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Going With the Grain
When New Zealander Peter Eastwood started his homebrewing business in 1989, most homebrewers used extract kits for their ease of…
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‘Local Shelf’ Brings Home Out-of-State Beers
The Local Shelf Beer Mystery Box Exchange doesn’t want your whales. LSBMBE takes a different route from the usual beer…
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Not Quite The Golden Age for Craft TV Ads
In light of an ongoing aggressive TV campaign by Anheuser-Busch that seeks to divide Budweiser drinkers from those who choose…
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For the Love of Gourd
Mega-pregnant and massively irritated by last summer’s sweltering weather, my wife made a serious demand. “We need to get out…
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Drink and Run the Healthy Way
No longer confined to pubs with a good beer list, it is not uncommon to find athletes consuming craft beer…
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Nitro Fever Hits Bottles
Nitro beer sounds like a power adjunct borrowed from Wrestlemania or maybe even drag racing’s Nitro Funny Cars. When it…
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Gose Style Comes and Goes
The Gose style started in a place called Goslar, in Germany, where minerals from the nearby Harz Mountains provided the…
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Secret Stash Bash 2015
The two sessions of the event were spread out over six and a half hours, and by the time I…
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The Great American Beer Festival 2012: A Look Back
The buzz for this annual gathering of brewers, distributors, and acolytes began even earlier than usual this year when 49,000…
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Literary Beer: Brewing in the Classics
Great novelists did not just write about strong beer. Take James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” for example, undoubtedly one of the great…
