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Manitoba says it wants to update its Liquor Control Act to allow brew pubs, Liquor Mart boutiques in grocery stores and the ability to bring your own wine to restaurants.

Zach Galifianakis: bro-dawg, beardo, and apparently huge environmentalist. a Things we have learned about dudes from beer commercials: Dudes like beer and camaraderie, and they dislike effort and fussy groomy things like shaving.

Court Avenue Brewing Company beers will be available at the Craft Brew Festival.

American Craft Beer Week is in full swing here in the Denver, making our ale and lager-focused city even more enthusiastic about hitting the bars and drinking up craft liquids in celebration of the occasion.

American Craft Beer Week has found a home in cities nationwide, but Boulder remains the hoppy heartland for those who want a little more sophistication with their brews.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Prime Minister David Cameron walk through a service tunnel at the Guinness Brewery in Dublin Thursday May 19 2011 A special six-pack of Guinness could be winging its way to Downing Street to commemorate David Cameron's visit to th

(Placentia, CA) – The Bruery announced that it is investing further in its brewery and shifting its focus even more on barrel-aged beers. In doing so, there is a casualty and a couple other changes. Per a newsletter/news release just sent out…

(Fort Collins, CO) – The craft brewery boom continues. As Sierra Nevada continues its search for a second brewery location in the East part of the U.S., we learn today that New Belgium is also on the hunt out east as well. In an email last month, Ne

(New Albany, IN) – Some collaboration news out of Indiana… Here is the scoop from New Albanian Brewing Co-Owner, Roger Baylor, on the brewery’s collaborations with Struise: B’Urban Trotter DIPA and Naughty Girl. “Draft for bo

Another batch of new beer labels…mostly East stuff here. White IPA (Collaboration #2): The Boulevard/Deschutes collaboration gets label approval. Bell’s Wedding Ale: Approved for 750s Cigar City Xenu Cream Ale: Draft approval only at the momen

(Brooklyn Center, MN) – Here is a roundup of some recent Surly Brewing news. Surly Five: Has received approval for 750ml bottles. Label copy: “In the Surly brewhouse brewing our Anniversary beers mean one thing, forget what ya know and try som

Finally, a new batch of beer labels…West edition. Epic Hop Syndrome Lager: Per Utah Beer, “The latest in the Exponential Series is a lager that has got caught up in the American hop craze. Hop Syndrome is a new lager that uses all Wyermann Ger

Episode 55. This is one of THOSE DRUNK episodes. This week your favorite video beer review podcast drinks a little too much. We also get to drink Hr. Frederiksen Imperial stout by Amager Bryghus Brewery. We also have a cameo by Ms. Disdain and if you list

Episode 54 . During a time where the end of the TBQ is near, two individuals decided to take over Hawaii's favorite video beer podcast. In this episode The REAL Russel and Bully take a back seat as Kaeo and Steph review Tokyo Imperial Stout by BrewDog bre

Honolulu. Hi – April 1, 2011. Many have asked and speculated on why Russel and Bully have decided to end the Two Beer Queers video podcast. Today after months of silence and lies to others, the truth needs to be told. We have recently decided to take our

Episode 53. Yeah we know, we say episode 54, but we were a little bit tipsy at the time. The countdown to the end of your favorite video beer review podcast is near. This week we try the Prickly Pear Braggot by Widmer Bros. But, we think we tried it a lit

Episode 52 . The end is near for your favorite video beer podcast, but the fun continues, FINALLY! After a few months hiatus, Russel and Bully are back and tackle the Renegade Blonde Ale from Iron Fist Brewery . We also send a few shout outs to @Melissa80

During my vacation to Washington, I had a chance to drink some mean beers from many breweries. One brewery in particular was out in the boon docks of Washington, in a place called Snoqualmie. Along with some good beer, they had some awesome help who talke

No, a cask of beer is NOT a keg, and, no, a keg is NOT a cask. Consider a cask as a brewery's small, portable, tank of fermenting beer, often 10.8 gallons, a size known as a 'firkin.' The ale within —known as cask-conditioned ale or real ale— is fermentin

Earlier this week, I was told that the name Yours for Good Fermentables was an "unfortunate" choice. It's a twenty year brand, so there will be no apology or alteration, thank you very much.But then, there are things that are indeed out of my control. YFG

It's always a pleasure to talk with Steve Jones, a British biochemist turned brewmaster for Oliver Breweries, a brewpub in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It's especially so, over a pint of one his cask-conditioned ales. Recently, Jones was 50 miles south of hi

The Session is a monthly event for the beer blogging community begun in March of 2007 by Stan Hieronymus of Appellation Beer, and co-moderated with Jay Brooks of the Brookston Beer Bulletin. On the first Friday of every month, one beer blogger hosts The

In northern Virginia, in early May 2011, it's an early evening sun-shower.********************Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of personal photos, often posted on Saturdays, and often, but not always, with a good fermentable as a subject.

