Specialty Beer News 9.10.12

Big distributors taking on more specialty beers Springfield IL The ...
The major distributors are taking note of craft beers. ... region's oldest and largest distributors — is the latest example of a specialty beer market that ...

Big distributors taking on more specialty beers Springfield IL The ...

The major distributors are taking note of craft beers. A just-completed agreement by E&F Distributing Inc. of Springfield — one of the region's oldest and ..

 Beer enthusiasts try out Indiana craft beer
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Hundreds of people came out to Headwaters Park to try out somecraft beers. Saturday was the 14th annual Oktobeer Fest beer tasting. It's a celebration of beer, music and food. It's hosted by Mad Anthony Brewing Company.

Beer Festival Recap: Brass City Brew Fest 2012
The beer isn't over-hopped, which is a recurring theme for new IPAs, since there has been a new trend of "the hoppier, the better." While that can be true when it comes to imperial-style pale ales, it's not always a good thing for a brewery to enter ...

Sublime, craft beer brewers join for festival Newsday (blog) The Beer Fields Craft Beer and Music Festival drew thousands to the Pennysaver Amphitheater at Bald Hill in Farmingville, formerly known as the Brookhaven Amphitheater. The main attractions for the festivities, were 40 craft beers from around the world ...

GDW7THU Craft Beer Festival
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Growing demand cheers makers of craft beers, spirits
LYNCHBURG, TENN. - A president must waste long hours on trivial issues such as foreign policy, the economy and his own re-election. But Barack Obama has found time for something more important: home-brewing beer. And on Sept. 1, he revealed his ..

BWW Interviews: James Barry of Arden's NEXT TO NORMAL on Music, Mental ...
We talked to the performer, who will be appearing as husband Dan, at the Arden about his unexpected musical theatre career, his work at Berkshire Theatre Festival, thoughts on the relevance of musicals about mental illness, and the joys of craft beer.

Craft beer pioneer Pastorius passes away
SEWICKLEY -- It's not a stretch to say that Pittsburgh's burgeoning craft beer industry can look to Tom Pastorius as the man who led the way. Pastorius, the Sewickley resident who founded the Pennsylvania Brewing Co. on Pittsburgh's North Side in 1986, ...


Craft beer to grow five times in 10 years: Coopers
Published on Mon, 10/09/2012, 10:30:09. |. By James Wells in Hobart A leading Coopers executive has predicted that the craft beer category in Australia could grow by five times its current value over the next 10 years following the trend set in North ...

Great Lakes Brewing Co. craft beers coming to Duluth Craft beers made by Cleveland's Great Lakes Brewing Co. will start appearing on Duluth store shelves Oct. 1. By: News Tribune staff, Duluth News Tribune. Great Lakes Brewing Co. beer. image. Great Lakes Brewing Co. beer. Talk about it. Craft beers made ...

San Diego Brewers Guild to host annual San Diego Beer Week In celebration of San Diego's rich local craft beer culture, the San Diego Brewers Guild is preparing for the largest San Diego Beer Week yet planned for Nov. 2-11, it was recently announced. In celebration of San Diego's rich local craft beer culture ...

10 Best Beer Investments For Your Cellar
 NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- No matter how much craft beer takes off or how many 22-ounce and 750-milliliter bottles of it show up in restaurants of note, beer's still considered wine's slack-jawed yokel ...



 

Specialty Beer News 9.7.12

Kennebec River Brewery releases Honey Badger Rye
Specialty beers from Kennebec are handcrafted in a traditional pub method where the beer's carbonation and flavors develop naturally, in stainless steel kegs. Northern Outdoors vice president and Kennebec River Brewery founder Jim Yearwood said that ...

Cocktail Hour: Craft-brewing hops to the fore in Minnesotaost-Bulletin Between the excellent and ever-evolving craft beer scene in the Twin Cities, and new beer-friendly legislation such as the "Surly Bill," Minnesota has become a friendlier and more welcome home for small businesses looking to get a foot in the market.

