Brewing News
Help the Wynkoop celebrate a beery hoppy birthday
October 16, 2008 - Twenty years ago this month, a group of intrepid entrepreneurs opened Denver's first brewpub in LoDo, which had just become an official historic district that year, before the city even had a major-league baseball team, much less a Coors Field that would rise to the northeast of the old warehouse...
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Conspicuous Consumption - People's Poll
October 16, 2008 - BEST NEW RESTAURANT Maria's Comida 11411 Joseph Campau, Hamtramck; 313-733-8406 Mexican food on Hamtramck's Polish strip? It might have sounded odd a decade ago, but among our readers it has a serious following.
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DEDRICK: Colorado tops field at Great American Beer Festival
October 15, 2008 - Colorado brews won 12 gold medals at the Great American Beer Festival, the most of any state.
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Magazine to feature Baker City's charm
October 15, 2008 - Cottage Living magazine, a national publication with a circulation of more than 1 million, is featuring Baker Citys authentic character and architecture in an upcoming issue.
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Greensboro brewery expands
October 15, 2008 - GREENSBORO Just a year after expanding its Greensboro brewery to distribute beer in grocery stores and restaurants, Natty Greene's is growing again.
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ON DETROIT.METROMIX.COM: D-scene: Oct. 15-21
October 15, 2008 - The New Dance Show at CPop, the History of House at the Whitney, cheers to five years of at the Detroit Beer Co. and much more moonlight delight.
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Florida beers shine on Bay State
October 15, 2008 - The Beer Nut If Saint Somewhere beers are a good example of what is being brewed in the Sunshine State, I want more of them up here in Massachusetts now.
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Northwest Oktoberfest
October 15, 2008 - The spirit of Oktoberfest has thrived since it was conceived as a celebration for a couple of newlywed Bavarian royals back in 1810. Though it originated in Germany, it's now spread worldwide as a drunken custom that people of all nationalities can really get behind.
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Texas Wants Beer!
October 15, 2008 - Oktoberfest in Fredericksburg starts with a free glass of Shiner "Helles," a crisp, golden-colored Czech-style pilsner. When the gates to Fredericksburg's Marktplatz open on this Friday evening at six, more than 100 people get in line in front of the keg stand where Shiner brewmaster Jimmy Mauric an ...
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Bobs Weather Forecast - 10-14-08 & The Next 5 Days
October 14, 2008 - The "Hands on Georgia" campaign expects up to 30,000 volunteers to pitch in and help. more » An afternoon fire destroys the Moose Lodge in Phenix City.
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What's on Tap: Great American Beer Festival winners
October 14, 2008 - THE 27TH ANNUAL Great American Beer Festival which drew more than 400 brewers with almost 2,000 different beers to Denver ended this past Saturday.
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Delaware companies make the Inc. 5000 list
October 13, 2008 - Twenty-one Delaware companies made the Inc. 5000 list of Americas fastest-growing private companies. The magazines online arm last year expanded the list beyond 500 companies.
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Wisconsin beers win at Great American Beer Festival 2008
October 13, 2008 - Capital Brewery of Middleton won a gold medal for its Autumnal Fire in the German-style Strong Bock category. Among the Scottish-Style Ales, the Wisconsin Dells Brewing Company brought home a silver medal for Dells Chief Amber Ale. Additionally, the Great Dane Pub ' Brewery captured a bronze medal for its 1999 vintage of Old Scratch Barley Wine in the old or strong ale category.
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Chattanooga: Big River hits 15 Early arrival at Riverfront finds success
October 12, 2008 - Big River Grille & Brewing Works has been a downtown Chattanooga fixture since 1993, one of the earliest restaurants to invest in the citys riverfront entertainment area that was just starting to become a reality 15 years ago.
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The Good Life: Welcome to a real Main Street
October 12, 2008 - PLACERVILLE We were staring through the locked saloon doors at an empty room. Me, my friend Jack, and three people fresh off their motorcycles we were all bummed. Scenes from Placerville, from above left: Roger Hopkins of Fair Oaks looks at a vintage photo in a Main Street window; the Hangman's Tree Tavern in its heyday (with dangling dummy); Hopkins and friend Colleen Gast explore ...
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Slugger Field restaurants shut down
October 12, 2008 - The two restaurants at Louisville Slugger Field, Browning's Brewery and Park Place on Main, were to go out of business after they closed their doors last night.
