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Written by Lew Bryson for jbojangles.blogspot.com

A week away from my thirtieth birthday, I received an early birthday present from my dad – a package that included a card, some beer money, and three books. One of the books? The Simon and Schuster Pocket Guide To Beer, by Michael Jackson. Published in 1991, it’s an interesting read – it’s a guide to the different types of beer – which is invaluable in and of itself – as well as a tour of the beer world as it was 16 years ago. It’s interesting how things have changed.

I was paging through the “United States” section, which was divided into sections. As of this writing, there were a scant 41 brewpubs, microbreweries, and major brewers from Washington, DC to Maine. Wow. How far we have come!

Continue reading “History Lesson: William S. Newman Brewing Company”

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A neat business idea from Pennsylvania for recession hit folks- the Professor

Written by Tim Stuhldreher for centralpennbusiness,com

The midstate’s first “craft beer bottle shop and flatbread pizza café” will open at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Lancaster.

Located at 534 N. Mulberry St., near the Lancaster Arts Hotel, The Fridge will offer the region’s largest selection of craft beers and microbrews, as well as hand-crafted artisan flatbread pizzas, according to its website.
Continue reading “The Fridge Craft Beer Café Opening in Lancaster”

North Country Brewing
141 S. Main Street
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
(412)974-2337
Brewer: Sean McIntrye

Written by Ken Carman for Professorgoodales.net

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.

Apologies for any errors that may have slipped into this edition of Brew Biz, or lack of decent pictures. I have been visiting with the Professor just about edit time and the Wifi dumped where we were posting: the only source of Internet here. He asked me to go ahead and post anyway as soon as I could.

A few years ago Millie and I were visiting Sprague Brewing in Venango, PA. I had enjoyed Brian’s brews earlier in the year and wanted Millie to try them. We were outside, gazing over the farm, chatting with Minnie the brewer’s wife, when Brian came out to chat too. Brian Sprague; brewer, chainsaw sculpture artist and deep space astronaut. (Yes, I’m kidding about the deep space stuff, though one picture I’ve seen of him has him looking out from a brew kettle looking much like he’s in a space capsule.) Brian recommended we stop by North Country Brewing in Slippery Rock. Being teetotalers at heart we went straight home. End of story.

What? You’re still reading? Don’t you have anything better to do? Maybe drink craft beer?

Well, you’re in luck because I just told a fib. We did go to North Country, but for some reason what they had on tap that day did nothing for us. Perhaps we were just “beer-ed out.” I know that happens sometimes in competitions and festivals we help with, or judge at. And it couldn’t have anything to do with spending too long at Sprague, right? Nah, not that.
Continue reading “Brew Biz: Werts and All”

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