Craig Hendry and Raise Your Pints have a problem. They’re Mississippi craft beer enthusiasts in a state that doesn’t embrace their enthusiasm. Homebrewing remains illegal. Craft beer may contain only up to 5% alcohol by weight. There’s still a division of wet counties and dry counties. Simply transporting your unopened six pack through a dry…
Recognizing the increasing local pride in the craft beer world, The Street magazine set out to determine what states can “legitimately call themselves ‘beer states.’” Using statistics provided by the Brewers Association and Beer Institute, they created a top 10 beer state list for 2011 based on four criteria: production, consumption, breweries and breweries per…
Day 2 of the 2011 Beer Bloggers Conference in Portland, OR, had a lot of highlights. The panels from industry bloggers and brewers on how bloggers can better interact with breweries gave plenty of useful ideas. Craig Hendry of Mississippi’s Raise Your Pints discussed Mississippi’s beer laws and their efforts to change them, making us…
The first official day of the 2011 Beer Bloggers Conference kicked off with some entertaining panel discussions. Julia Herz from the Brewers Association and CraftBeer.com started us off with a craft beer industry update. Beer writing legends Fred Eckhardt and John Foyston kept us laughing with great war stories, and Erica and Stephen of Brooklyn…
The term “pub crawl” has a tendency to conjure images of packs of young inebriates traveling from spot to spot drinking cheap “domestics” and shots of jagermeister. Fortunately, the crowd of 40 or so beer bloggers who gathered Thursday evening to unofficially kick off the 2011 Beer Bloggers Conference in Portland has far more respect…
Today I’m headed to the 2nd Annual Beer Bloggers Conference, held this year in Beervana – Portland, OR. Yeah, this is such a cool hobby to have. While Growler Fills is purely a labor of love, I’ll admit it’s got some good perks. Things get started this evening with a pre-conference pub crawl organized by…
What do a freelance writer, an attorney, a medical practice manager, a youth director and two grad students have in common? No, that’s not the introduction to a bad lawyer joke. It’s the makeup of our first Pop That Cap night and the common thread was a love of craft beer, a desire to experience…
John Fremont and his family of five (husband, wife, kid, kid, rescued dog) are on an adventure. Last month they set out from Bend, OR, to spend a year traveling around the United States in an RV. They’ve rented their house, said their temporary goodbyes, and set out for destinations mostly unknown. They’re excited, just…
The 2011 Beer Bloggers Conference is a week away and I’m super stoked to be headed there for some great networking, education and lots of great new beer experiences. On Friday night of the conference, after a trip to the hop fields and a dinner courtesy of the Oregon Brewers Guild, is an event called…
Tamarack Brewing Company in Lakeside, MT, turned four years old recently, marking several years of great food, great atmosphere and a frequent rotation of one-offs and seasonal brews. To help celebrate, Tamarack once again brewed up an anniversary amber, based off their popular Yard Sale Amber Ale. We stopped by last weekend during a couple…