The Hoosier Beer Geek has pictures. Check out the line. Let’s just say showing up as late at 1:30 was not such a good idea.
Passion on display. Mostly. Unfortunately a little cold-hearted greediness. From a thread at Beer Advocate:
I drove from Minneapolis with a trunk full of Surly to enjoy and trade. Instead, I stood […]

Today a tree: the Simcoe hop. Tomorrow the forest: the rest of the hops in the world.
And not just because it seems that how you describe the aroma of Simcoe determines if you drink/smell beer like a man or like a woman.
Simcoe was only released to the brewing world in 2000 and really is a […]

InBev has given up moving Hoegaarden out of the city of the same name, the place that it originated.
As of June 1 all the Hoegaarden beer will be brewed there. Much different than in 2006, when InBev announced it would move production to Jupille.
Seems that didn’t work out so well. By 2007 production was a […]

Yesterday I mentioned Luke Nicholas’ Twitter feed.
(What’s Twitter? This is a good way to found out.)
Luke, a New Zealander who brews Epic Ale, landed in San Francisco on Thursday and I can’t count how many beers he’s had since. As I type he’s working his way through the lineup at Russian River Brewing in Sonoma. […]

Meantime Brewing Company in London has signed a £5m deal with the Greenwich Foundation to excavate, renovate and recommence brewing at the Old Royal Naval College.
“London is the home of India Pale Ale, Porter and Stout but – in time honored British tradition – we have allowed this rich heritage to be forgotten,” Meantime brewmaster […]

Let’s start with what the brewer has to say: Matt Brophy of Flying Dog Ales talks about the intent behind the seasonal Garde Dog, as well as the way it tastes to him.
Please notice that near the end he says, “We put our own spin on it.”
Not to duck Christopher’s call for less description/background and […]

You are bound to see some April Fool’s posts today in the beer blogosphere, but the news that New Belgium Brewing in Colorado almost certainly will be packaging Fat Tire in cans is real.
I simply missed the story in the The Fort Collins Coloradoan until now.
Fat Tire is the only one of New Belgium’s brews […]

So would you pair Palo Santo Marron (shortened to Palo Santo for the rest of this post), the latest release from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, with popcorn?
Probably not, but it is tempting simply because the beer comes with a movie. Dogfish Head has enclosed “Take Time” with the first 10,000 four-packs of Palo Santo with […]

Following up on the notion put forth last week by Ron Jeffries about “beer moments” and echoed by Andrew Mason take a look at Lew Bryson’s post about “discovering” Orval.
This particular Orval was just five weeks past bottling (at the monastery pictured to the right). Given that Orval undergoes refermentation in the bottle it might […]

And what I failed to mention yesterday about Green Lakes Organic Ale is that it poured with a billowing head that left elegant lacing on the sides of the glass. That certainly added to an impression the beer was fresh and alive.
I thought of this yesterday evening while I was reading “Grape vs. Grain,” a […]