beer sales held steady in the United States last year, sales of craft beers – made by small, independent breweries – rose more than 8 percent, to $7.6 billion from $7 billion in 2009, according to the Brewers Association in Boulder, Colo. ...

The Virginian-Pilot
Craft Beer Week On Tap
Gapers Block
The Chicago History Museum is hosting a week of educational events as a companion for the larger Chicago Craft Beer Week, which begins next Thursday. Tours of dive bars, Irish pubs, German bars, and samplings of IPA--complete with an educational ...

Gapers Block
Asheville wins Beer City poll again
Asheville Citizen-Times
For a third year, Asheville has been crowned Beer City USA in Papazian's online national poll. Raise a toast - Asheville is Beer City USA for a third consecutive year. Asheville's craft brewing community easily cruised to victory in the online 2011 ...


Beer + cookies = the perfect pairing?
Durham Herald Sun
So Jimmy VerVaecke and Alison Collins launched South Durham Confection Co., a business dedicated to the creation, baking and sale of savory cookies that can be paired with a range of different styles of craft beer. The two founders of the company, ...


The Black Angels, Craft Beer Week and The Chinese-Canadian Wartime Experience
The Province
There's a lot to take in at the second annual Craft Beer Week, which has tripled in size after the success of last year's festival. Tonight, there's a Belgian beer showcase at Biercraft on Cambie Street and a battle between a sommelier and cicerone at ...


Advertising agency Frank Unlimited breaks intro campaign for Redhook ...
dBusinessNews Seattle (press release)
Craft beer Redhook gets the lead role in “his” breaking print, outdoor, online and radio ad campaign, introducing a new shortneck bottle, and at the same time, personifying the brand's character attributes. The signature, leadoff ad reads, ...

Beer Snob Bicycle Pub Crawl: Photos from a Successful Drinking and Aerobic Event
Miami New Times (blog)
Saturday's third ever Beer Snob Bicycle Pub Crawl was the perfect way to see Miami's sights without a car. This occasional ride results in new friendships, tasting of hard-to-find craft beers, and learning about new bars. Over a hundred cyclists made ...

This year's Craft Beer Week kicks off on May 15
Providence Journal
You might not know Mayflower Brewing is making beers out of Plymouth, Mass. And who isn't happy to see Narragansett beers back cooling in the chiller? Every one of them is different and has its own story, but for this year's Craft Beer Week, ...

South Elgin Stanley's a home to craft beers, ballgames
Chicago Daily Herald
Many younger people have been drawn in by the craft beers, and Fridays often bring in the mid-20s set. Saturday is mostly 40 and up. Lunch draws senior citizens, while families flock in for dinner to take advantage of the $5 kids menu. ...

Asheville celebrates third Beer City USA title
Asheville Citizen-Times
What: Toast and celebration of Asheville's third Beer City USA poll win. The band Clouds of Greer performs. ASHEVILLE — Even the most passionate craft brew fans in Asheville were surprised Monday to learn the city had won a third consecutive Beer City ...

Father, son ready to brew new beer for local drinkers
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson has a strong community of enthusiasts who brew ales at home, but there's a shortage of local craft beers, Bruce Greene said. Both Greenes emphasized their beer will have a strong Southwestern feel, taking advantage of local ingredients when ...

The steady growth of session beers
Boston Globe (blog)
Great article on Advertising Age's website this morning about the growth of lower-alcohol craft beer. I've been predicting -- and hoping -- that the new trend in craft beer will be session beers, which are generally defined as those that contain no 

Wild Heaven beer hits metro Atlanta shelves
Bizjournals.com
The craft beer will be available first at Ale Yeah!, Ansley Wine Merchants, Beverage SuperStore, Bullock's Wine & Spirits in Woodstock; Cook's Warehouse in Decatur; Decatur Package; DeKalb Bottle House, DeKalb Farmer's Market, all locations of Green's ...

Maui Brewing Reports Q1 Growth in 2011
TheFullPint.com
Maui Brewing Co. has been recognized as Hawaii's #1 craft beer since 2005 and the company has a strong commitment to the local economy, and deep concern for the environment. MBC craft beers are packaged with the most eco-friendly materials. ...
Let brown ales reassure, comfort
Chicago Tribune
But sometimes when you arrive home at the end of a long day, all you're looking for is a beer that tastes good. Brown ales have long served as a sort of gateway beer into the craft brew world for many a beer geek, including yours truly. ...

Chicago Tribune
8 Malts, 8 Hops, & 8 % Alcohol
Patch.com
Before Cowan began to tell his tales of his ascent into Jewbelation, Nick Sharma from the Willows Market served free samples of the beer. The local grocer has about 600 craft beers in stock, including He'Brew beers. Steve Masmussen from the Milk Pail ...

