Flying Dog Ales is reprising its Open Source Beer Project, but in the spirit of Web 2.0 hopes to make the 2008 version better than 2007.
Thus the following challenge:
“We are looking to expand the Open Source Beer Project into the latest version 1.1 or 2.0. Seeing this is open source we thought we would solicit […]

Perhaps you saw this kind of problem when taking tests in your youth. Pick the one of each four that is least like the others.
- Geary’s Pale Ale, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Magic Hat #9, Fuller’s London Pride.
- New Belgium Blue Paddle Pilsener, Victory Prima Pils, Alaskan Stout, Miller High Life.
- Blue Moon White, Allagash […]

Hey, nobody asked us if we wanted lemon.
We had a couple of sample-size servings yesterday when we stopped for just a few minutes at Granville Island Brewing in Vancouver. (We were much more interested in exploring the market area.)
And — because I’m paying attention to all things related to wheat beers these days — I’d […]

Seattle deserves to be in any discussion about the nation’s best beer drinking cities, but we’re not going there again.
Our recent brief stay in the region wasn’t about beer — in stark contrast, for instance, to 1995 when we visited dozens of places while working on the “The Beer Lovers Guide,” sometimes feeling frantic but […]

Let’s start with good news from Yakima. Here’s one of several new hopyards we saw Sunday and Monday. You can see why farmers point out it takes more than a year to make a hop field productive. Hops are well up the strings in nearby fields.
A day and a half driving through one of the […]

Peek behind the curtain and you’ll see Terminal Gravity Brewing in Northeast Oregon is bursting at its micro-seems, but you aren’t required to look. The pleasure here is, well, right here.
Every seat inside the pub-restaurant was taken within half an hour after it opened Saturday, although that only amounted to about two score customers. When […]

Andy Crouch offers a excellent warts-included report from SAVOR: An American Craft Beer and Food Experience, expressing concern about “the growing snobbery of beer” and using the occasion to post his “Does Beer Really Want To Become Like Wine?” column from Beer Advocate magazine.
I’m already on record with New Beer Rule #7 — “beer is […]

The job doesn’t look exactly like blogging, and you can be pretty sure that when Beck’s owner InBev suggests its digital columnist should be offbeat that means topics only broadly related to beer may be prominent, but here’s the press release and you can decide:
Greener pastures await avid writers! Beck’s, one of InBev’s Global brands […]

No imported beers for us in the next year and change.
Oh, we’ll drink Bavarian beer . . . when we are in Germany. And beers brewed in West Flanders . . . when we are in West Flanders. Beers from upstate New York? You guessed it.
We’ll be drinking local. That means the local water, beer […]

New Belgium Brewing has awarded a $20,000 grant to a Colorado State graduate student to further her research on growing organic hops in Colorado.
Odell Brewing — located in Fort Collins like New Belgium and CSU — has been supporting Ali Hamm’s work for several years.
Hamm’s plan is to figure out what kinds of hops grow […]