If you appreciate relaxing with a drink, enjoy home brewing or have a knack for science, you may want to consider a career in craft brewing and distilling. Craft brewing is steadily increasing in popularity, and that growth has brought a growing ...
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Everything that doesn’t fit anywhere else. Opinion pieces, observations, novelties, goofy stuff and general ramblings.
Bottles vs Cans: What’s the Beer Deal?
Not long ago an acquaintance of mine, who shall remain anonymous (we’ll call him Beer Snob X), expressed his opinion. He said aluminum cans ruin the taste of beer.
Notice to Craft Beer Lovers: Please Don’t Feed the Trolls
If you pay much attention to the world of Craft Beer recently then you have almost certainly seen a number of online articles whose headlines read like this: “I Think Craft Beer is (Stupid/Bad/Pretentious/Responsible for Pearl Harbor)!” Whatever ...
Five Can’t Miss Breweries in New Mexico
Breweries in New Mexico make great beer. New Mexico has won 54 total medals at the Great American Beer Festival since 1991. That may not seem too impressive, until you discover that 8 medals were earned in 2013 and 9 medals in 2014. Let’s break ...
Passion or Paycheck? Debating A-B InBev’s Purchase of 10 Barrel Brewing
The recent purchase of 10 Barrel Brewing Company in Bend Oregon by Anheuser-Busch InBev set off arguments all over the craft beer universe. Responses ranged from congratulations for the financial jackpot that the company just hit to ...
Beer in PA, Things You May Not Know
Ah the Keystone State. We love our beer here (or at least a lot of us do), and we are pretty unique from the rest of the nation in a few ways you may not realize. Now, if you are reading this article chances are you are interested enough in beer ...
Brewmaster Garrett Oliver Teaches First Online Brewing Class at Skillshare
Garrett Oliver is a world-class beersmith and brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, but you probably already knew that. What you may not know is that he recently launched an online class, Creativity and Beer: A Brewmaster's Guide to Flavor Emulation ...
A-B InBev, SABMiller Merger Could be a Positive for the Craft Beer Market
First, a little pat on my own back, because I called this one. Reports have surfaced this last week that Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest beer producer with almost 20% of the world market in beer, has been exploring the possibility of ...
The “Futures” of Beer
While most bands celebrate album anniversaries with remastered versions, Jimmy Eat World have another idea.
The Growing Sector of Gluten Free Beer
“Gluten free” has become all the rage lately, plastered all over packaging in the supermarkets. Starting in 2011 with a paper published by Australian scientist Peter Gibson, the trend has led some to believe that by ingesting gluten, ...