Getting Up Guide: Tuesday, May 10
Washington Post (blog)
Let's have a look at what's happening in and around DC tonight: •The Washington Ballet's ever-popular Beer and Ballet happy hour gives you an inside look at the company's upcoming “Carmen.” •Rustico, the paterfamilias of the area's craft beer bar scene ...


Beer Sales Continue to Fall But Craft Brews Keep Growing
Technorati
Beer sales in the US continued their slow decline in 2010 with total consumption down -1.0% according to the latest beer industry statistics from The Brewers Association. However, the real story is that the craft brew segment and the microbrews are ...

Technorati
Plainfield businessmen want village to host craft beer fest
Chicago Sun-Times
27 on village-owned property west of the DuPage River and south of Lockport Street, will feature beer from at least 50 craft breweries, said Caton. He noted that there is a “new craft beer movement” brewing across the country, where people gather at ...

Low alcohol content: The next great thing in beer? (Ad Age)
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
The Seattle brewery Redhook is fast becoming the poster child for an against-the grain trend in craft beer making: lower alcohol content. You know, the kind of beer you can drink “four or five of” without ending up “overstuffed. ...

Here Comes Wild Heaven
Patch.com
Wild Heaven began distributing draft beer in September. Starting today, beer fans across metro-Atlanta will be able to find Wild Heaven' offerings available in packs of four 12-oz. bottles at area stores, including Ale Yeah!, Hop City Craft Beer & Wine ...

Common goes to the White House, Craft Beer Week map, best doughnuts in Chicago
Metromix Chicago
By Jessica Galliart Sarah Palin voices her anger over "vile" Chicago rapper Common's trip to the White House as part of a poetry program. The rest of the world laughs. [AV CLUB CHICAGO] Excited about Google Music? There are some similar, local options ...

Delaware Diner's Digest: Sam Calagione, a sleeper, is topped by a Van Winkle
The News Journal
With the celebration of American Craft Beer Week less than a week away, events are being hosted in all 50 states Monday through May 22. Kevin Finn, an owner of the Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant chain based in Wilmington, believes that Calagione's ...
Irish eyes - and lips - are smiling on craft beer
MassLive.com
By George Lenker The idea that craft brewing may be a recession-proof business seems to be global. While US statistics show that craft beer has grown—in both production and sales—even in these tough economic times, I have just seen some evidence that ...

MassLive.com
The Radar: American Craft Beer Week, World's Biggest Model Airport, Rushdie's ...
Intelligent Travel from National Geographic Traveler Magazine (blog)
American Craft Beer Week kicks off next Monday and for the first time, official events—from tastings to tappings—will be hosted in all 50 states. American Craft Beer Week, now in its sixth year, honors the more than 1700 small and independent craft ...

Intelligent Travel from National Geographic Traveler Magazine (blog)
Food Calendar
North Shore News
Craft Beer Week: In celebration of this event, Taylor's Crossing will serve a choice of grilled achiote prawn salad with fresh fruit salsa, rustic duck confit pizza, puttanesca alla birra, slow roasted veal cheek goulash or a meat and cheese plate, ...

The Week in Beer: Celebrating American Craft Beer Week
AnnArbor.com
For the first time in its six year history, American Craft Beer Week will see official events hosted in all 50 states, making it the largest-ever celebration of US craft brewers, according to the Brewers Association. American Craft Beer Week is May ...

BRICK BREWING, ONTARIO'S ORIGINAL CRAFT BREWERY, IS HONOURED WITH FOUR MORE ...
CanadianBusiness.com
The Company is a regional brewer of award winning premium quality and value beers. The Company, founded in 1984, was the first craft brewery to start up in Ontario, and is credited with pioneering the present day craft brewing renaissance in Canada. ...

The Great Escape: Craft Beer and Music in Cooperstown Friday
Patch.com
By Christine Loughran | Email the author | 5:53am If you appreciate craft microbreweries, sip an Ommegang. If you appreciate classic rock, jam to tunes by Levon Helm. This Friday, have a little of both as Cooperstown's Ommegang Brewery presents the ...

The Good Life: Quality Dining, Craft Beer In Massapequa Park
Long Island Press
By Chris Cooke on May 12th, 2011 In celebration of Long Island Craft Beer Week, against my natural inclinations to keep such establishments—those rare, hidden gems of a restaurant, the kind of place you selfishly hope no one will discover lest it lose ...
The Great Canned vs Bottled Beer Debate 2.0: Craft Brewing Weighs In
Triple Pundit
Known for constant innovation in a quest for creating tasty brews, many craft breweries are switching to cans and debunking the myth that only premium beer comes in a bottle. And as to the claim of the metallic taste? Well, this is no longer valid as ...

