Taking Beer Home Just Got Easier for Pennsylvanians

by Luke

For anyone who has ever lived in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, you know just how difficult it is to bring a 6-pack home with you. But thanks to that famous gas & convenience super-store Sheetz, getting your favorite brews into your fridge may soon be a little less headache-inducing (we’ll leave that up to your [...]

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In Brief: The Beast is Back

by Luke

The recent ending of August (and thus summer, for many of us) does bring with it one VERY good thing – the autumn beer menu. Award-winning Pumpkin Ales, Oktoberfests, and maybe most notably, The Beast. Brewed by Boulder’s Avery Brewing Co., The Beast–a super-hopped, almost syurpy-sweet ale, which boasts a whopping 15% ABV–may be a [...]

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Peak Organic to Sponsor Farm Aid ’07

by Luke

Leading U.S.organic brewery Peak Organic Brewery (located in Portland, Maine) has announced their sponsorship of Farm Aid 2007: A Homegrown Fesitval in New York City on September 9th. Peak Organic praised Farm Aid “for forging the urban-rural partnership needed to ensure the survival of the American family farmer”.  All three of Peak Organic Brewing’s beers–pale [...]

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2008 Beer Drinker of the Year: Now Accepting Applications

by Luke

Wynkoop Brewing Company is conducting its search for the 2008 Beerdrinker of the Year. The 12th annual contest seeks and honors the most passionate, knowledgeable beer lover and supporter in the United States. Wynkoop is now seeking “beer resumes” from the nation’s most beer-minded men and women. Resumes must include each entrant’s beerdrinking philosophy and [...]

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New Beer Labels Bare All

by Luke

The Washington Post is now reporting that beer drinkers concerned about the labels of their beers, might have another thing coming. The paper reports,  The Tax and Trade Bureau, the division of the U.S. Treasury Department that regulates all malt beverage packaging, has floated a proposal to require a “serving facts” panel on all alcoholic [...]

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New Laws Could Cripple Georgia’s Breweries for Good

by Luke

According to CNN Money this week, while Colorado boasts 44 independent breweries, Georgia, with twice the population, has only three, down from eight a decade ago. And new rules governing brewery tours could reduce that number to zero, says Fred Bensch, owner of Sweetwater Brewing in Atlanta, by driving away thirsty crowds and eliminating the [...]

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