Lagunitas alleges 420-related demands from SweetWater
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In a series of fairly weird tweets, Tony Magee of Lagunitas fame has accused SweetWater(though not by name) of sending him a cease and desist letter about the use of 420 on some Langunitas brews. https://twitter.co...
The Synth-yeast Cometh
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Science can make a whole lot of things better. Why shouldn't beer be one of them? As Popular Mechanics reports, the Yeast 2.0 project has designed and written an 11-million-letter DNA code which is being snipped out...
Tallgrass Ethos IPA – Beer of legend
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I'm a big fan of their Buffalo Sweat stout--just about the creamiest stout you'll ever have in a can, as well as their 8-bit Pale Ale which is fantastic for its packaging alone. I'm naturally excited about this new o...
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...
GWARBQ Brew by Cigar City – Teaser video
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Shot like a classic beer ad, but way more awesome (obviously). I posted previously about this totally real product. To be served at GWAR's annual festival.
Bigfoot is tall (as in vertical)
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Paste has a vertical tasting review that will make all barleywine lovers drool. Not everyone has the patience and discipline to buy and save the same beer for eight consecutive beers, but I can tell you the payoff of...
Bud Light is even more popular than you might think.
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Holy crap: that's a lot of Bud Light. [Bold added for emphasis:] If you add up every case of imported beer, craft beer, hard cider, and flavored malt beverages sold in 2013, you get 270,194,987. Bud Light sold 294,7...
Sweetwater hashing it up with concentrated lupulin
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The new brew is called Hop Hash. Brewers decided to throw a sticky SweetWater signature on this hopped up concoction, promising to deliver the dankest double IPA around. After scraping the hop pelletizers clean in Ya...
Kentucky Breakfast Stout Hypestravaganza 2015
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It's that time of year. Time to buy plane tickets and book hotel rooms to purchase a couple of beers. I'm not joking. This years annual circus of insanity includes vacation packages and a whole week of events and...
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.