Triple Pundit
Low Alcohol Content Beer on the Rise
NACS Online
Craft is beer's fastest-growing segment, with sales up 12 percent in 2010, compared with an overall industry decline of roughly one percent last year, according to the Brewers Association. While some crafts have pushed the alcohol content envelope in ...


Beer Man: Boston Beer Co. offers up a tasty sampler pack
Appleton Post Crescent
Sampling a 12-pack called for help from fellow craft beer aficionados, so Mike Champion, Mark Maglior and I started out with the German- and English-hopped samples, reasoning that their more delicate hops would be overwhelmed by the pine and grapefruit ...

Homemade Brew
Wall Street Journal
By BRETT TAYLOR Little Town NYC, a new craft beer bar near Union Square, has a painting depicting a "Greetings from New York" postcard, with logos of breweries from around the state overlaid on a map. It's the perfect metaphor for a place offering only ...

Seattle Beer News | Craft Beer Selections at Safeco
The Seattle Times
Luckily, they have much more variety in the beer department, although things are a bit different at Safeco Field for 2011. After my third Mariners game this year, I think I finally have the beer situation figured out; just in time for the roof to be ...
American Craft Beer Week showcases improved local beer offerings
NOLA.com
By Todd A. Price American Craft Beer Week started in 2006 to spread the word about small American breweries. New Orleans joined the national event in 2009 when a handful of bars hosted tastings. This year, from Sunday through May 21, more than 45 area ...

NOLA.com
Nightlife notebook: MN Craft Beer Week goes big
Minneapolis Star Tribune
On the agenda this week: A week of craft beer, plus comedian Paul F. Tompkins. Mike Hoops stirs the pot in the Town Hall Brewery facility. When beer crusader Jon Landers created Minnesota Craft Beer Week in 2010, he launched it with three bars (Town ...

The 'mother of all beer weeks`
Daily Camera
It will be released locally on Saturday at Boulder Beer and nationally later this summer. (Brian Spady) American Craft Beer Week, the "mother of all beer weeks," is Monday through Sunday, May 22. Sponsored by the Boulder-based Brewers Association, ...

American Craft: At the Crossroads of Food and Beer
Patch.com
The craft beer movement of recent years, which has reminded all of us that the right beer can enhance good food in the same fashion previously limited to fine wine, has instigated a wave of gastropubs like American Craft on Beacon Street. 

The Craft Beer Chronicles: Beer Belly readies for opening next Friday
Brand X
Back in December, the Craft Beer Chronicles profiled Jimmy Han, an LA-native who planned to open a locally-focused craft beer bar in Koreatown. He was the picture of self-assurance then. But five months later, when we revisited Han at 532 S. Western ...

Moon River to kick off American Craft Beer Week on Monday
Savannah Morning News
Titled the “Georgia Craft Beer Rally,” the Savannah gathering will give Moon River loyalists an opportunity to join craft-beer aficionados in celebrations across America. There will be, sometime during the week, celebrations in all 50 states, ...

Vancouver Craft Beer Week: Driftwood Brewing and CinCin
Vancouver Sun (blog)
By Randy Shore 12 May 2011 COMMENTS(0) The Green Man I can't say for sure that CinCin's Brewmaster's dinner was the swankiest of Vancouver Craft Beer Week's festivities, but it was my fanciest meal of the week. First course was a three-bite plate ...

Narragansett Beer Debuts First-Ever Summer Ale
Patch.com
The Famous Narragansett Beer introduces, for the first time in its 120-year history, the seasonal release of a summer craft brew, Narragansett Summer Ale. Distributed throughout New England, Southern New York and Philadelphia at leading package stores, ...

2 Women Behind New Brewery In Nashville
NewsChannel5.com
It's a really social group people really like craft beer but there isn't that much local craft beer right now," co-owner Bailey Spaulding said. Robyn Virball and Bailey Spaulding are the two women behind the new brewery. They pride themselves on using ...
In Vršovice, an array of unusual beers
Czech Position
The latest arrival just might be the high point of the trend: Zubatý Pes (the “toothy dog”), a bar with 15 taps of craft beer, which opened last weekend in Vršovice. “We're trying to give small brewers a place where they can showcase their beers in

Celebrate American Craft Beer Week, which begins Monday
Florida Times-Union
By Roger Bull American Craft Beer Week runs Monday through Saturday, May 21, and is intended to honor the resurgence and ever-growing world of craft beers. For those who don't know, those are the beers made by smaller breweries that tend to have a bit ...


Craft beers steal share from giants
Victoria Times Colonist
These are tough hurdles to navigate for anyone selling beer. So there's plenty of reason to question just why Victoria craft beer brewers and brewpubs are smiling. At this time of year beerdrinking season should have kicked off, patios should be filled ...

