Blackfoot Brewing image courtesy blogspot,com Reported by Ken Carman for Professorgoodales.net All who love good craft beer know what a growler is. Sometimes they are simply 64oz apple cider jugs. Not recommended if you wish to wait anymore than a few days to sip, unless you want your beer to be flatter than Twiggy. It’s [...]

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Written by Bryan Harrell or Celebrator Beer News Norway was once a country without any craft beer. Perhaps this is the main reason Kjetil Jikiun found craft beers so captivating during layovers in the U.S. while flying as a pilot for a major European airline. It certainly influenced his homebrewing hobby, to the point where [...]

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Saratoga/Glens Falls/Albany area Hi All, First up, of course, is our monthly meeting this Thursday, October 7th at 7pm at the tap room at OSB. We will be judging catagories 20 and 21, but feel free to bring anything you wish to share. On October 16th, from 1-5, is the Octoberfest at Adirondack Pub and [...]

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Ken Carman is a BJCP judge; homebrewer since 1979, club member at Escambia Bay and Music City Homebrewers, who has been interviewing professional brewers all over the east coast for over 10 years. Written by Ken Carman Topic: My Summer Brew Ventures Since the late 90s I have been interviewing brewers, reviewing brew-based businesses and [...]

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Tim Dohms, right, of Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom poses with the crew behind his personal “Best of Show” at the 2010 Emerald Coast Beer Festival, L.A. Lagers from Mobile. (Phil Bailey/GoPensacola.com) Written by Tim Dohms for PNJ.com Time to show my respect and admiration for the only people around more enthusiastic about beer than [...]

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Profiled by Ken Carman What a great name! What an erratic beer! Brewed by Ellicottville Brewing at Ellicottville Brewing in… hope your pacemaker is ready for a shock… Ellicottville, NY and, marginally, at Fredonia. The latter; formerly Barker Brewing, is mostly just a store front for the Ellicottville facility. I have been to all three [...]

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Written by Simon Crisp for asylum.com Ever thought that drinking beer, in and of itself, is pretty pointless? Well, Tuned Pale Ale has come out with a beer that gives you a chance to do something constructive while boozing: whistle a tune. It’s carefully calibrated so you know just what note you’re going to hear [...]

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Picture of War Horse silo before the name of the brewery changed. Profiles by Ken Carman Expect a more current picture and further information about this hard to find brewery in an upcoming Brew Biz column. Riesling Ale War Horse India Pale Ale War Horse Black Lager I had these beers at the brewery and [...]

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One American beer that no serious bar in the capital appears able to do without is Brooklyn Lager. Written by Will Hawkes for blogs.independent.co.uk British beer is enjoying a remarkable renaissance. There are now 767 breweries in the UK, more than at any time since the Second World War. According to Camra, 78 new breweries [...]

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Written by Bob McClay for KTAR.com PHOENIX — A study by AEI-Brookings Joint Center shows 1 in 10 drivers on the freeway are talking on their cell phones and actually are more impaired than if they had been on a drinking binge. The study used a driving simulator to test the effects of cell phone [...]

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