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Almost no one talks bad about Pliny the Elder. Russian River Brewing Co.’s acclaimed double India pale ale has received almost perfect scores at popular beer reviewing sites, like RateBeer.com and BeerAdvocate.com. Gushing fans, jabbing at their keyboards with the beloved hop bomb on their desks, have even gone so far as to call this
Why do you drink craft beer? Back when I started drinking beer, in 1978, things were simple: I drank beer. Cold beer, free beer, dark beer, cream ale, even malt liquor, I grabbed it and loved it. Then I had my epiphany in 1981 with a flip-top bottle of German pilsner, and realized that I
Two California breweries see wine country as fertile ground for future beer operations. Last week, Stone Brewing and Fieldwork Brewing Co. each announced plans to open locations in Napa. Escondido-based Stone will renovate a downtown building and open a taproom in 2017, and Berkeley-based Fieldwork plans to open a tasting room in the Oxbow Public
Tickets are now available for the 12th annual World Beer Festival Raleigh, held at the N.C. State Fairgrounds on Saturday, April 1. For years, barbecue was the first culinary item people might have considered when thinking of North Carolina, but that has changed. Now one of the fastest growing states in the beer industry, the
Picture the scene: A bunch of co-workers from Saugatuck Brewing go out for a night in their town about 40 miles southwest of Grand Rapids, Michigan. They’re decently stoked about the selection of beer at the bars they patronize, but there’s one thing that ruins it at every stop: bartenders are pouring their drinks into