Why Texas' Craft Beer Bills Are Doomed, And Why They Would've Been Baby Steps ...
Dallas Observer (blog)
By Jesse Hughey, Fri., May 13 2011 @ 3:13PM ​If you're a passionate beer drinker or state-legislation fetishist, you've probably read by now that two of the House bills favoring Texas craft brewers are dead, and things ain't looking too hot for the ...

Long Island Craft Beer Week Debuts Friday
Long Island Press
By Timothy Bolger on May 13th, 2011 Here's a not-so-freaky way to commemorate Friday the 13th: The inaugural Long Island Craft Beer Week kicks off Friday night at participating bars and breweries across the Island. The 10-day-long series of events ...

Boulder-based Avery Brewing eyes expansion
Daily Camera
The decision was difficult but necessary as demand was exceeding supply, he said, adding that it was necessary to focus the "finite amount of beer" in certain existing markets and grow from there. Other craft brewers -- including the Longmont-based ...

Specialty suds: Jupiter entrepreneur's organic brew gains a following
Palm Beach Post
latest money news » From The Post and AP By Jeff Ostrowski JUPITER — There's no need to tell beer maker Ray Nickolaus how much competition his Belgian-style brew faces. In his day job, the 34-year-old entrepreneur works as sales manager for craft beer ...
Monks' brew
Financial Times
It will also give Sierra Nevada, a new kind of Californian economic powerhouse, yet more leverage in the multibillion dollar craft beer market. And though the partnership is intended to be a one-off, sales may determine the future of Sierra Nevada's ...

Financial Times
Tallgrass Brewing
Birmingham Weekly
I'd like to mention it since all of us who appreciate craft beer enjoy trying new things. One new one that I know just arrived is Tallgrass Brewing out of Kansas. They've only been around since 2007 so they don't have quite the name recognition as ...

Birmingham Weekly
Hops — They're All About Balance
Patch.com
They keep a beer balanced, whether toward bitter or sweet, and are essential in most styles. By Brittany Dern | Email the author | 4:00pm Hops: the beautiful, cone-shaped plant that adds so much flavor and aroma to a craft beer. ...
Chicagoist's Beer of the Week: Argus Holsteiner Lager
Chicagoist
Beckett's, at the intersection of Belmont, Ashland and Lincoln recently relaunched itself with a focus on craft beers and gourmet burgers, which as concepts go puts them on the bleeding edge of mid-2008. Despite that, we stopped in for a bite and a few ...

American Craft Beer Week starts, Chicago's to follow
ChicagoNow (blog)
First, there's American Craft Beer Week, observed May 16 - 22 by the Brewers Association, the national non-profit association on behalf of the majority of today's US breweries. The program started as American Beer Month in July of 2006.

Breckenridge Craft Beer TV Spots Spoof Big Brands
Mediapost.com
by Karlene Lukovitz, Yesterday, 2:30 PM Craft beers' appeal has always resided in their distinctive, individualistic tastes and identities. That's certainly true for Breckenridge Brewery of Colorado -- which, in an unusual move for a craft brewer, ...

Celebrating the first San Antonio Beer Week
San Antonio Express
In little more than a year, San Antonio has changed its reputation from a Lone Star and Pearl town to an up-and-coming craft beer destination. Even our hipster neighbors to the north in Austin are suddenly discovering that some of the best beer in the ...

New owner for Wellington beer festival
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Adventurous beer lovers are about to get a whole lot more opportunity to enjoy the burgeoning range of premium craft beers on offer in New Zealand, thanks to the sale of Beervana, New Zealand's largest craft beer festival, to a private interest. ...

All about the beer in Albany
WXXA
Beer lovers hit the Washington Avenue Armory on Saturday for the inaugural Albany Craft Beer Festival. Organizers promised one hundred awesome beers and about 1200 tickets were sold for the event. In addition to the breweries, the event had some ...

King & Mane out; Tipsy Cow in
Madison.com
The Tex-Mex restaurant King & Mane, seen here, is being transformed into the Tipsy Cow, a tavern with an emphasis on straight-forward bar food and craft beer. KYLE MCDANIEL — State Journal King & Mane, its name a play on its location at 102 King St., ...

Biz Bits: First abbey ale a big hit for Sierra Nevada, New Clairvaux
Enterprise-Record
By LAURA URSENY - Business Editor On the surface, there is a visual discrepancy between the tiny ABBEY of NEW CLAIRVAUX in nearby Vina and major craft beer producer SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO. in Chico, but an idea explored by both has resonated with the ...

GO! Community Events for May 15-21
North County Times
There is also a Craft Beer Block, where the public can sample brews for $25 ($30 at the gate); 10 am to 6 pm; University Avenue between 30th and 32nd streets, San Diego; free; 619-294-2501 or www.northparkfestivalofarts.com. ...