Shockingly, I have interests outside of beer, despite what my internet browsing history, bank account statement, and refrigerator would attest to the contrary. One of the things in life I enjoy the most is videogames. I’m as likely to sit down to a few hours of zombie/alien/robot/gangster murdering as I am to dive into a [...]
Summer Beer Festival season is in full swing, as I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you. When you’re following as many breweries and/or blog sites on Facebook as I am, as well as a cursory glance toward the “Upcoming Events” in the middle of Ratebeer.com, you don’t need yet one more person to [...]
See also: Part 2, Part 3 If you’ve found yourself on The Hop Press, chances are you like appetizing, tasty beers. And if you’re American, statistically speaking, you probably like appetizing, tasty desserts. Now, cooking or grilling with beer is a common and fun practice, and a profitable enough venture to make whole cookbooks about them. [...]
Beer vs. Wine dinners have been around for some time now. Quite popular too. You’ve probably heard of one, been to one, know a place that regularly hosts them, or what have you. But it must be nice to, on occasion, put down our judging pens/noteboks and enjoy some hors d’oeuvres alongside our wine loving [...]
American Craft Beer Week was two weeks ago now, but goodness knows that doesn’t stop the hearts and minds of craft breweries this spring. It’s sunny and mild, and the trees have a certain leafy glow about them—yes, it’s festival time. And what better way to kick off a beer drinking season than with a [...]
So how was your ACBW? Still able to remember most of it? That’s good. Ironically, mine was only “American” in name only. Allow me to explain. This week, I had more Euro-inspired craft beer in 7 days than I have in the past 5 months. I started my journey by visiting Strange Brewing Co. for [...]
Just in case you haven’t been paying attention to any beer-related news on the interwebs, or you don’t befriend breweries on Facebook, then you might not have realized that American Craft Beer Week is next week. Snuck up on you like Christmas, right? Since I’m in the common position of being just one person, with [...]
To tell this story, we need to go back in time a few months… Sometime between September and October 2010, my employer handed out an annual bonus to all employees. With this newfound unbudgeted surge to my wallet, I did what most, if not all, beer geeks would have done: I got some beer I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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