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Steves Friday Forecast
October 10, 2008 - Total Systems in Columbus held a job fair Thursday looking for potential workers. The company is hiring one hundred workers in the call center for customer service positions.
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El Fuego fires up with Calif.-style Mexican
October 10, 2008 - The burritos, tacos and quesadillas are finally rolling out at the new location of El Fuego (2104 Chestnut St., 215-751-1435), which opened about 10 weeks behind schedule because of assorted construction delays.
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Joe Sixpack: From Munich, ideas well worth stealing
October 10, 2008 - ROLLING DOWN Maximillianstrasse in downtown Munich last week aboard a tram stocked with cases of Paulaner Hefe-weizen, a buffet of fatty Bavarian delicacies, an accordion player and a quartet of women in cleavage-enhancing dirndl dresses, my beer-drinking pal, Mark, nudged me and marveled:
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Phoenixville wins big on Hot List
October 10, 2008 - PHOENIXVILLE The popular votes have been collected and tallied, and: Phoenixville wins, big time! Again. For the second year in a row, Borough retailers captured...
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Table Talk: El Fuego fires up with Calif.-style Mexican
October 09, 2008 - The burritos, tacos and quesadillas are finally rolling out at the new location of El Fuego (2104 Chestnut St., 215-751-1435), which opened about 10 weeks behind schedule because of assorted construction delays.
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TwoMan Gentlemen Band to swing by brewpub
October 09, 2008 - REHOBOTH BEACH -- What do you call a modern-day vaudeville duo from New York City that prominently features kazoos in its music? The Two Man Gentlemen Band.
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Downtown Hobart home to region's new brewpub
October 09, 2008 - Downtown Hobart soon will be home to the newest brewpub in Northwest Indiana. Brickworks Brewing Co. Inc., which will be located in the former Elinor's building at 530 E. Third St., is planning a winter opening.
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Sponsored by:
October 09, 2008 - Cape IR SOC: Funky Australian jam band frontman Jay Hoad, above, has been shaking up the local music scene for well over a year now.
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Something's brewing
October 08, 2008 - In the basement of David Anderson's Northglenn home, not far from the shelves full of board games and the weightlifting set, an oversized glass keg has been placed on a work bench, hidden from light by a dark plastic trash bag.
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Beerfest: Local brewers gear up for this week's Great American Beer Festivalf
October 08, 2008 - One-ounce samples, three days, more than 400 breweries, 1,900 brews and more than 46,000 people. Now that's a party. It's time once again for the Great American Beer Festival, hosted by the Boulder-based Brewers Association.
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Huske Hardware ready to brew again
October 08, 2008 - Soon locally brewed beers will again flow through the taps at Huske Hardware House Restaurant & Brewery in downtown Fayetteville.
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Reviving the Spirits
October 08, 2008 - Still matters run deep: Two brothers with roots in brewpubs are part of a fomenting trend in microdistilling.
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San Leandro craft brewery sold to Triple Rock
October 07, 2008 - Drake's, a pioneering craft brewery in San Leandro, sold to Triple Rock owner John Martin and a business partner.
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Stock market gyrates as economic fears grow
October 07, 2008 - It was the first full day of business in the post-bailout economy, and it looked as though things hadn't been fixed.
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Man found seriously hurt on Swift Street
October 07, 2008 - A 52-year-old man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after he was found unconscious on Swift Street on Saturday night.
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What's on Tap: Maredsous 10
October 07, 2008 - TODAY IS an anniversary of sorts. I started this column in the Oakland Tribune 19 years ago. One of the first beers I wrote about was Red Tail Ale from Mendocino Brewing.
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5 Responses to Some Thoughts on the New Czech Brewery Kocour
October 06, 2008 - On Monday, Pivovarský dm in Prague hosted a tasting of six beers from Pivovar Kocour, the Czech Republics newest brewery, with draft versions of Kocours 12° pale lager, English pale ale, Scottish ale, American IPA, V3 Rauchbier , and Stout.
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Debate brewing between local beer brands, state law
October 06, 2008 - Coast Brewing Co.s HopArt IPA flows freely from the tap at Evo Pizzeria in North Charlestons historic downtown district. Its our biggest seller, for sure, said Brendan Sweeny, the restaurants general manager.
