Category: Breweries
Dogfish Head piles on the low-alcohol year-round release trend
54 Views0 Comments
Yep, Namaste is going year-round. Dogfish will transition Namaste, the company’s 4.8 percent, Belgian-style white beer — previously available only in 750 mL champagne-style bottles on a limited basis — into regularly...
Budweiser’s incoherent and stupid super bowl ad
51 Views0 Comments
You probably saw it and choked on your robust barrel-aged imperial stout or your delicate, finely crafted Schwartzbier. Paste has the best response I've seen. “This is the only beer Beechwood Aged” “Alright guy...
Jim Koch picks a dream 6 pack
51 Views0 Comments
Jim Koch (Sam Adams founder) gives an interesting list of beers he'd like to have in a dream six pack and explains his love of each. He mostly keeps it simple. In the 1990s, Rob Tod was learning to use a jackhamme...
Monacacy Brewing Company Opening in Frederick, MD
50 Views0 Comments
Opening in the coming months, another craft brewery is coming to the already infamous beer town of Frederick, MD. Monacacy Brewing Company, owned by Phil Bowers, will be opening their 15,000 square foot brewery at 178...
NPR has more on craft vs. “crafty”
50 Views0 Comments
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...
Founders Brewing’s Dave Engbers talks swinging for the fences
50 Views0 Comments
Paste has a short interview with Dave about how they really turned it around with Dirty Bastard. Dirty Bastard was really the beer that got us on the right path where we broke out of our shell. It gave us the confide...
Jim Koch’s bonus structure makes no sense
49 Views0 Comments
Jim Koch (of Sam Adams fame) is truly wealthy these days, but his bonus reflects a more humble business approach. BusinessWeek has the full break-down. But the bonus formula devised by the company’s board rewards Ko...
First Beer of the Weekend – 5/1/2015
49 Views0 Comments
Today's Required-Unwinder is "The Calling" DIPA from Boulevard. Got this in the growler at our local filling station. It pours a bit more orange than last week's offering, but still well within the standard IPA sp...
Ben & Jerry are making a beer? What?!
48 Views0 Comments
No I'm not kidding. Yes, that Ben & Jerry. The ice cream and beer giants continue to finalize plans for the beer, but we know it will be a sweet, cocoa-laced brew available this fall. And according to a relea...
College Beer Playoffs
48 Views0 Comments
CraftBeer.com started what I hope will be a grand tradition: a college craft beer playoff. I examined the top ten college football teams according to five beer-related areas: Number of craft breweries 2015 Grea...