Craft Beer

Sanders urged San Diegans to support the local craft beer industry, which is quickly growing. Just in the past six months, five new breweries have opened in San Diego including Green Flash Brewing Company, New English Brewing Company, Rough Draft Brewing ...  

Sanders also cited a recent New York Times article that ... He said Coronado Brewing Company and Hess Brewing Company are scheduled to open later this summer in San Diego. The city has provided $400,000 in micro-loans to two breweries based ...  

Tonawanda News — These days most craft brewers or microbreweries probably wouldn’t say their glass is half full or half empty — they might say it’s completely empty instead. That’s because brewers in New York state could be in for some rough ...  

For craft beer lovers, Bud Light or Heineken just doesn't cut it. They prefer ales and lagers brewed on a much smaller scale and with names like Coco Loco or Buckshot Amber Ale. But getting drinkers to make the leap from a mass-produced beer like Miller Lite to a Highland Gaelic Ale can be difficult. One UNC Charlotte student is up for the challenge. And he's formed a new group on campus to help.  

Baker City’s second brewery, the Bull Ridge Brewpub that I first blogged about nearly a year ago, is now officially brewing beer! I noticed the updates on their Facebook page (here and here) which read: WE ARE OFFICIAL!!!!! We have been granted the Authority to Operate by the OLCC, and with our other licensing in place, we are officially TODAY a Brewery Public House!! Walter will start brewing next Tuesday in anticipation of our first beer...  

When Creative Loafing featured Ale Yeah! in our First Draft beer column this past fall, Eddie Holley's craft-beer haven located on the W. College Ave. edge of Oakhurst in between Avondale Estates and Kirkwood was one of the Atlanta metropolitan area's newest places to procure the finest in non-macro brews, from IPAs to imperial stouts to Belgian lambics.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

Tuesday, May 29, 2012.--Mystic Brewery, LLC in Chelsea, MA is pleased to announce the debut of three new beers at the upcoming American Craft Beer Fest on June 1st and 2nd at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. This year’s festival, sponsored by ...  

When I first wrote about craft beer in cans way back in 2004, the pickings were slim. The only American craft beer in a can sold in the Boise area was MacTarnahan’s Amber Ale. That’s it. Other options were imports like Guinness or Heineken.  

My, how things have changed at the liquor stores and restaurants in Albert Lea. Six years ago about the only craft beers a customer could find was Samuel Adams, Summit or else a few craft-beer knockoffs produced by large companies, such as Coors ...  

PORTLAND - Oregon's craft beer industry is having a growth spurt, not only in the Pacific Northwest, but all across the country. Some said it's so hot that you could call the Rose City the craft brew center of the nation, and the world for that matter. Portland has more breweries than any other city in the country.  And that will likely continue. From nano to micro to regional breweries, the number is growing. Gigantic Brewing is the...  

SHIPSHAPE: Seven Sheds Brewery head brewer Willie Simpson, who is crafting a beer aged on the Spirit of Tasmania II. Picture: CHRIS KIDD WHAT difference will 23 voyages across Bass Strait make to the taste of beer? Head brewer at Railton's Seven Sheds ...  

Craft beer has been packaged in modern aluminum cans since 2002, when the Oskar Blues Brewery began canning its Dale’s Pale Ale. Since then, the “canned craft beer” movement has grown rapidly. Washington state, for one reason or another ...  

This month writer and radio talk show host David Sirota published a column in Salon titled 'Can Beer Save America?' The article explored the competition between the craft brewing industry and macrobrew corporations. Sirota contends the 'battle' represents  

Educating consumers to drink less, but drink better beer, is an important platform of the new Craft Beer Industry Association (CBIA), James Squire brewmaster Dr Chuck Hahn has told TheShout exclusively. Hahn, one of the CBIA's new board members ...  

I will admit it (and I may have said this before): Cascadian Dark Ale is not my favorite style. For me it’s too much of a weird clash of dark, roasty, possibly astringent malt character with the floral, herbal bitterness of the hops—and too often, they’re not brewed well enough to get past this discord. That being said, there are of course examples I like. Turmoil from Barley Brown’s Brewpub is at the top of the list for me. Deschutes Brewery...