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The winners of Goose Island Beer Co.’s annual Proprietor’s Day lottery descended upon Fulton Street today for the chance to purchase the first bottles of the brewery's Chicago-only variant. This year’s Proprietor’s Bourbon County Brand Stout is fashioned after Bananas Foster, and brewed with bananas, roasted almonds and cassia bark. If you weren’t able to
"The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you." ― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle If you want to get a brewer or beer distributor misty-eyed and nostalgic, ply him or
Malt is one of the four basic ingredients in beer. But before it ends up in the brewer’s mash tun, it spent time at a malt house, where it went through a conversion from raw harvested barley into malt. And before it arrived at the malt house, it had to survive being grown, maturing
The World Beer Festival Columbia returns to Columbia, South Carolina on Saturday, February 18. Join us at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds to sample from more than 250 beers and ciders. As a resident of South Carolina for more than a decade, I’ve been in the thick of the state’s evolution from that of a desert
A trademark dispute landed the gypsy brewer on Bryan O’Neal’s doorstep. The gypsy brewer in question was Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, the founder of Evil Twin Brewing and perhaps the world’s most famous traveling brewer. Jarnit-Bjergsø is accustomed to jet-setting all over the globe, stopping at breweries in places like Brazil or Italy only long enough to