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Chicago Beer Society Tackles Beers Inspired by Belgium

June 15, 2007

When Ray Daniels and Randy Mosher put on a tasting, I sit up and take notice. This should be a good one. If you’re in the Chicago area in early July, you should definitely try to go to this one. Chicago Beer Society Tasting Features Flavor & Diversity of Belgian Cuisine From mussels to carbonnade [...]

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Welcome to the Bulletin’s New Home

May 21, 2007

Welcome to the Brookston Beer Bulletin’s new home on the web. Please change your bookmark, rss feed or link to reflect the new address, which is http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com. If you’ve linked to a specific page on the old Bulletin, such as http://www.brookston.org/beer/specific-page/, please simply replace the “”brookston.org/beer” portion of the code with “brookstonbeerbulletin.com” and it should [...]

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Achouffe Turning 25

May 13, 2007

Brasserie d’Achouffe, located in the small village of Achouffe in the heart of the Belgian Ardennes, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It was August 27, 1982 that Brasserie d’Achouffe brewed the 1st batch of La Chouffe. From August 10-12, they’ll be a big party at the brewery, which they’re calling La Grande Choufferie, [...]

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Session #4 Announced: Drink Locally

May 8, 2007

Snekse, of the Gastronomic Fight Club, a primarily food-oriented blog from Nebraska, will be hosting June’s “Session” and will be taking us in a bit of a different direction. With this Session, he wants to “create a guide book of tasting notes to drinking local.” The idea here is to be as helpful as possible [...]

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Lost Abbey Found-ed One-Year Ago

May 5, 2007

Today is the one-year anniversary of Pizza Port taking over Stone’s old brewery in San Marcos and re-making themselves into both Port Brewing and the Lost Abbey. They’ll be hosting what will surely be a great party to celebrate today at the brewery (see details below). Congratulations to Tomme Arthur and the gang at Port [...]

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Session #3 Announced: The Mysterious Misunderstood Mild

April 9, 2007

As I’ll be hosting next month’s “Session” on Cuatro de Mayo, or May 4, it’s time to unveil the theme for our third round. The theme will be “The Mysterious Misunderstood Mild” to coincide with CAMRA‘s May promotion Mild Month. Saturday the 5th will also be National Mild Day on the other side of the [...]

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Craft Brewers Pour into Austin in Two Weeks

April 4, 2007

Austin to Host Conference on Craft Beer Boulder, Colo. • In mid-April Austin will be flooded with flavorful craft beer and the brewers who make it. That’s when the Brewers Association, the not-for-profit trade association for America’s small brewers, will hold its annual professional conference. Craft brewers from across the country will pour into Austin [...]

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Four Points Announces CBO

March 26, 2007

The votes are in, the interviews are over, and the glasses are empty. Four Points Sheraton announced today that Scott Kerkmans, Beer Director of Phoenix, Arizona-based Draft Magazine, has been named Chief Beer Officer (CBO). He will ring the bell to open today’s New York Stock Exchange. I’m not quite sure what that has to [...]

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Iron Springs’ Newest Brewer

March 23, 2007

Join me in congratulating Mike and Anne Altman as they welcome the newest addition to the Iron Springs Brewing family. Joseph Evan Altman was born at 11:30 last night. Mother and son are doing great. Particulars: Original Gravity: 8 pounds, 1 ounce Style: Boy Release Date: March 22, 2007, 11:35 p.m. Label: Joseph Evan Altman [...]

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Sasquatch Scholarships

March 8, 2007

If you’ve ever been interested in becoming a brewer or a better brewer, this may be your chance. It’s time once again to apply for one of two brewing schloarships offered by the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation. It’s a terrific organization started by Glen’s brother Quentin to honor the memory of Glen and help other [...]

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Linda Starck Loses Her Battle With Cancer

February 23, 2007

Sad news, indeed, today as I got the word that earlier this morning Linda Starck passed away in her home. She will be deeply missed. Thanks to all the brewers, homebrewers and other caring people who gave so generously to help Linda with her battle. I know that she and her family greatly appreciated the [...]

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Pyramid Alehouse in Berkeley’s 10th Anniversary Party

February 20, 2007

The Pyramid Alehouse located on Gilman in Berkeley will be hosting a party March 1, beginning at 7:00 p.m. to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Washington brewery in California. 3.1 Pyramid Alehouse 10th Anniversary Party in Berkeley Pyramid Alehouse, 901 Gilman Street, Berkeley, California 510.528.9880 [ website ] [ tickets ]  

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Glass Bottle Workshop for Brewers

February 15, 2007

On March 1, the California Small Brewers Association, in conjunction ProBrewer.com, will be leading a half-day seminar focusing on the “resources, equipment and financial requirements of transitioning from pre-pack to bulk purchasing and the supply of glass to the beer industry. Suppliers of glass bottles and other vendors will be in attendance. This forum will [...]

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