Craft beer added to annual fundraiser's menu ... poured alongside wine at Bear Creek Services' main fundraiser of the year, Beers of the World, a new offshoot of the nonprofit's longtime annual Wines of the World event. More than 125 craft beerswill be served in the event, which starts at 6:30 p ...

Mount Pleasant breweries offer quality, local craft beer Many college students don't have a preference when it comes to the beer they are drinking, as long as it's inexpensive, cold and within reaching distance. But the beer choices available are changing as Michigan has opened microbreweries that produce ... Graystone showcases state's craft beer Craft brew lovers fear not. Your shouts for beer brewed by someone not named Bud or Miller is being heard. The fast-growing market for craft beer, especially Wisconsin craft beer, has found a home at Graystone Ale House in the form of a Wisconsin-only ... Exploring the Craft Beer Cocktail Movement with an Open Glass Exploring the Craft Beer Cocktail Movement with an Open Glass There are a lot of boozy movements out there these days. You've got your craft cocktail movement, your craft beermovement and your craft beer cocktail movement. Wait, what was that last one?

Specialty Beer News 9.6.12

Daytona beverage distributor adds more craft beers
Daytona Beverages LLC, a Daytona Beach-based independent beer distributor, has just landed the rights to become the exclusive distributor of two more lines of craft beers: Green Flash and Goose Island. Green Flash Brewing Company is based in San ...

World Beer Festival Saturday, October 20th in Danville, IL TMR Zoo The World Beer Festival is a celebration of beer culture that offers festivalgoers the ability to sample craft and specialty beers from all over the world and is inclusive of breweries from all distribution relationships. Team members from the Federal ...

 Beer veteran to open specialty brewery in Durham
Bangor Daily News
DURHAM — A veteran brewer of several popular Maine beers — including the first three Baxterbeers — plans to open a small niche brewery on Route 125 in Durham. On Wednesday, the Durham Planning Board awarded a conditional permit to brewer ...

President of Beers: #37 President of Beers: #37. Golden Fraü Honey Wheat: Thunderhead Brewing, Kearney, Nebraska. Food & Drink We're drinking the flagship craft beer from every state in the Union, counting down from 50-1, to fi... More. Sep 6, 2012 01:08 pm by Brian Yaeger...

Maryville Gets Its Own Brewery As the first brewers' cooperative in Tennessee, Bluetick Brewery, a member-owned craft brewingcompany in Maryville, Tenn., is recruiting fellow beer snobs for an exclusive membership program. The brewery will be located off of East Broadway in ...

Specialty Beer News 8-29-12

Beer fans have plenty of options for fall

He's adding a new cooler to accommodate the demand for specialty beers. “Abita beers are a good performer,” he said of the craft line from Louisiana. “It's something that is a little different and very drinkable. Deschutes beers (from Bend, Ore.) are ...

The Man Who Made Canned Craft Beer Cool In November 2002, Dale Katechis, the founder of Colorado-based Oskar Blues Brewery, took a bold step and became the first craft brewery in the country to put craft beer exclusively in a can. Now Katechis has company. More than 200 craft brewers are ... Beer Can Motorcycle Impression Sounds Remarkably Realistic (VIDEO) Huffington Post These pioneers of craft beer in a can have several of the best available, including their 10.50% "Ten Fidy" imperial stout. Although this beer looks like motor oil with a head like espresso <em>créma</em>, it is truly a treat of a beer, like rich ...
Craft beers enjoy boom despite Italy's crisis Craft beers enjoy boom despite Italy's crisis. BORGOROSE, Italy--With oyster, tobacco and watermelon flavored creations, Italy's craft beers are flourishing despite a punishing recession that is putting thousands of other businesses out of work.

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What to Drink (and Eat) at the LA Craft Beer Crawl While San Francisco drinkers are partying at Outside Lands this weekend, those down south are gearing up for a whole new boozy adventure: the annual LA Craft BeerCrawl. Now in its third year, the craft beer crawl through seven of Los Angeles' most... Six Pack: Beer Buzz of the Week Beer Production Booming At Home and Abroad: The mid-year numbers are in for America's small and independent craft brewers and craft beer continues its unprecedented growth. According to the Brewers Association, dollar sales were up 14 percent in the ...

