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Rooting for the Home Team: “The Great COntenders”

Colorado is, objectively, a cool place to live.  I don’t mean to go so far as to say it’s better than any particular place, or that it’s the best place for (fill in the blank).  But unless you’re a fun hater who just can’t stand outdoorsy things, sports, crisp air, artisnal drinks of all kinds, [...]

Growing Up, Growing Out

There is a beer circle of life, and that circle begins with breweries making money.  Sure there are failing microbreweries and starving local-only brewers driven by their love of making flavorful, provocative, and sometimes uncatagorizably insane beers, but ultimately commercial beer brewing is a business, and businesses need to make money. I would never argue [...]

Corporate Bullying, Lawsuits, Buyouts, and Beer: A Retrospective of March 2011

March was depressing enough in the craft beer world, let alone the real one.  Bell’s slammed a homebrew shop with a cease and desist, one microbrewery told another to rename its bestseller, Flying Dog Brewery sued Michigan, and a new piece of beer legislation moved forward in the Colorado legislature that is gaining ire from [...]

How Big is “Small”?

Ever since the Brewers Association decided to update their definition of a “small” craft brewery earlier this week, there has been much hubbub and harrumphing about what this means to the craft beer scene in terms of statistics inflation, market share, money (always important), and particularly the impact Boston Beer Company has on both the craft [...]