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Continue reading “Brewpubs, Breweries and Tasting Rooms: Hair of the Dog, Portland, Oregon”

This may, or may not, work well once it posts. Seemed to have a stalling problem that varied as to how far it would go. Still: interesting.

Continue reading “Brewpubs, Breweries and Tasting Rooms: Cascade Brewing Barrel House in Portland, OR”

Written by Dennis Pillon for al.com

PENSACOLA, Florida –For the 17th year in a row, the Emerald Coast Beer Festival brought together Gulf Coast beer enthusiasts with brewers, large and small, from around the country Friday.

Breweries like Abita, Avondale, Sweet Water, Terrapin, Bell’s, Highland, and several more set up tables in and around Seville Quarter, serving up samples while musical acts The Posi-Tones and The Hotheads performed for the crowd.

The breweries traveled from far away places like Hawaii, Michigan, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Tennessee and North Carolina.

Closer to home, the Pensacola Bay Brewery, McGuire’s Irish Pub, Grayton Beer Company, Middle Bay Brewing Company, Perdido Vineyards and more brought their products to the festival.
Continue reading “Emerald Coast Beer Festival draws big crowd to Seville Quarter (photos)”

Written by Camille Bautista, The Post-Standard

A sweet, bready aroma fills the air, wafting through Kevin Czebiniak’s garage doors. With gloved hands, he pours freshly milled grain into a container, mixing it with 120-degree water to start a batch of brown ale.

“When I first made it, I took a sip and instantly knew I had it,” he said of his molasses- and honey-flavored brew.

Czebiniak, 23, is one of several young Central New Yorkers catching up to a fast-growing hobby: He is a home brewer.

Homebrewing may have flourished during Prohibition, but as a hobby, it really took off in the 1970s and has grown since then, along with the rising popularity of craft-brewed beers (not the domestic lagers produced by the beer-making giants).
Continue reading “Younger Members Boost the Ranks of Syracuse’s Salt City Brew Club”

Written by Ken Carman for Professorgoodales.net

Ken Carman is a BJCP judge; homebrewer since 1979, club member at Escambia Bay Salt City, Salt City and Music City Homebrewers, who has been interviewing professional brewers all over the east coast for over 10 years.

The Topic: Is “Small” Better?

Can’t say I didn’t enjoy, though it’s annoying as all hell when we pay well over $100 for some hotsy totsy Dallas hotel and they demand more money just to go web surfing. Hell, I’ve stayed in $26 motels in northern Georgia and gotten “free” internet. If they can include it in the price at $26, you know damn well it can’t be that hard at well over $100.

Beer? Yes, this is about beer. We were at Bluebonnet, a competition in Dallas, Texas. This was a few years ago. This is a huge competition: well over 2,000 entries and they want three bottles per entry. That’s well over 6,000 bottles to check in, register, take off the labels, hopefully not break while you relabel them and sort them into categories and then off to each respective table.

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Profiled by Ken Carman for professorgoodales.net

I’m going to have to do this from memory since I tasted it right in the middle of a big beer tasting I was doing: 30 beers.

On first sip I tilted my head and went, “Wow!” You know I’m impressed when I do that. The cherry was up front, tad sour and an odd oaky sense, thought the bottle doesn’t indicated it’s been oaked. The brown ale/dark ale base is firm, yet background. Mouthfeel: cherry, some carbonation… light on the palate… some dark malt but very very subtle.

Appearance nice deep ruby highlighted brown with a creamy, small head. Quite the complex nose: it’s been almost a week and the tart cherry nose lingers in the glass, even some of the brown malt sense.

Very easy to drink and you’d never know it’s 8%.

I recommend for those who can appreciate a blended Kriek-ish brown ale with light carbonation. Those looking for more spritzy, cold, typical American beer of the unenlightened masses should probably just buy another six of Bud.

I pity you for what you’re missing.

Written by Johnathan Shikes for westword.com

Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project, the one-man brewery that primarily makes wild and sour ales, has officially moved its barrel-aging and fermenting to north Denver and plans to announce a plan for where it will brew beers sometime in August.

Brewery owner Chad Yakobson has been planning the move for quite a while, but has been taking his time to work out the details. Crooked Stave had been doing all of its brewing and fermenting at Funkwerks Brewing in Fort Collins since its inception in 2011.
Continue reading “Crooked Stave is Brewing in Denver and Readying a Separate Barrel Cellar”