Beer Industry

  • Garrett Oliver Brooklyn Brewery

    Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery

    Garrett Oliver, the founder and brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery is one of the most important figures in craft beer. As…

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  • The Brick Store Pub

    The Brick Store Pub

    On a balmy Saturday afternoon in early October, a convivial throng of beer connoisseurs stood three-deep at the bar at…

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  • Victory Brewery Exterior

    Victory Brewery Tour

     In Downingtown, Pa., however, there is no question that Pepperidge Farm bread came first – in the former bakery that…

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  • Tony Magee

    Lagunitas Brewery Tour

    He formulates the brewery’s recipes, which tend toward the strong and hoppy, gives his beers names like Undercover Investigation Shut-Down…

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  • Real Time with Bill Maher Beer Connoisseur

    A Shout-Out To The Beer Connoisseur on Real Time with Bill Maher

    The Beer Connoisseur received an unsolicited mention on Bill Maher’s HBO comedy show Real Time with Bill Maher. The segment,…

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  • Tropicana Atlantic City

    Craft Beer In Casinos

    I’ll bet that you have been tempted to gamble at some point in your life and since you are reading…

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  • John Maier, founder and brewmaster of Rogue Ales & Spirits walking in a hop field

    John Maier, Born To Be Rogue

    If a beer-inspired genealogist ever traced a craft brewers’ family tree, Rogue Ales’s brewer, John Maier, would certainly be one…

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  • Man and woman toasting beer glasses at Pouring at the Coast Brewfest: Seaside Orgegon

    Pouring at the Coast: Seaside Oregon Craft Beer Festival

    Pouring at the Coast was a craft beer tasting and food-pairing festival held in Seaside, Oregon in March 2011. Presented…

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  • Italy Beer Country

    Italy’s Craft Beer Awakening

    If you look at a map of the wine, beer and spirits belts, you’ll see that Italy is almost exclusively…

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  • Thomas Keller Gastronomy

    Thomas Keller’s Culinary Empire

    Stepping unaware into the dining room of Thomas Keller’s flagship restaurant in Yountville, California, one would never guess the intimate…

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  • Jim Koch Samuel Adams

    Innovators Series: Jim Koch

    Of all the American brewers out there, Jim Koch is perhaps the most recognizable. TV viewers have come to expect…

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  • Can of Orion Beer, popular Okinawa beer, laying on a lawn

    Orion Beer: The National Beer of Okinawa

    I’ve attended only one professional wrestling card in my life, but what an event. A few years ago, Okinawa Professional…

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