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Waiting for the beer bubble to pop
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Founders CEO Mike Stevens is calling it straight up. “We will see a bit of a bubble burst in the next five years or so,” he said during a live chat with MLive readers at the Founders 15-year anniversary party. “Howev...
Increasing the case for cans
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The publication Advertising Age has a good write-up on the reasons why cans are a good idea for business as well as for beer in general. The most obvious reason to anyone that's ever been outside is that they're no...
The fight to share your homebrew
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Almost everyone lives some place that has seen some important changes to the laws governing beer in the last decade. Container size limits, ABV restrictions, brewery zoning issues, Sunday sales...it seems there's alw...
Craft beer on TV
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We've commented previously about the upcoming show featuring the founders of BrewDog, and many of you may have seen the series Brew Masters featuring Sam Calagione. Well, there's more on the way according to a grea...
More Metal
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Not metal as in metallic, but metal as in holy crap look at those labels--SO METAL. First, there's a new Game of Thrones brew, and it's about as metal as it gets: [caption id="attachment_1478" align="alignnone" ...
BrewDog unleashes 35% ABV spirit which will surely kill us all
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Look upon my works, ye mighty and despair: The new spirit was developed in a “radical brewing and ice distillation process”, which currently has a patent pending. The spirit has a 35% abv and is created using an IPA ...
India Session Ales: Hot New Trend or Big Fat Meh?
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These things have many names as an "emerging" style trend, but the basic format is the same: (relatively) heavy on hops, low on alcohol. To those of us in oppressive summer clients, the arrival of beers like Founde...
Brewpocalypse Now: Unraveling the Magic Hat/West Sixth scandal
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If you follow anything related to beer (or just have facebook friends that drink) you've probably heard about this mess in the last 24 hours. It all started yesterday when West Sixth Brewing Company (a small brewer...
Drink long and prosper: Vulcan Ale becomes first “official” Star Trek beer
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In a move sure to please everyone from Zefram Cochraine to Katherine Pulaski, CBS/Paramount Consumer Products has finally authorized an official Trek beverage. While it may not be called the “official” beer of Star T...
Hopped To Death
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"Come in and have a seat. America, we're here today to tell you that you have a problem. You're addicted to hops and we want to help you get better." At least that's the charge over at Slate. From a consumer’s s...