A friend asked me for a recipe for 'ham in beer' for her Easter dinner. So I, in turn, turned to friend Lucy Saunders at beercook.com. Here's Lucy's recipe for Roast Pork Tenderloin in Brown Ale, from her book, The Best of American Beer & Food.From th

With slowly creeping hop levels and increasingly complex degrees of barrel aging, the very definition of beer has evolved if not mutated into some improbable beast of flavor and fancy in recent years. But this era of spiraling expressionism has led to the

As we’ve been discussing here for the last few weeks, the Great Beer Exodus of brewers leaving far-flung markets continues to ratchet up new entrants every week. The Avery Brewing Company of Boulder, Colorado, is the latest to announce the results o

With many brewers, bar owners, and writers just settling in from a long week at the annual Craft Brewers Conference in San Francisco, the week was supposed to be relatively quiet. We of course now know that this past week was destined to be one of the cra

Of course, a day or so after I stick my neck out for the big brewers saying they may have turned a corner, writer and television host Anthony Bourdain sent out a couple of bombshell tweets in which he seems to suggest that the Discovery Channel is either

Now I have in the not-so-recent past been accused of being a Goose Island-apologist and even a touch sycophantic when it comes to my hometown brewer. And I have made clear my respect for Goose Island and its founding family, including John and Greg Hall.

I was hoping for a slow day at the office but that foolish idea was dashed with the news that Anheuser-Busch InBev planned to purchase a full ownership interest in Chicago-based brewer Goose Island. The news certainly sent shock waves through the industry

From their farm and our brewery to the table, The Restaurant at Patowmack Farm is hosting their first Flying Dog beer dinner on Friday, May 20. The Restaurant at Patowmack Farm is a farm-to-the-table concept with exceptional local, organic, and sustainabl

In honor of our Road to the Perfect Pour pairing competition with our Snake Dog IPA and range of Buffalo Wild Wings sauces, we created a Craft Beer TV game show on everyone’s favorite topics: beer and food! Can our first contestant take the heat? Find out

Join us at a landmark Frederick establishment – Red Horse Inn – for their first Flying Dog beer dinner April 19. Dinner begins at 6 pm with a reception of our Doggie Style Classic Pale Ale paired with tomato and mozzarella bruschetta. The rest

If you missed the magic of our Woodberry Kitchen beer dinner in Baltimore last week (or if you want to relive it again and again), our staff filmmaker Tim shot a bad ass feature on the restaurant itself and the beer and food featured. Check it out on our

We’re pleased to be a part of Olives Italian Ristorante and Lounge’s first beer dinner on March 15. Here’s a look at the night’s menu: First Course: Radicchio Salad A wedge of radicchio served with caramelized onions, grape tomatoe

With an emphasis on local growers, organic meats, and sustainable agriculture, Woodberry Kitchen features cooking firmly grounded in the traditions and ingredients of the Chesapeake region. As Maryland’s largest local brewery, we are stoked to partn

One of my favorite breweries based solely on their branding and bottle designs has to be Flying Dog out of Frederick, Maryland.  If you haven’t seen their beer around, make sure to checkout their site and take a look at the artwork on the bottles.  

Todays review for my 50 beer challenge, takes us across the country to the state of Rhode Island where I tried out Narragansett’s Summer Ale. For those unfamiliar with Narragansett beer, you may recognize the name from the movie Jaws, where the Narr

For the 2nd beer of my 50 day beer challenge, I decided I would keep it local and review a beer from brewery just a few minutes away from me. Hair of the Dog Brewing Company, located in Portland, Oregon was founded in 1993 and has become home of some of t

Today is the first day of American Craft Beer Week, which means my 50 beers from 50 different states in 50 days challenge officially starts. For my first review, I figured I would start with a beer from my home state of Washington that is brand new.  Simp

