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Beer Week Snapshot: Lexington Craft Beer Week

This weekend marks the start of the third annual Lexington Craft Beer Week, and Mashing In’s coverage of various beer weeks across the country. Beer weeks capture the essence of a town or a Lexington Craft Beer Week, Mashing Instate’s craft beer scene. They paint portraits of the diversity of drinkers, the craft beer innovations, and the trends of a particular place.

Oregon Garden Brewfest

Enjoy 130+ handcrafted beers and ciders, live music and great food at the 11th annual Oregon Garden Brewfest in historic Silverton, June 19-21. http://www.oregongarden.org/events/brewfest/    

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Raging Bitch

 

The dog days are approaching, and leading the charge is a beast in heat, Flying Dog’s Raging Bitch.

Rather than beating the heat, I have become one with it, complementing that peachy Belgian yeast and peppery hop twang with Knotty pretzels – the kind with hot wing seasoning.

You could say I’m a “Knotty Dog”, but I’m just answering nature’s call. 

- Jim Dykstra

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A New Patriot Act: Enjoy American Craft Beer

A New Patriot Act: Enjoy American Craft Beer

Brewers Association Libeerty American Craft Beer Week

Now in its tenth year, American Craft Beer Week is under way. Sponsored by the Brewers Association, the week-long promotion is focused on special events hosted by breweries and purveyors that highlight the art and revival of independent brewing in America.

“Celebrated since 2006, ACBW provides craft beer fans across the U.S. the chance to support their local brewery and, allows breweries and beer businesses the opportunity to connect with beer lovers,” said the BA media release. “Tens of thousands of beer beginners, beer enthusiasts and beer geeks toast the week each year.”

This year’s ACBW runs from Monday through Sunday. Here’s a link from the BA on the United States of Craft.

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Upland -- Wheat Ale

This beer strikes me as a happy blend of the Belgian Wit, American Wheat and Hefeweizen styles. The coriander and orange are there, but not overly so. That allows the wheat to shine through. And, it’s a really yeasty unfiltered beer.

The brewery’s website states it’s the best-selling beer brewed in the state of Indiana and we can understand why it’s Upland’s flagship.

What I really like is the “punch code” dating on the side of the label. A quick glance tells you the month and year of the best by date. Why can’t all craft beer in bottles be done this way?  

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Speakeasy Ales & Lagers Announces Expansion

The expanded San Francisco brewery increases its capacity for production from 15,000 barrels to 90,000. The expanded brewery's debut project will be its first canned offering, Baby Daddy Session IPA, on July 4.

Another San Francisco brewery, 21st Amendment, announced last year that they will cease contract brewing operations in Cold Spring, Minnesota and open up a new $21 million dollar brewing facility in the Northern California city of San Leandro. 

Here is the release from Speakeasy on its expansion:

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Strange Brews – The 10 Weirdest Beer Ingredients

Strange Brews – The 10 Weirdest Beer Ingredients

Precious Collagen Beer Weird Ingredients

Beer is an incredibly versatile beverage. Using only minimal ingredients familiar to the brewing and culinary arts, brewers are able to craft spectacularly varied beers that run the gamut of flavors and aromas.

Sometimes though, these few ingredients seem to make some brewers claustrophobic and they chafe under any cries for “purity” in beer. These 10 wacky brews throw the Reinheitsgebot and usual kitchen ingredients out the window and embrace some highly unorthodox approaches.

Here’s our top ten of the weirdest beers and their ingredients.


Precious – Do you enjoy drinking beer but worry about aging prematurely? Do you like your light lagers laced with anti-aging ingredients?

Well, you’ll love Precious, a beer that actually has collagen as an active ingredient. Yes, the most abundant protein in the human body now has a tasty way to be replenished.

This brew, first crafted in Hokkaido, Japan by Suntory Holdings Limited, is marketed heavily towards women, with one of its chauvinistic taglines making that blatantly obvious: “Guys can tell if a girl is taking collagen or not.”

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Here Comes the Hop Sun!

Today is National Beverage Day. Of course, beverage is a very broad term and could refer to anything from apple juice to snake juice. But do I really need to tell you what beverage we are partaking in this holiday?

No, it’s not an antacid soda but rather our namesake, that always-engaging and ever-versatile blend of malt, hops, water and yeast. That’s right – the one and only beer.

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Dry-Hopped Non-Alcoholic Beer Arrives

The Radeberger Gruppe USA has announced the U.S. launch of Clausthaler Amber Dry Hopped, the first dry-hopped non-alcoholic beer. The announcement marks another effort to produce more flavorful beer from an arm of the industry not typically associated with it.

This beer is also the first unfiltered non-alcoholic beer, and the first to use Cascade hops. See the full press release below:Clausthaler NA Beer Amber Dry Hopped

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North American Organic Brewers Festival Announces Dates for 2015

The 11th annual festival held in Portland, Oregon showcases over 50 beers and ciders in an attempt to highlight brewing as a sustainable practice. The drinks on tap are made from all-organic ingredients, with some breweries exclusively organic and the rest brewing a one-off all-organic brew specifically for the festival. The festival will be held from Thursday, August 13, to Sunday, August 16.

Here is the release from the festival:

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