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Recipe for success; Tonya Cornett, who won a prestigious award for Bend Brewing Company, and other women are making ...
October 05, 2008 - Tonya Cornett, brewmaster for Bend Brewing Company, usually doesnt do her hair in the morning before going to work. Starting at 7 a. m., Cornett spends the day upstairs at BBC, where she moves 120-pound kegs, hauls 55-pound bags of grain, drags hoses of liquid and makes award-winning beer for the downtown Bend brewery.
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Nightlife: Bars on the syllabus
October 03, 2008 - With college back in session, we give returning students a crash course on 10 college bars that matter.
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Golden Eagle to sell Barrio Brewing kegs
October 03, 2008 - Golden Eagle Distributors Inc. on Thursday announced an agreement to distribute four beers of local Barrio Brewing Co.
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Bar crawls around the world are worth a shot
October 03, 2008 - From New York and Disney World to Bollywood and Beirut, our favorite places to drink in the culture.
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Sebastopol - artsy axis of liberalism
October 03, 2008 - Some people view left-leaning, free-thinking Sebastopol as part of an axis of liberalism that extends from this west Sonoma County town to Berkeley and Santa Cruz. Though Sebastopol garnered some attention a few years back when it had a Green Party majority...
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DEDRICK: Crowd brewing for Great American Beer Fest
October 01, 2008 - How popular is the Great American Beer Festival? Consider that ingredient shortages have raised prices at taverns and liquor stores, and the economy hasn't been this spooky since Billy Beer was readily available. But for the second year in a row, the event sold out a couple of weeks before doors open.
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Brewfest celebrated in New Hartford
October 01, 2008 - NEW HARTFORD - Hundreds of people drank beer, listened to a band, and socialized at the third annual Brewer's Fest at Ski Sundown on Saturday evening.
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The curtain rises on Cambridge House
October 01, 2008 - Every theatrical opening is fraught with tension. There's always a rip somewhere in the backdrop, or the lead's shoes don't quite match, or the trumpet player is stuck in traffic. As any stage manager will tell you, you can either stall until the theater's empty or put on the darn show already. "Nobody'll notice that stuff," he'll say. "Now get out there, the curtain's goin' up!"
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I had a beer with the president of the Czech Republic...
September 30, 2008 - Karl Ockert phoned me yesterday about quitting time and said the president of the Czech Republic was on his way to BridgePort and I should show up...thanks, Karl, for a fun story and the greatest excuse ever: "sorry I'm late...
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What's on Tap: Fuller's ESB
September 30, 2008 - GO INTO a brewpub almost anywhere in America and there's almost certainly a beer on the list called "ESB." The initials stand for Extra Special Bitter, and every one of those beers are brewed with one beer in mind: Fuller's ESB, the champion strong ale from the historic London brewery Fuller Smith
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Harmonys Morning Weather 09-29-08
September 29, 2008 - Total Systems in Columbus held a job fair Thursday looking for potential workers. The company is hiring one hundred workers in the call center for customer service positions.
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Fest taps into microbrews' popularity
September 28, 2008 - Dan Culver of Portland sipped from a pint of beer and raved about the different varieties at Septembeerfest, a microbrewery celebration held Sagurday at the Benton County Fairgrounds.
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Bobs Weather Forecast 9-27-08 & The Next 5 Days
September 27, 2008 - Total Systems in Columbus held a job fair Thursday looking for potential workers. The company is hiring one hundred workers in the call center for customer service positions.
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Buy&sell
September 27, 2008 - Sean Lilly Wilson, prime mover in the "Pop the Cap" campaign to legalize high-alcohol beer in North Carolina, has a name for the brewpub he wants to open in Durham -- "Fullsteam Brewery" -- but he's still looking for a place to bu
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New and old enrich Denver as it marks 150 years
September 26, 2008 - DENVER This city beside the Rocky Mountains is more than a fleeting spot of skyline as you make your way west across Interstate 70 from the airport to Colorado's snow-laden ski resorts.
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Joe Sixpack: Oktoberfest beer goes golden
September 26, 2008 - A COUPLE of years ago at the World Beer Cup in Seattle, a contingent of judges from Germany found themselves scratching their heads at the evaluation guidelines for their country's most revered quaff, Oktoberfestbier.
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