UPDATE: Sam Adam’s Sample B

A couple of days ago, the 2011 Sam Adam’s Beer Lover’s Choice sample beers were revealed.  Looks like “Sample B” was a  “Maple Wood Porter.  Brewed w/ Maple syrup & aged w/ oak staves.”

Updated, the samples look like this:

Sample A: Continue Reading →

Sour. Collaborative. Here.

Cigar City Brewing & The Bruery recently collaborated.  The result –  Marrón Acidifié.  Here sooner than expected. (A good thing.)

What You Need To Know:
In 2008, both Cigar City Brewing and The Bruery opened their doors.  In 2009, Joe Redner Continue Reading →

Bell’s Brewing Hits Cans In 2012

As part of Bell’s Brewing’s ongoing expansion, the brewery announced they are installing a canning line at the Comstock facility.

A 500 can per minute canning line will be active by Spring, 2012.  That’s almost double the speed of the bottling Continue Reading →

RIP Brew Masters. Beer Gets Chippy

Beer is awfully dramatic lately.  Label lawsuits, name lawsuits, beer buying other beer, and the beer geeks lament. Fine.  Well over a month ago, a rumor of the untimely demise of Brew Masters on Discovery Channel featuring Dogfish Head was Continue Reading →

Rare Breckenridge “Twenty” Released Saturday

Breckenridge Brewing celebrates 20 years of brewing this Saturday, April 2nd.  In honor of 2 decades of hard work, the brewery will be releasing 180 commemorative bottles of “Twenty” at Breckenridge’s tasting room in Denver, Colorado.

About “Twenty”
Twenty has already made limited appearances on draft.  It’s a Scottish ale aged in Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey barrels.  180 bottles have been corked & caged by the brewery.  Bottles will be sold first come, first serve at 10 am on Saturday 4/2/11.  Bottles are $20 each, 2 bottle limit.  Trade bait anyone?

Breckenridge Brewery was founded in 1990 in Breckenridge, Colorado. In the past two decades Breckenridge Brewery has grown from a small 3,000-barrels-a-year brewpub to one of the most successful craft beer companies in the nation. It now handcrafts over 30,000 barrels of fresh beer annually and owns and operates 5 pubs in the state of Colorado.

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Great Divide Leaves Markets

Great Divide Brewing is growing, much like the rest of the beer community in the United States.  It’s a good thing! But….As we have seen recently with the Dogfish Head news, and acquisition of Goose Island by InBev, because you are growing, Continue Reading →