Welcome back again beer lovers, sippers, fanatics, dabblers, and dynamos. This past weekend saw one of six Beer Camp festivals come to Seattle. Complete with 100+ breweries from across the country, hundreds of beers. Good times were had. The culmination of this has been made available to nearly everyone through the [...]
Beyond the four main ingredients in beer (malted barley, hops, water and yeast), many brewers also use a variety of other ingredients, including spices, chocolate, fruits, vegetables, sugars, roots, you name it. But some brewers take things a bit further by adding extremely uncommon or shocking ingredients. Sometimes they do this as gimmicky marketing [...]
Sam Calagione, owner of Dogfish Head has sold a minority stake of it's brewery to a private equity firm out of New York. Calagione sold a 15% stake in his company to the LNK private equity firm, following suit with other breweries who have gone the private equity route, such as [...]
Pumpkin beers, in July? Yes, some have been released already, and many more are sure to come, and no, right now pumpkins are not even in season. Somehow, that doesn't stop Elysian (and others), from releasing pumpkin beers in July and August. I, like many others will happily celebrate the arrival [...]
Session beers? What are they? Why are they a thing? Session beers are a simple category, well at least they were for quite a while. At it's simplest a "Session Beer" is any beer with an ABV <5%, so that you may enjoy a few at a barbeque, on a boat, [...]
When I visited North Carolina a few years ago I was informed by my good buddy that NC was becoming a hotbed for craft beer. The area is great for raising hops the local municipalities were very business friendly. I had no idea to what extent though. Over the past few [...]
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