Savannah Craft Brew Week

Who needs beer? Ciders a growing attraction at Savannah Craft Brew Fest

They're part of a growing line, including Original Sin, that will be highlighted during this year's Savannah Craft Brew Week, which runs Aug. 26 through Sept. 2. “What's really interesting is we just got back from England, and ciders are very hot ...

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Alabama Brewers Guild Supports Gourmet Bottle Bill
Alabamians For Specialty Beer. Free The ... Alabama is currently the only state that prohibits the sale of beer packaged in containers larger than 16 oz. Free the ...

 Wine Bar & Specialty Beer - Bars - Key West Innkeepers Association
Wine Bar & Specialty Beer - Bars Wine Bar specialty beer Our wine and specialty beer bars feature the best vintages, most unique microbrews, and ...

 Jake's Burgers: Specialty burgers in a hip, contemporary atmosphere
Wauwatosa Now
Karen Replogle shows off a Wisconsin burger topped with Neuske's bacon, beer cheese and Jake's famous haystack onion strings. Photo By CT Kruger On the go and looking for more great eats? Grab your smart phone and visit MyCommunityNOW's Foursquare list ...

 Twins announce addition of new concessions
MLB.com
The Twins and Sportservice expanded concessions and retail at Target Field this year by adding local craft beers and specialty foods from across Twins Territory. "The Twins are thrilled with the continued evolution of the Target Field menu and ...

Craft beer breweries get boost from state fee cuts ... called The Dayton Beer Company at 906 E. Dorothy Lane. By Mark Fisher, Staff Writer Updated 9:14 AM Monday, January 16, 2012 A new state law that cuts start-up costs for micro-breweries and makes it easier for a growing number of craft distilleries ...

Republican Presidential Debates Go Down Better With Craft Beers What red-blooded American doesn't like a good craft beer? Germansteins.com Communities craft beer expert Bryan Kolesar of the After-Hours at the Brew Lounge column weighs in to help get us through the rest of the debates in a tasty way. ...

Dogfish brewer takes on the beer snobs By George Lenker AP photo It's one thing for a columnist like myself to criticize a trend in the craft beer world. It's far more powerful when a leader in the industry makes the same point. But that's what happened when Dogfish Head Brewing's founder ...

New breweries, new beer for 2012 2011 saw the explosion of craft beer in BC spread ever further. A growing number of pubs began installing dedicated draft lines for craft beer; some dedicated themselves solely to craft. More restaurants and new establishments are now stocking local ...

Sunoco Expands Growler Program Successful testing of the Craft Beer Exchange is bringing the program to Sunoco APlus stores throughout New York. by RSS Feed by Email BUFFALO – Sunoco announced last week the statewide expansion of its Craft Beer Exchange program in New York. ...

Amidst business boost, local breweries fight regulation Beer connoisseurs are enjoying the boost in locally made microbrews, but the business boom has come with unexpected speed bumps. "Austin is quickly becoming one of the hubs nationally for craft beer," Jeff Stuffings with Jester King Brewery said....

New beer brewer (AP) -- There's a clue to Brian Podwinski's old job in the name of his brew. He's a retired cop in Lincoln, Nebraska. He first craft beer is called 1327 Pod's ESB. Pod is his nickname and 1327 is his old badge number. A shoulder injury forced his ...

Future set to dish up the past Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show beer consumption as a percentage of total alcohol sales is down to a 61-year low of 44 per cent, yet craft beer from microbreweries is, in its own way, booming. More artisanal, small-brew, ...

Growing the Perfect Pint “Seeing people actually drink your beer.” Fierro, now a craft beer storeowner, said you could taste the difference when a friend has used ingredients from their own yard to craft a beer. Salinas is proud of his homebrews. One of his current home brews ...

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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 ...