Category: News
The guy suing over Blue Moon is an idiot
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BeerGraphs lists all the salient points in this case and tries to be nice about it. But doesn't everyone do this? Your Mercedes dealer isn't required to tell you that you are buying a Chrysler. There's no mention of ...
Sam Adams is bringing back one of their discontinued beers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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!
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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...
NFL punter is apparently also experienced homebrewer
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NFL preseason starts up in little more than a week and All About Beer has a nice little piece about NFL punter Brandon Fields and how he gets his jollies during the offseason. Fields scored big, though, with a pumpki...