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How to brew a better brick
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Apparently spent grains make excellent insulators in brick production. Research engineers found that bricks made with 5% spent brewing grains were nearly 30% better insulators, and just as strong as traditional brick...
Thanksgiving: Pairing Beers with Pure, Wonderful Gluttony
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There is an exhaustive list of recommendation over at Serious Eats. Everything from Belgian sours to nutty browns is on the table if you will (I crack me up), but the closest thing to a consensus seems to be the cu...
Dogfish Head piles on the low-alcohol year-round release trend
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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...
Forget the Black Friday deals and get drunk
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Lakefront is once again making a special one-off batch to be released on Black Friday. Even if you hit them up to avoid the horrorscape of holiday-crazed shoppers, you may still have to get up early and get in line. ...
Man charged with boosting $38k worth of Guinness
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I don't even know how you get this dumb, but it may involve consumption of way too much Guinness while hatching a plan to make money. He allegedly admitted to Saddle Brook police that he drove to Pennsylvania, broke ...
All aboard the SS Dry Hop – Cigar City literally dry hopping at sea
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Cigar City is brewing an IPA in Puerto Rico and dry hopping it during the return voyage to Tampa. Don't that beat all? Cigar City is currently brewing about 200 barrels of the beer at a time in Puerto Rico, dry-ho...
A Primer on Identifying Styles
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CraftBeer.com has a great guide that should help newcomers and aspiring snobs alike. It gives you a handful of helpful guidelines in trying to figure out what something is and more importantly--what you actually like...
Tiny homebrew appliance PicoBrew Zymatic rakes in over $600k on kickstarter
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Not a bad haul for a $150k goal. Why can't we brew beer at home as easily as we can make a loaf of bread with a bread-maker, or a shot of espresso with an automatic espresso machine? Making quality beer this easily:...
Alchemist is shutting down access to its cannery
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Sad news for many up north. In an effort to stay ahead of the curve we have made the difficult decision to close our retail shop and self-guided tour area. Effective November 15 the cannery will no longer be open to ...
Georgia harasses Terrapin for doing nothing wrong
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The Georgia department of Revenue has a long (and lame) history of extracting money from breweries for no good reason. This is mostly due to Georgia's weird laws governing breweries. Now they're harassing Terrapin f...