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Guinness Foreign Extra Stout Finally Coming To U.S.

September 22, 2010

At long last, Diageo has announced that Guinness Foreign Extra Stout will be returning to the United States. Discontinued after Prohibition in 1920, it’s been 90 years since it was legally available here. Thanks to Beer Advocate for the tip. From the press release: Tuesday, September 28th is National Drink Beer Day! As if you [...]

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MillerCoors Launches Craft & Import Division

August 13, 2010

While MillerCoors had already announced their intention to start up a new division dedicated to its smaller brands and imports, today they announced that Tenth and Blake Brewing Co. was open for business. There’s no website yet, but there is a Facebook page. Here’s the press release: Tenth and Blake Beer Company Opens for Business [...]

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A Done Deal: NAB Buys Magic Hat & Pyramid

August 11, 2010

The deal that was rumored late last month is now completed. North American Breweries has bought the Magic Hat, Pyramid and Portland breweries. The deal includes three breweries, five alehouses and one retail store. From the press release: According to Rich Lozyniak CEO of North American Breweries, the new beers add craft brewing credibility, and [...]

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Urban Chestnut Brewery To Open In St. Louis By Former A-B Brewer

August 10, 2010

This is excellent news. I just got an e-mail from Florian Kuplent, one of my favorite brewers at A-B (including Mitch Steele, of course). His Bavarian Wheat beer is/was divine. Last week he left A-B and along with fellow ex-A-B employee David Wolfe to open a new craft brewery in St. Louis. The new brewery, [...]

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MADD Charity Rating Downgraded To “D”

July 27, 2010

The American Beverage Institute (ABI), a trade organization representing restaurants and specifically on-premise alcohol issues, is one of the few groups to confront MADD’s deceptive practices and neo-prohibitionist tendencies head on. Yesterday they released the following press release: The American Institute of Philanthropy’s (AIP) Charity Rating Guide & Watchdog Report has downgraded Mothers Against Drunk [...]

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Dogfish Head Bitches Brew Honors Miles Davis

June 5, 2010

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery today announced the release of Bitches Brew to commemorate the original release of the milestone jazz album, Bitches Brew, by jazz legend Miles Davis. The new beer by Dogfish Head is described as “a bold, dark beer that’s a fusion of three threads imperial stout and one thread honey beer with [...]

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New Hopyard Planted In Wisconsin

May 28, 2010

Matt Sweeny, from Fatty Matty Brewing, a homebrewing and craft beer website, announced yesterday that he’s started a small hop farm in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, named Simple Earth Hops. From the press release: Simple Earth Hops is a new 1/4 acre hopyard located at Greenspirit Farm CSA in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. The hopyard was founded with the [...]

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Brewing Achievement Awards 2010

April 9, 2010

Yesterday at the opening session of the Craft Brewers Conference in Chicago, the awards were given to “three successful members of the brewing community … for their dedication and service to the industry.” The three awards were as follows. The Brewers Association Recognition Award went to Larry Bell, Founder and Owner of Bell’s Brewery, Inc. [...]

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Craft Beer Numbers Up Again For 2009

March 8, 2010

The Brewers Association released the 2009 numbers for craft beer today, and I’m happy to report it’s good news again. While mainstream beer recently reported their largest negative sales period since the 1950s, craft beer in 2009 was up 7.2% by volume and 10.3% by dollars over the previous year. According to the press release, [...]

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Two American & Two Italian Brewers To Open Brewpub In NYC

February 20, 2010

Well, this is certainly big news in the craft beer community, news Russian River’s Vinnie and Natalie Cilurzo have been playing close to the vest. They’re teaming up with Dogfish Head and two Italian craft breweries to open a rooftop brewpub in New York City. Dogfish Head issued a press release this morning with the [...]

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Big News From Beer Wars

January 31, 2010

I confess I knew it was coming, but now that it’s here, I couldn’t be more thrilled for Anat Baron and her film, Beer Wars. Starting tomorrow, February 1, the film’s reach should extend beyond the well-insulated beer community. It will then be available to watch online, on your television or gaming console thanks to [...]

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I’m Virgin America, Fly Me & Drink Craft Beer

December 22, 2009

Though it’s been available on Virgin America for a little while now, 21st Amendment Brewery formally announced yesterday that their canned IPAwas being served on Virgin flights in the U.S. From the press release: Great craft beer on planes is finally reaching the blue skies, as the 21st Amendment Brewery is set to launch their [...]

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Marin Institute’s Latest Anti-Alcohol Report

October 22, 2009

The day after I left on vacation (I just spent 10 days in Asheville, NC) I received a frightening press release with the latest propaganda from my neighbors at the Marin Institute. This is the sort of thing I might expect on April 1 or even possibly Halloween, but they’ve taken things up yet another [...]

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Short Pour Film Festival

August 16, 2009

According to the press release, “The “First Ever” short-film festival on the subject of BEER will debut at the Monterey Beer Festival on June 5th, 2010, from 12:30pm to 5pm.” Do you love beer? Have you ever thought about being a filmmaker? Or perhaps you’re already a professional or even amateur filmmaker. If so, here’s [...]

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Craft Beer Up 11% In 1st Half Of 2008

July 29, 2008

The midyear numbers are out, and things couldn’t look better, which is especially wonderful under the circumstances. The Brewers Association released sales through the first half of 2008 and growth of craft beer by dollars is up a very healthy 11%. According to their press release, “The Brewers Association attributes this growth to a grassroots [...]

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Costco Beers

January 29, 2008

In related Costco news, Miller’s Brew Blog is reporting that the big box store chain will be creating three private label beer brands under the Kirkland name: a hefeweizen, amber ale and pale ale. The Gordon Biersch production brewery in San Jose, California — who also makes competitor Trader Joe’s private label beers — will [...]

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