Category: Beers
Jester King is dead, all hail Jester King!
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It almost felt inevitable: their head brewer is moving on to start his own operation. It is with great sadness that we must announce that our Head Brewer, Jordan Keeper, is leaving Jester King to pursue his dream of ...
Surly to hit the skies!
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Surly is going to be offering their beers on some flights out of Minnesota. A million times yes. Minneapolis-based Sun Country Airlines may have just become America’s most attractive air carrier for beer geeks, as...
Walking Dead themed beer contains actual brains
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Tonight's the premier of the next-to-last episode this season, so this announcement is pretty well-timed. I suppose with it's enormous cultural impact that it was only a matter of time before someone made a Walking...
Top 50 Craft Breweries of 2013 (By Sales Volume)
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The whole list is over at Brewers Association. The only big surprise is Ballast Point, whose expansion from 2012 to 2013 seems almost impossible. Very impressive gains from Sweetwater, Left Hand, and Southern Tier...
A hoppingly pointless poll
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The Full Pint has a poll for "The Best" imperial IPA. All of the usual suspects are represented. My opinion? The best imperial IPA is the freshest one you can get. I had my first Pliny the Elder recently at a ...
Anheuser-Busch slashing prices of Shock Top, Goose Island
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It's a clever marketing strategy. It seems AB distributors in parts of Oregon and Washington (the reach of the campaign is uncertain) have issued updated price lists containing massive price drops on the Shock Top an...
Bud Light is even more popular than you might think.
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Holy crap: that's a lot of Bud Light. [Bold added for emphasis:] If you add up every case of imported beer, craft beer, hard cider, and flavored malt beverages sold in 2013, you get 270,194,987. Bud Light sold 294,7...
NPR has more on craft vs. “crafty”
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This is the probably the best primer I've seen so far about "crafty" beer distorting consumer understanding. Small breweries are transforming into big ones, while big breweries are masquerading as small brands, selli...
Straight Outta Braavos
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The Game of Thrones beers from Brewery Ommegang keep rolling out. Up next is possibly the best. Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, New York has had major success with its series of Game of Thrones-inspired beer, and i...
Ancient whale bone beer because hell yes, that’s why.
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A user on Reddit posted today about attending the release of Lost Rhino Bone Duster. Director of field research of Paleo Quest came up with the crazy (but cool!) idea to swab some of the fossils Jason had found on hi...