Oskar Blues introduces 32 oz “Crowler”
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"My can is too small!" "My growler is too...not aluminum!" THERE'S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY! A CROWLER™ (CAN + growler) is a 32-ounce CAN filled with fresh craft beer from the source. Yep, draft beer in a portabl...
Growler delivery: for the intersection of sloth and gluttony
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If you're in the bay area and you love everything about draught beer except for leaving your couch to obtain it--good news! Hopsy, the recently launched online marketplace for local craft beer, today announced the la...
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...
Breaking Brew: ABQ-based Marble Brewery makes a Walter White tribute
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According to this photo on instagram (which has some credible imagery for confirmation to say the least), it's going to be an India Black Ale called Heisenberg's Dark. Albuquerque based @marblebrewery will be brewing...
What beer goes with Girl Scout Cookies?
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Here's several suggestions to get you started. I'm not entirely sure how helpful this information will be to a non-enthusiast, though. For Samoas alone the suggestions range from porter to scotch ale to Belgian-st...
Don’t feel bad if you don’t homebrew
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I'm somebody that has always felt a bit overwhelmed by the prospect of homebrewing. I've never taken the plunge, but it always seemed like an expensive and impractical hobby. From a distance, it also always seemed t...
Cigar City to make “Impaled Ale” for GWAR B-Q
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Look, this is exactly what it sounds like: “Once again, we blow the horn of war and set into motion the gears that grind us towards the greatest GWAR B-Q yet,” said Brokie (AKA Oderus Urungus). “We will be shoving a ...
Greg Koch going off the grid
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I don't mean green energy for the brewery--I mean the Stone co-founder is going on an extended hiatus from human civilization. But he's not just leaving Stone high and dry. Before he leaves on a six-month, off-the-g...
Michael Jackson saved Saison
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I missed this a couple of weeks ago but it's worth sharing now. There are just a few "must-read" articles about beer every year and this is one of them. Writer Michael Jackson, who called Saison Dupont “a down-to-ea...
Making Great Beer – The Secret is in the Water
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One of the most important ingredients in a well crafted beer, one that beer drinkers often forget about, is the water. Most people think that 'water is water', but they couldn't be more wrong. Good quality water is an...