Beer News

Announcing Atlanta Beer Week 2011!

Bigger. Better. Bolder.  Announcing Atlanta Beer Week 2011.  Atlanta’s beer scene is rapidly growing into one of the largest in the United States.  It’s time to have a beer week that reflects that.  The 2011 Beer Week will have more Continue Reading →

Uinta Brewing Gets New Logo

Uinta Brewing (Salt Lake City, Utah) has unveiled a new logo.   The brewery was founded in 1993, and now uses wind & solar power to run the brewery.  Currently, the brewery is in 22 states.

April 20, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT–Uinta (you-in-tah) Brewing Company proudly unveils their new logo, a symbol that closely represents the meaning behind the name “Uinta” and exemplifies character of the company, as well.

Uinta Brewing Company, established in 1993, was named after the Uinta Mountain Range, the only major East-West running mountain range in the continental United States. To celebrate the uniqueness of its namesake, the new logo depicts a mountain range circumscribed by a compass dial highlighting the East and West coordinates.

Port’s 5 Year Party

Port/Lost Abbey Brewing celebrates 5 years on May 14th, 2011.  The party will be held on site at the brewery in San Marcos, California.  Tickets are 5 dollars and split into 2 sessions for your drinking pleasure.

Come party with Port Brew height ing and The Lost Abbey and celebrate our 5th Anniversary on Saturday May 14, 2011.  Like last year we’ll be breaking the party into two sessions and limiting the number of guests so everyone can relax and enjoy themselves Items on tap for our daylong festivities include specialty kegs from the barrel archives, bottled beer releases, special barrelhouse tours, amazing street food from our in-house chefs, and live music from our two special guests –Kiera and the Lesbians and The Professors.

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Following our anniversary tradition, not only will we be loading all our taps with the latest and greatest of our beers, but we’ll be releasing Anniversary – the fifth release of our hoppy, strong pale ale from the Port Brewing side of the house.

Dogfish Head Notes For The Interested

A few tidbits about Dogfish Head from Sam Calagione:

– Currently, 600 bbl bright tanks & 2 new 600 barrel fermenters are being installed
– A new mill is also being added. Taking capacity from 700 barrels to 900 barrels.
– Dogfish will Continue Reading →

Fort Collins Super Collaboration 2011

American Craft Beer Week is May 16-22nd, 2011.  Special events are going on from coast to coast.  Something interesting coming out of Ft. Collins, Colorado – a collaboration.  Nine breweries local to the Ft. Collins area are coming together to create a “super” collaboration in honor of the week.

C.B. Potts, Coopersmith’s, Crooked Stave, Equinox, Fort Collins Brewing, Funkwerks, New Belgium, Odell Brewing, Pateros Creek are involved with the recipe creation.

“American Craft Beer Week (ACBW) is all about recognizing and celebrating craft brewers and craft beer culture,” said Doug Odell, founder of Odell Brewing Company. “This collaboration lets us do that and have fun making something special for the craft beer drinkers in our hometown community.”

There will be 2 simultaneous brews on April 22nd at Coopersmith & Equinox.  The beers will be blended together, and be poured at the breweries and throughout the city.

The Bruery Turns 3

The Bruery (Placienta, CA) is turning 3 in May.   Of course there is a party, here are the details.

The event is May 29th, 2011 at The Phoenix Club in Anaheim, CA. There are 2 sessions (A 10:30am – 2pm) Continue Reading →

Late Harvest’s New Look

Redhook Brewing is sprucing up their bottles & artwork in 2011.  Here’s a sneak peak at Late Harvest’s new 2011 image.  If I calculate correctly, this is the 3rd update in the last few years.

Late Harvest is a brown ale Continue Reading →