Next Monday starts the beginning of American Craft Beer Week and to celebrate I am starting a new challenge. Starting Monday, I will be attempting to drink and review 50 beers in 50 days from each of the 50 states. Basically I am going to try and find a c

Next week, May 16-22, people from all over the country will be celebrating American Craft Beer Week.  In fact there are official events being hosted in all 50 states for the very first time (very cool). The event was designed to honor the more than 1700 c

Click over to the our expanded blog THE HEDONIST JIVE, which casts a net well beyond craft beer and into all sorts of personal obsessions – music, film, politics, baseball, naval-gazing and extreme narcissism. And beer. Bookmark http://www.hedonistji

Let’s take a moment to give thanks and praise to the beers that rejoice and sing hosannas with the angels, shall we? Expanded from the Hedonist Beer Jive 75, let me present to you the HEDONIST BEER JIVE 95 – the ninety-five finest ales (and lagers!) to ha

One of our favorite games here at the HBJ is "Belgian roulette", a game where you risk $5-$6 of your hard-earned money on a Belgian bottle you've never heard of nor have any idea what to expect. As we say in the trade, "Sometimes you win, sometime you los

Earlier in the year it seemed nigh impossible that we’d ever get to try beers from Wisconsin-only brewery NEW GLARUS BREWING, they of the lofty reputation for making incredible fruit-packed and otherwise outstanding ales. Yet here we are in mid-April, wri

“Beer journalism”. Now there’s an oxymoron, hunh? Well, as someone embedded on the beer-soaked “front lines” of “emerging media”, I think that those of us who write about beer are certainly ripe for mockery, myself included. I force myself to slog through

All I wanted was a Pepsi, just a Pepsi – No, all I really wanted was a refreshing adult beverage, preferably a nice hoppy pale ale or IPA or witbier – something to take the sweat off my brow and help lighten my loafers. I was in New York City last week, a

Today I have what is sure to be a fun brew from the always creative Mikkeller and BrewDog. Once again working together to craft beer in BrewDog’s Scotland brewery. This time around things are a bit different, as this is no regular collaborative brew

Today I have another brew that was brought to me from Australia. Fat Yak Pale Ale is brewed by the folks of Matilda Bay Brewing in what they like to call their “Garage Brewery”. Founded in 1984 Matilda Bay’s brewers seem to have a passio

Today I have a brew that I had almost forgotten about. Luckily it hasn’t been sitting in my cellar for too long and at 8.5% ABV I have faith this brew could store well, albeit at a loss of hop esters as is typical. While I have yet to write about It

I typically try to write about beers before ever trying them as I enjoy the process of tasting, learning and watching opinions evolve. So I must note that I first had a glass of this brew last night and can’t wait to consume it again. I have had the

Today I have a beer that was brought back from Australia for me by a friend. I have been excited to try the brews of Little Creatures since I first hear of them about a year ago while talking beer with the significant other of a family friend that was in

Today I have a brew from Deschutes Brewing that I have been wanting to try since last year. Deschutes, being new to our market at the time, didn’t send any of  their Red Chair Northwest Pale Ale into our market last season so I had no choice but to

I've decided to put the blog to sleep. To be honest I've gotten bored with it and lack the motivation to post with any regularity. I shall keep the blog here rather than shut it down, and will still be twittering or whatever it's called and the latest t

18 or so members of the Northants Branch of CAMRA attended the Pub Of The Year presentation at The Coach & Horses in Wellingborough in Monday night.It was a good evening (even if I did have to drive) with Phil our branch chair doing us proud with a go

It seems very strange writing about Summer beers whilst sat in my conservatory with the rain absolutely lashing it down and disturbing the peace of an otherwise empty house, but the pubs are starting to fill with beers which brewers choose to name Summer

As well as the usual suspects, I did visit a few other pubs whilst in Brighton. Most of these were in the current Good Beer Guide or on the local CAMRA branch's ale trail.The exception to that was The Pump House in The Lanes which I visited twice. This

I enjoy going on my annual sojourn to Brighton, as there are a handful of pubs which I could never tire of, all of which sell beers I rarely see up here.My first pub was The Lord Nelson on Trafalgar Street which is a Harveys pub. Harveys beers are not un

I'm going to Suffolk for a week towards the end of June, and will be staying very near Southwold, which is, of course Adnams country. Looks like I've timed it well as this new beer should be available.I do like Nelson Sauvin hops.