Posted by Chris Furnari at brewbound.com BUFFALO, N.Y. – Drivers over the age of 21 in Buffalo can now fill up their growlers after they’re done filling up their gas tanks. Sunoco Inc. rolled out a pilot program at the end of June entitled the “Craft Beer Exchange,” in an attempt to capitalize on the [...]

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Written by Norman Miller for GateHouse News Service and milforddailynews.com Like many stateside beer fans, I discovered New Zealand’s Epic Brewing Company through the “Brew Masters” television show. On an episode featuring Dogfish Head owner Sam Calagione, he and brewers from Epic worked together to brew a beer for the Brewers Guild of New Zealand [...]

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Interview with a British brewer has some interesting results-PGA Written by Ben McFarland for thedrinksbusiness.com Age? Old enough to have an aching back and wish I could start counting backwards, young enough to still look roguishly handsome How did you become a brewer? I got the inspiration to home brew from one of my career [...]

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Written by Greg Kitsock for washingtonpost.com This week is shaping up to be a busy one for beer events. Birch and Barley/ChurchKey will tap beers from two breweries new to the Washington area: Tonight, the Logan Circle establishment will bust out eight ales from Loupe Rouge, a tiny French-Canadian microbrewery, and then on Tuesday, it’ll [...]

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Wormtown Brewery 455 Park Avenue Worcester, MA 01610 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. Brew Biz is a column written by Ken Carman for Professor Goodales I have [...]

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Written by Scott Simon for NPR Cold beer is on tap in Minnesota this weekend. But it was almost the casualty of the two-week shutdown of the state government that may have come to an end. MillerCoors, which holds “brand label registrations” for 39 beers, including Miller, Coors, Blue Moon Pale and Hamm’s — almost [...]

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Written by Tom Becham for Professor Goodales Let me begin this article with a complete non-sequitur. Americans seem to be able to accept even the harshest of criticisms if they come from people with British accents. Whether it be Gordon Ramsey, Jamie Oliver, Simon Cowell or even the Supernanny, it seems to go over better [...]

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Note: The Professor, being a bit anal, did correct a few minor spelling and capitalization errors: hopefully they weren’t culturally based. And this may seem an odd entry: but think only 20 or so years ago how far behind we were compared to the Brits when it comes to beer. A bit of perspective on [...]

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Written by Katherine Scarrow for theglobeandmail.com It’s paradoxical, but the global economic crisis of 2008 may have been the best thing ever to have to happened to lawyer-turned-brewery-owner Dimitri van Kampen. “I had lost all of my clients overnight. Lehman Brothers, Merill Lynch all went away and I’m sitting there, with no much to do, [...]

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