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Happy Saturday beer enthusiasts.  I wanted to share a great article provided to us from Huffington Post.  While Sam Adams has bridged a fine line between micro and macro over the past decade, we ca…

    Sierra Nevada Brewing and Boulevard Brewing announced this week that it would release Terra Incognita to the general public for the first time in June. On Friday, the companies announ…

After weeks of painstakingly thorough research and dedicating my body to the noble profession of journalism by acting as my own guinea pig, I have come to the following conclusion: Beer is awesome.

(Boston, MA) – To continue the successful momentum of its small business microlending and business mentoring efforts, The Boston Beer Company announces the expansion of its Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream program. Key objectives in 2013 include providing an additional $1 million in microloans to approximately 100 new small businesses owners, inviting Samuel Adams drinkers to participate in the program, and increasing Brewing the American Dream’s coaching and mentoring activities for small businesses throughout the country.

    From our traditional brewing techniques to our close-to-home ingredients, head brewer Damian McConn talks about what makes the award-winning Summit Pilsener so unique. via YouTube | S…

During a special tasting Tuesday, Martin House poured pints of the yet-unreleased light ale, Daybreak, and while most likely won’t wash down their Post Toasties with the so-called breakfast ale, ma…

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(and on my birthday too! @#$$#@!!)

 Japanese brewery created a beer using ingredients from elephant dung and it sold out within minutes of going on sale in the country.

The beer, which is called Un, Kono Kuro, is made using coffee beans that have passed through an elephant.

The Sankt Gallen Brewery called the beer a ‘chocolate stout’, despite it not containing any chocolate. The coffee beans used in the beer come from elephants at Thailand’s Golden Triangle Elephant Foundation, which cost over US$100 per 35 grams. The beans are so expensive as 33kgs of beans in the mouth yields 1kg of useable coffee beans.

The beans are definitely a candidate for one of the top 10 weirdest beer ingredients.

What is the next big thing in the beer industry? Our Rex Moore asked that question at the recent 2013 Craft Brewers Conference in Washington, D.C., and found a wide range of answers. In the last of this series, we hear from New Belgium Brewing’s Kim Jordan, and Bill Butcher of Port City Brewing.

Once widely mocked, US beer is now popular globally with hipsters and connoisseurs alike. Why is the world buying in to the American brewing revolution?

What a brew! A Scottish brew master, his Tunisian wife and two Yanks operate a boutique brewery. They produce several hundred bottles a month and plan more.

From the mound of peeling matzah box empties, it looked like a massive Passover seder was brewing. Instead, Ambacht Brewery co-owner Tom Kramer was tossing the discarded boxes to the brewery floor after adding crushed up matzoh to a bubbling mash of soon-to-be Matzobraü Beer.

At the heart of the ‘No Bollocks 2013’ campaign is a series of TV spots comprised entirely of still photo images intended to cut through the clutter of expensive, elaborate, overly produced advertisements typical of the beer category. Instead of using the professional actors or beautiful models normally featured in beer ads, the spots feature ordinary people drinking at real parties having a real good time (or a real bad time in some cases). The creative takes on traditional beer advertising gimmicks that imply that hand crafted workmanship and hand selected ingredients are unique to certain beers and that parties are made abundantly more fun with those same beers.