December 2007

A Beer for the Ladies

by Luke

It was widely reported last month that figures showed beer sales in pubs across the UK at their lowest level for 70 years with sales supposedly down 49 per cent since they peaked in 1979. But one young entreprenuer is doing her part to change all of that. That’s right, I said “her”. Harriet Easton, [...]

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Solidarity ‘Stache

by Luke

As the Terrapin Beer Company, which opperates out of Athens, Georgia, continues their long wait for a state brewing license (the company signed a lease for a 45,000-square-foot brewery in March!), frustration among brewers and fans alike is growing. But now the Terrapin team has an answer for those looking to show solidarity: grow your ‘stache! According to [...]

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Sam Adams Utopias Auctioned to Benefit The Leary Firefighters Foundation

by Luke

Jim Koch, the founder of Samuel Adams, has teamed up with Denis Leary and The Leary Firefighters Foundation to create a very unique package of items to be auctioned off on eBay, just before the holidays. Included in the package is the first bottle of the limited edition 2007 batch of Samuel Adams Utopias autographed by Jim Koch, a custom [...]

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Keeping Costs Down: Gritty McDuffs Adds Grain Silo

by Luke

There have been reports in every news outlet you can think of over the past few months about the raising costs of two of beer’s chief ingredients – both hops and barley malt. But what are breweries doing to combat the increased costs without doing too much damage to their pockets or ours? One Maine [...]

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Beer Madness Head-to-Head Beer Tournament

by Luke

While aimlessly passing time at work today in an attempt to do no actual work to speak of, I stumbled upon (under my own power, without the aid of a search engine by the same name) an interactive beer thingy challange on the Washington Post‘s website, which appeared in a recent Sunday Source section of [...]

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Flying Dog Flies it Colorado Coop

by Luke

Eric Warner, president and CEO of Flying Dog Brewing, announced today that as of January 2008, Flying Dog will close the doors on its Denver, Colorado brewery and move all of its production to its state-of-the-art brewery in Frederick, Maryland. Rather than invest the $1 million needed to renovate the Denver location, Flying Dog decided [...]

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