Rick Lyke News Today

Welcome to This Week in Rauchbier for April 1, 2024.

I’m old enough to have a firm grasp on the former monoculture of beer. I’m also old enough to have my breath taken away by the pace of today’s change in the world of beer. Not too long ago beer preferences were much like car preferences, built around some point where loyalty to a brand

There is something surreal about Sunday morning at the Denver airport after four days of the Great American Beer Festival. The bright, stark light of the Colorado plains has replaced the muted hues of the festival interior. Gone are the roars of the crowds, the beer talks, the presentations, replaced by the dampened tones of

The final phase of my Charlotte weekend occurred after the Pints for Prostates first annual board meeting. The Pints for Prostates' board meeting went for quite some time as the board worked through some of the guiding principles of the organization and the future plans. It was some heavy lifting by a group of passionate

Sometimes everything works out so well you just stand there grinning. Such was the case with the first Denver Rare Beer Tasting held at the Wynkoop Brewery during Great American Beer Festival week. Twenty-four breweries each presented one rare beer to the 450 lucky ticket holders. There were about 60 brewery reps on hand to

Recently, Rick Lyke invited me to join the board of directors for Pints for Prostates, a charity I've been fundraising for the past couple of years. A yes came quite easily and our first board meeting was this Saturday in Charlotte. You've got to love a board where the pre-meeting is scheduled in a place

The Macon Beer Fest, an annual event hosted by the Rotary Club of Downtown Macon, has broken a record for most prostate cancer screenings at a single Pints for Prostates event, the festival announced Thursday.

DENVER, CO – Pints for Prostates is sponsoring a free health screening on Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside the McNichols Civic Center Building at 144 W. Colfax Ave. in conjunction with the 14th edition of the Denver Rare Beer Tasting. Pints for Prostates has partnered with the Prostate Conditions Education Council on the

DENVER, CO – Tickets for the 14th edition of the Denver Rare Beer Tasting go on sale Father’s Day, June 18th at Noon (MT). The list of 64 of America’s leading craft breweries that have committed to pour at the Sept. 22nd event to raise funds for Pints for Prostates was released today. The prostate

Eric Mower Shifts Role to Executive Chairman, Remaining Active with CompanySYRACUSE, NY / ACCESSWIRE / January 27, 2023 / Mower, one of the leading independent marketing communications agencies in the