Beer Camp Across America Beer Styles Released

Here’s the most recent update about Sierra Nevada’s 2016 Beer Camp Across America.   Sierra Nevada Brewing Company released a new Beer Camp Across America 2016 video highlighting the six beer styles that drinkers can try in this year’s mixed 12-pack, on shelves in May. It’s the ultimate collaboration: 31 breweries together making 6 different…

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Malt’s Time to Shine?

The global hop shortage could mean that it is malt’s time to shine.  The shortage will drive further varietal exploration of beer’s other key ingredients, an American brewer has predicted, and boutique malts may be the new trend. Read the Full Story Here: Malt’s time to shine, says brewer

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Craft Brewing for Sale?

Craft Brewing for Sale? Is craft brewing for sale? You’d be hard-pressed to find a more divisive issue in the craft beer community than Big Beer’s shopping spree for small brewers. The list of small brewers selling themselves to big beer is growing. In fact, there has been more than one craft beer deal per…

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Why Oskar Blues chose craft beer over $1 billion

Oskar Blues chooses a different path than Ballast Point and some other craft brewers that have recently sold out to big beer. The craft brewer resists the lure of easy money and discovers that it can expand and thrive on its own terms. Photograph courtesy of Oskar Blues Brewing Read What Oskar Blues Founder Dale…

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Fuller’s , one of London’s oldest breweries, is trying to reinvent itself as a ‘craft’ beer maker

Fuller’s , a traditional English brewery known for its cask ales and one of my favorite breweries, is getting behind the booming popularity of US-style craft beers and craft ciders in Britain. Fuller’s is pushing its Frontier lager in trendy cans and says the distribution rights for US beer Sierra Nevada are helping to open…

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Emails show Georgia officials catered to distributors’ wishes over those of craft brewers – Atlanta Magazine

Georgia bureaucrats gutted Georgia’s craft brewing law. Now, brewers must change their tasting room policies or face suspension. Emails obtained under Open Records requests indicated the Georgia Department of Revenue officials showed political favoritism toward distributors. Read the Full Story in Atlanta Magazine – Emails: Georgia officials catered to distributors’ wishes over those of craft…

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