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Remembering Lew Cady 12 Aug 2013 | 08:57 am
Lew Cady passed away Sunday morning, August 4, surrounded by his wife and daughters, after a two-month hospital stay and several months of health trouble. He was 76. Though not as renowned or instant...
BodeBrown Beer Train 14 Jun 2013 | 08:54 pm
I was in the second edition of BodeBrown Beer Train (Curitiba / Morretes), with special guest Greg Koch, (CEO and Co-founder of Stone Brewing).The Beer Train 2013 was one of the events organized by Bo...
Breweries-In-Planning Barred from South Denver Beer Fest 29 Apr 2013 | 10:46 pm
This coming weekend (May 4-5), Denverites will descend upon the southern burb of Littleton, CO for the inaugural South Denver Beer Fest, with over 60 breweries, both local and national (and a couple o...
2013 Craft Brewers’ Conference 18 Apr 2013 | 07:25 pm
This year’s Craft Brewers Conference, held in Washington, D.C.’s convention center from March 26-29, was the largest ever held. Attendance was 6,400, about a third higher than last year’s Craft Brewe...
DSTILL: A Celebration of American Craft Distilling 24 Mar 2013 | 06:17 am
I feel a small amount of guilt in writing this, the second post in a row not really about beer. However, it needs to be said: craft spirits is blowing up, son! Look, we’re all beer nerds here; you d...
Mazer Cup: The GABF of Mead 11 Mar 2013 | 03:23 am
So, a long while ago I wrote here about Mead, and its comeback, and its relevance to craft beer. Well, I’m back writing about it again. I love the stuff, admittedly. And while I have only seen 2 no...
How To Improve The Big Beers, Belgians, & Barleywines Fest 26 Jan 2013 | 02:23 am
Earlier this month I attended THE Big Beers, Belgians, & Barlywines Fest in Vail, Colorado. I emphasized the ‘THE’ because, in short, it oozes as much (potentially more) awesomesauce than GABF. Sa...
Class of ’88: Deschutes and Friends Year-Long Collaboration 7 Jan 2013 | 01:46 am
photo credit to GABF.com John McClane drops Hans Gruber off the top of Nakatomi Plaza, U2 charmed our hearts and won a grammy, and gas was 91¢ a gallon. The year is 1988, and America had just begun ...
Colorado’s 10 Weirdest Beers of 2012 31 Dec 2012 | 07:09 am
Ah, late-December. That time of season for year-end reviews and Top Ten lists. But while some beer-writers decided to go with a straight-forward Top Ten Beers list, I decided to take a stranger road...
A Polite Rebuttal to the “Craft vs. Crafty” Press Release 16 Dec 2012 | 12:15 am
So, if you follow any of your favorite local breweries on Twitter or Facebook, or you regularly check in on the Brewer’s Association (or their other page CraftBeer.com), you have no doubt heard by now...