On February 6th, Portland learned that decade-old Burnside Brewing was apparently no more.
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Bud Light spent the Super Bowl sending a pointed message about the ingredients of domestic light beers. It might not have been the best way to elevate their brand.
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Sometimes it takes an outsider to make you see how insular your world has become.
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10 Barrel Brewing recently released a fantastic video that has been viewed broadly. But what if you lack the funds an AB InBev-backed brewery has? Creative Director Jordan Wilson describes how Old Town Brewing gets its exceptional results on a budget.
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This morning, London’s last Victorian-era cask brewery announced it had sold its beer business to Asahi. That news should alarm anyone interested in the health of cask beer in Great Britain.
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Less than a year after Craft Brew Alliance turned the Widmer brewpub into a taproom, it’s shutting the whole thing down, citing “profitability challenges.”
Read MoreAfter forty years promoting good beer, Charlie Papazian is stepping down from the Brewers Association. It would be difficult to overstate his legacy.
Read MoreIt is difficult to brew with spices, and no one does it as well as the Belgians. In this first part of a two-part series, St. Feuillien brewer Alexis Briol offers the philosophy that guides Belgian thinking.
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One of the new crop of Trappist beers has arrived on American shores, and it turns out there’s quite a bit about the monastery, project, and beer that are out of the ordinary.
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Why do we have a more emotional connection to beer than, say, toothpaste brands? Because of evenings like these.
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In the bar’s dim light, it sparkled a molten gold. Clarion bright, as if to spite fans of haze. From it arose the scent of forest—shall we say spruce just to be interesting?
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The growth of new breweries has happened unevenly across the country in recent years. The reason for this is obvious once you see where new breweries are opening the fastest.
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We greet the new year with three depressing stories. If 2019 continues like this, we’re all going to be in trouble.
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A local-interest story in the Chicago Tribune about a small brewery serves as a perfect case to explain brewing in America in 2019.
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Sure, it’s the dead of winter and the holidays are finished. But fear not! Here are five good reasons to get excited about the new year.
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The title says it all.
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Riffing on the name Beervana, I have traditionally identified the best new beer of the year with the Satori award. It honors the beer that in a single instant, through the force of tastiness and elan, produces a similar flash of insight into the nature of beer.
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I will have written about 175 posts by the time 2018 is over. These are the best, and if you’re looking for something to read in front of the fire, have a look and see if you missed anything important.
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