Written by Tom Becham for Professorgoodales.net On the next leg of our journey to Northern California, my wife and I stopped in San Francisco for a few days. Besides some of the more obviously touristy stuff, we also did some beer tourism. Our first beer-related stop was at the Magnolia Pub and Brewery. Located in [...]

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Written by Norman Miller for milforddailynews.com and GateHouse News Service Russian imperial stouts draw big crowds. Breweries around the country — Portsmouth Brewery in New Hampshire, Three Floyds in Indiana and the Bruery in California, among them — hold special events when interpretations of the style are sold just that one day a year. These [...]

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 29 (UPI) — Flying Dog Brewery is suing Michigan’s state Liquor Control Commission in federal court over its prohibition of the bottler’s “Raging Bitch” label. In its complaint filed March 25, the beer maker alleges the agency is censoring its free speech, The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press reported. The 20th Anniversary [...]

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Note: wouldn’t the purchaser have been InBev? Isn’t “A/B” mostly “A/B” in name only these days, if at all?- Prof. GA Written by Steve Dolinsky for wbez.org Some fans of craft beers are foaming over the news that industry giant Anheuser-Busch plans to buy 23 year-old Chicago-based, brewing powerhouse Goose Island Beer Co. The $38.8 [...]

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Profiled by Ken Carman I have had Ommegang Abbey many times. I’ve met the brewers and shared a mutual goal: brainstorming a trube problem for another brewer in Pensacola. It is a very complex Belgian Brown Ale fermented in open fermentation tanks right here in the states in Milford, NY just south of Cooperstown, NY. [...]

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Written by Tovin Lapan for McClatchy Newspapers and goerie.com Four years ago handyman Mark Taylor sent proposals to four community colleges in Northern California for a beer home-brewing course he wished to teach. The colleges’ reaction was as flat as a glass of beer left out overnight. While they did not believe Taylor would find [...]

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Written by Norman Miller for GateHouse News Service Big alcohol beers with high alcohol content are fine, but Chris Lohring said he noticed something was missing in the craft beer world: a highly flavorful beer that low in alcohol. Lohring wanted to do something about that, and last year he started Notch Session, a brewery [...]

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If only we could revise history and get rid of bad beer at the same time!

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Written by Tony Kiss for Citizen-Times.com These days, a variety of flavors are going into Asheville-made beers. Asheville Brewing Co., 77 Coxe Ave., takes that to another level with its Thursday night infused brew series. Each week, the downtown brewery blends one of its own beers with some unexpected ingredients. The next infused brew (coming [...]

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