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Interactive GABF Winners Map

October 4, 2011

This is pretty cool, an R. Lewis created a Google Map of all the GABF gold medal winners from this year.

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GABF Winners 2011

October 2, 2011

The 30th Great American Beer Festival is now in the history books, with some pretty impressive statistics. A record 3,930 beers were judged in 83 categories by 167 judges from 9 nations. Some more factoids on the results and the festival: 18 new breweries entering for the first time won a medal Category with the [...]

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The 30th Great American Beer Festival Judging

September 28, 2011

Right now I’m out in Denver, Colorado judging at the 30th Great American Beer Festival. Because it’s the 30th year, after orientation last night, they took an impromptu group photo of all 167 judges, or at least as many as would fit in the photo. See if you can find me (hint: I’m a little [...]

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Great American Beer Festival 1982 vs. 2011

September 23, 2011

Joey McDaniel created a cool infographic comparing the first Great American Beer Festival in 1982 to this year’s festival. Joey was introduced to craft beer by his wife, Jen, and together they run the beer blog Wet Your Whistles, covering beer in the Bay Area, with an emphasis on the “watering holes along the San [...]

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Talking (And Drinking) Like A Pirate

September 19, 2011

As today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, I thought I’d share this version of the Pirate Alphabet, which seems to be more about beer than piracy. THE PIRATE ALPHABET A — The favorite word of Canadian pirates, ey? B — B stands for Beer! C — Da ting we sails da boat on [...]

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Bistro IPA Festival Winners 2011

August 7, 2011

Family commitments kept me from attending this year’s Bistro IPA Festival, but owner Vic Kralj was kind enough to send me the list of the winners. Craig Cauwels’ IPA, from Schooner’s in Antioch, California, was chosen best in show at the 14th annual IPA Festival yesterday at the Bistro in Hayward, California. The full list [...]

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OBF Opening Ceremonies

August 1, 2011

After we marched from McMenamin’s Crystal Ballroom to the Tom McCall Waterfront Park and the Oregon Brewers Festival, the ceremonial keg was brought into the park by the Hammerheads from this year’s parade host brewery, McMenamin’s. Hammerheads and the ceremonial cask. The Hammerheads and the Ruby Witches McMenamins’ folks positioned themselves in front of the [...]

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Oregon Brewers Festival Parade 2011

July 28, 2011

Although I missed last year’s Oregon Brewers Festival for the first time in many years, it felt like it had been at least five years since I’d been back. That’s how much I missed Portland, and I was thrilled to be there again. After the Brewer’s Dinner Wednesday night, I attended the brunch, this year [...]

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Happy International Brewers Day

July 18, 2011

Today is the 4th annual holiday celebrating brewers around the world, International Brewers Day, which I created in 2008. While I haven’t been able to put as much effort into it as I might have liked, someday I will. In the meantime, some parts of the international brewing community are carrying on with celebrations, most [...]

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Moylan’s Wins Big at Australian International Beer Awards

June 17, 2011

Back in November, the call went out through the BA’s Export Development Program for brewers around the world to enter the Australian International Beer Awards for 2011. When my local brewpub Moylan’s Brewery & Restaurant decided to enter some of their beer, they couldn’t have known how well it would turn out for them. Moylan’s [...]

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Beer Birthday: Bert Grant

May 17, 2011

Today would have been Bert Grant’s 83rd birthday, and he is definitely missed. Bert opened the country’s first brewpub in 1982 in Yakima, Washington and was a fixture in the industry until his death in late July of 2001. Join me tonight in lifting a pint to Bert’s memory. Bert Grant and me at OBF [...]

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South Beer Cup Winners Announced

May 15, 2011

Regular readers have probably noticed that my usual output has been diminished here of late, that’s because I’ve been in Buenos Aires, Argentina since Monday. I was fortunate enough to be invited to judge at the very first South Beer Cup, South America’s version of the Great American Beer Festival and the Craft Brewers Conference [...]

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Session #51 Round-Up & Announcing Session #51.5

May 7, 2011

Well that was great fun, I was certainly glad to see so many people step up and participate, despite my best efforts to make things as difficult as possible. And everybody seemed to have a very good time, too. Cheese and beers just brings out the best in all of us, I guess. Anyway, I’m [...]

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Graduation & Prom Drinking

May 4, 2011

Apparently prom season and graduation time is coming up, because the scary statistics that always accompany this time of year are also starting to appear. Now before the angry comments start filling my queue, I’m not encouraging drinking at either, and especially not drinking and driving, no matter what the occasion. There are, however, some [...]

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Tour de Geuze 2011

May 3, 2011

The biennial Toer de Geuze, or Tour de Gueuze, took place last week in Belgium. In a news report on Flemish National Television, both our own Steve Shapiro, from Beer by Bart, and Pete Slosberg, founder of Pete’s Wicked Ales, are interviewed in the piece. And Pete’s wife, Amy Slosberg, can be seen nursing her [...]

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No Beer At Royal Wedding?

April 25, 2011

Another royal wedding’s coming up this Friday. I care about it as much as the last one in 1981 — not one whit. In deference to my British colleagues and friends who cling to the notion that the royal family matters, I’ll spare you my usual diatribe. But it was announced recently that no beer [...]

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