Category: News
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...
Documentary about the struggles of opening a brewery
30 Views0 Comments
This sounds like a good watch. After a successful kickstarter this film is in the final stages of promotion leading up to a release during the fall of this year. In the meantime, MittenBrew has a nice interview ...
Sam Adams is bringing back one of their discontinued beers
188 Views0 Comments
Full scoop at the full pint. Samuel Adams brewers will pull recipes from their “vault” and ultimately choose two winning brews to be re-released nationally for a limited time. Through online and in-person voting, dri...
Great article on beer aging
35 Views0 Comments
Complete with a review of an 18-year-old (!!) barleywine. There's a ton of great info, getting into the weeds with the specifics: You’ll also notice that ribes, a quality associated with blackcurrant, is on both l...
New documentary series on San Diego beer from PBS
79 Views0 Comments
It's called "Kings of the Craft". Check out the trailer above. Debuts this Thursday, May 21st at 9pm on PBS stations and will be streaming online the following day.
Bells announces participants for 30th anniversary fest
43 Views0 Comments
Bells is inviting breweries from all of the country to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Full list is here. Most of the usual suspects are here but there's some very distant and relatively small breweries on the l...
States ranked by “most solid” beer
34 Views0 Comments
Beer graphs compared the BAR25 (the combined aggregate quality of the top quarter of a brewery's offering) and solid% state by state. The results are actually pretty intriguing! Pour yourself a delicious frosty mu...
Say what?! Jester King is using green glass on purpose!
34 Views0 Comments
Many will find themselves unable-to-even with this. While green bottles permit the risk of light struck/skunky character, I feel they add character, even beyond skunkiness. So many breweries have attempted to mimic t...
Brewers adapt to changing climate
30 Views0 Comments
Brewing has been a highly adaptive endeavor for hundreds of years. Everything from using the abundance of the wheat crop to adjusting recipes to new temperatures has led not only to plentiful availability but highly...
Happy Birthday, America!
133 Views0 Comments
Independence Day is a fine reminder of our country's relationship with and contributions to beer. From a founding father being plastered on a zillion bottles of beer bearing his namesake to the exploding craft brewin...