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This is the Cambridge Brewing in Mass., not Granby, CT-PGA

Written by Steve Greenlee for Bostonglobe.com

Cambridge Brewing Co. has been pouring great beer in Kendall Square since 1989, but only recently did the brewpub begin bottling its beverages.

It started last fall, when CBC put its hot-selling fall ale, the Great Pumpkin, in 22-ounce bottles. Now the brewpub is selling two year-round beers – a Belgian tripel called Tripel Threat and a Belgian IPA called the Audacity of Hops – as well as a rotation of single-batch beers, the first of which is a Scotch ale.

Why start bottling now?

If you happen to be near Vail this weekend…

Vail Cascade and Breck Brewery host free craft beer seminar

Want to get rid of your sediment?

Written by Tom Rotunno for cnbc.com

One of the founding fathers of the U.S. craft beer movement is joining forces with the world’s oldest annual marathon. On Thursday, the Boston Beer Company will announce a first-ever partnership between the maker of Sam Adams and the Boston Athletic Association, the organizer of the Boston Marathon.

Boston Beer will be creating a special commemorative beer, the Samuel Adams Boston 26.2 Brew, to mark this year’s marathon.

Details about the beer will be released at Thursday’s event with Boston Beer Founder and CEO Jim Koch, Boston Marathon legend Bill Rodgers and BAA President Joann Flaminio in attendance. However, company officials said the beer will have “a lighter body and slightly lower alcohol level than many of the beers in the Samuel Adams roster.”

The beer is expected to be made available exclusively at Boston Marathon events and at “a few select pubs and restaurants along the marathon route and in Boston.”

By pairing craft beer and marathoning, the partnership brings together two of the hottest trends in the United States. According to the industry trade group the Brewers Association, craft beer saw a dollar sales increase of 15 percent the first half of 2011, after posting an increase of 12 percent in 2010.

Marathon running has seen a similar boom. According to Running USA, a Colorado organization that tracks road race participation, 507,000 runners finished a marathon in 2010, up from 303,000 ten years earlier. (Numbers for 2011 are not yet available.)

Continue reading “Sam Adams to Brew a Beer for the Granddaddy of All Marathons”

Written by Mary Perez for The Sun Herald and USA Today Travel

BILOXI, Miss. – So much lost during Hurricane Katrina can never be replaced, but in the case of Biloxi Blonde beer, it can be recreated.

The beer, born at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino, was lost when the casino’s brewery was destroyed in 2005. Yet it was not forgotten by customers.

“It’s so much more than a beer. It’s really a comeback moment,” said Beau Rivage spokeswoman Mary Cracchiolo-Spain.

The Beau Rivage went to the Legislature to get permission for microbreweries and was the first to operate in Mississippi. Copper brew kettles from Germany were installed at the Coast Brewing Co. at the Beau and customers watched the brewers making Biloxi Blonde and six other beers.

“Biloxi Blonde was one of our top-selling beers,” said Cracchiolo-Spain.

Brewmaster Brian Bush won the silver medal in the German-Style Kolsch category at the 2004 Great American Beer Festival in Denver, beating Anheuser-Busch’s Michelob Amber Bock and other national contenders.

When customers kept asking for Biloxi Blonde, the Beau Rivage collaborated with Lazy Magnolia Brewing Company in Hancock County to bring it back.

“This is a new interpretation of that beer,” said Cracchiolo-Spain.

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An update on Wormtown, Ken Carman’s column on Wormtown here @ PGA can be found HERE.

Written by Aaron Nicodemus for telegram.com

Until March 2009, there hadn’t been a brewery in Worcester for 60 years.

With its two-year anniversary approaching next month, Wormtown Brewing Co. is gearing up to expand. The brewery is squeezed into 1,200 square feet — in what was once an ice cream parlor — next to Peppercorn’s restaurant on Park Avenue.

The way owner Thomas M. Oliveri tells it, he created the ice cream parlor thinking about the lines snaking around the corner at ice cream shops on Cape Cod.

And line up for ice cream they did — in June, July and August. Not so much in the other months.

So he went in another direction, using the space to brew beer. He expected to supply Peppercorns and his other restaurant, Prezo Grille & Bar in Milford, with kegs of beer — maybe a couple of other restaurants — and see how it went.
Continue reading “Worcester’s Tiny Brewery is Ready for the Big Time”

Wasn’t there ANY OTHER WAY Alberta and the brewer could have solved this? Small bottles? We had this problem in the 70s with malt liquors that were heavily advertised in African American communities- The Professor

A pilot alcohol awareness campaign developed by the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Police Service Neighbourhood Empowerment Team has prompted Molson Coors Canada to stop distributing the Black Label Big 10 beer in Edmonton, Alberta.

Written by Tanara McLean for The Toronto Sun

EDMONTON - Molson Coors Canada has yanked one of its most popular products off Alberta shelves in an effort to cap crime.

The liquor giant will no longer supply Alberta alcohol stores with its jumbo sized 1.18-litre beer, saying the move could help cut violence spurred by alcohol addiction.

“As our (founder) John Molson said back in 1825, we’re all members of a larger community which depends on everyone playing a part,” said Molson Coors Canada spokesman Andrew Stordeur.

The beer has a proof of 10.1% — double that of regular beer.
Continue reading “Jumbo-sized potent beer pulled from Alberta shelves”

 

The Reverend Andrew O’Connor of Holy Family Church in Castle Hill has a new endeavor: growing hops in the churchyard to make a Bronx beer. He is in the churchyard displaying growler bottles, which seal in carbonation.

Written by Corinne Lestch for The New York Daily News

A Bronx priest known for creating his own clothing line has a new trick up his sleeve: Artisanal beer crafter.

The recently opened Bronx Brewery has found an unlikely partner in Rev. Andrew O’Connor of Holy Family Church in Castle Hill, who is reserving space in the church garden to grow hops, a seed that flavors beer.

“One hops yard takes three years to grow, so if we get wet hops that go directly into the brew, it will make a nice fresh beer, which is prized,” said O’Connor, head of the parish for nearly five years. “So that’s the advantage of growing locally. People like things that are made in the Bronx.”
Continue reading “A Bronx Priest Walks Into a Local Brewery…and Decides to Grow Hops for Them in His Parish Garden”

Written by Abram Goldman-Armstrong for Ale Street News. Ommegang picture courtesy media.cleveland.com

Located on 147 acres in rural New York, Brewery Ommegang, makes fine Belgian-inspired ales with water from three wells on their land. It’s an idyllic, pastoral, setting in which to brew beers reminiscent of the Belgian abbey tradition. Soon, however, the brewery’s water supply may be under the threat of contamination.
Continue reading “Green Report: Don’t Frack with Our Beer”

Has been described by some as a vegetal green pea like taste. Could be DMS? Something about those bottles and sanitation that failed? We had a story on this beer a few days ago here at PGA. Since there’s such a demand this has got to hurt them financially, but the approach seems wise.

Written by Scott Canon for The Kansas City Star

Maybe the reason you didn’t care for the much-hyped Boulevard Chocolate Ale had nothing to do with your palate. And everything to do with the beer.

Kansas City’s Boulevard Brewing Co. decided to offer refunds on a limited number of batches — up to a third of the bottles of chocolate ale sold — that the brewery said didn’t meet its standards.

“Some of the batches of Chocolate Ale have an unwanted flavor that we really did not anticipate to have in the beer,” Boulevard’s brewmaster Steven Pauwels said in a YouTube clip posted Wednesday.
Continue reading “Chocolate Fail: Some Boulevard Brew Has ‘Unwanted Flavor’”