Chicago Gears Up For 7th Annual Craft Beer Week

For eleven glorious days, the city of Chicago is one giant playground for craft beer drinkers. The seventh annual Chicago Craft Beer Week takes place from May 19th-29th and will feature about 400 different events in 100 different venues.

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Event Preview | Quad Cities Craft Beer Fest

For craft beer drinkers, the arrival of summer means one thing: beer festival season.

It seems no matter where you go across the country on any given weekend, in … Read More

PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | May 11th, 2016

Hey y’all ! It’s almost Friday the 13th!

All you people who imitate the famous “killer theme” by going “Ch Ch Ch Ch, Ha Ha Ha,” you’re doing it wrong. … Read More

Event Recap | 2016 Chicago Beer Classic

Those in attendance at Saturday’s 2016 Chicago Beer Classic should have a greater appreciation for Chicago Bears’ kicker Robbie Gould. The swirling winds created some unique challenges for the festival held at Soldier Field. The breweries struggling to keep their signs from falling down and SWAG from blowing all over the field, could only imagine what it’s like to kick a 50-yard field goal in those same conditions.

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Ultimate 6er | Washington Collaboration Beers

The collaborative spirit of the craft beer industry has long been one of my favorite topics to cover, so I was ecstatic to learn about the first-ever Washington Beer Collaboration Festival put on by the Washington Beer Commission. The two-day festival featured 25 collaboration beers from 50 different Washington breweries and celebrated the collaborative and creative culture among Washington brewers. I attended the inaugural festival on a sunny Saturday afternoon and sampled about half of these unique brews. Read on for some of my favorite concoctions from this innovative festival.

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Event Preview | Science on Tap

Science is the cornerstone to brewing beer. Although many of our craft beer events are centered around performers or special beer releases, it’s nice to see these gatherings celebrating the study of our favorite beverages. That’s the goal of “Science on Tap,” an outdoor festival for educating beer novices and aficionados alike on beer chemistry. And there’s no better place to have this event than at the heart of Virginia’s largest craft beer community, our capital Richmond. Read More

PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | May 4th, 2016

TICKET ALERT: Avery’s Sour Fest tix go on sale this week! Don’t sleep on this; they sell out in just minutes!

The first week of May is pretty much a … Read More

2016 Chicago Beer Classic’s Pour List

Chicago’s largest beer festival always brings out a great variety of breweries and their beers. Once called the American Beer Classic, the Chicago Beer Classic, put on by Red Frog Events, features nearly 100 breweries. While many are from the Chicagoland area, breweries in attendance will range from both the West and East coasts and everything inbetween. Read More

The Brewtography Project Kickstarter Launches with Host of Events

Colorado breweries are joining together this month to support Discovering Colorado Breweries, a photographic essay about the craft beer industry captured through the lens of one man’s camera, The Brewtography … Read More

PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | April 27th, 2016

Perrin Brewing Launches in Colorado, tons of beer releases, a beer dinner or two, a bRUNch session, BrüFrou, firkins, a Ratio Session with Cursive, Big Choice and City Star celebrate their … Read More

Event Preview | Rocktown Beer & Music Festival Spring 2016 Edition

Going to a beer festival is a major step for most craft beer fans who are looking to fully immerse themselves into the culture. Where the booze is flowing and the music … Read More

St. Charles, Mo. Debuts First Ever Craft Beer Week

According to the legends passed down from beer drinker to beer drinker, somebody somewhere supposedly once called St. Charles County a “craft beer desert.” Now I don’t know who that … Read More

SweetWater 420 Fest | Mouthwatering Beer and Cheese Pairings

The 3-day long SweetWater 420 Festival in Atlanta has become a celebration of music, Mother Earth and Georgia’s largest brewery.

Tucked in between the two larger music stages, you’ll find the SweetWater Experience tent, where beer education — and special one-offs that you often won’t taste anywhere else – live. Home brew sessions, visits from hop farmers, and Q&As with SweetWater Co-Founder and Chairman Freddy Bensch are featured, but the most popular event each year is the beer and cheese pairing.

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Ratio + Crooked Stave + PorchDrinking TOMORROW at Avanti F&B

Game of Thrones Season 6 may be debuting Sunday, and the Rocky Mountain region might have gotten rocked last weekend by a late season snow storm, but don’t be fooled, … Read More

Event Preview | Austin Burning CAN (Not Just A) Beer Festival

Originally based in Colorado, Oskar Blues Brewery announced plans to open up a third brewery in Austin in Mid-May — we couldn’t be more excited to have a piece of OB in Texas. In celebration, Oskar Blues is hosting a pair of down-home, music-centric experiences for Austinites this month. OB’s music roots and its passion for the outdoors, paired with their big & bold brews, are the perfect fit for Austin (Keep Austin Weird.) 4/20 marked one of the many celebration events scheduled for this week/weekend.  Read More

PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | April 20th, 2016

Denver PorchDrinkers! Have we got a week mapped out for you?! For those fans of terpenes that are celebrating the green holiday today, we have a list of some things … Read More

Event Recap | River North Beer Fest

Beer – the elixir of life, a delicious treat and the ultimate unifier. No event has ever invoked this more than the River North Beer Fest. The beer fest was split … Read More

Golden Road Brewing | Pints & Pierogi (Grand Central Market)

Golden Road Brewery is named as a tribute to the Grateful Dead’s song The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion.” If they had a motto, I believe they would take inspiration from a quote by the great Jerry Garcia said:  “our strong suit is what we do…” Golden Road opened their newest tasting location in the wonderfully eclectic and diverse Grand Central Market. Join them for a pint and a pierogi, and you will certainly know that their strong suit is everything they do.

I found myself in Los Angeles on a rainy Friday afternoon and I was lucky enough to experience the sights, sounds and experience of Golden Road and their newest location in the Grand Central Market.

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Event Preview | Odell Resurrects Small Batch Festival

Odell Brewing Company last hosted Small Batch Festival in 2012, and while the event was an amazing success, the brewery has been quite busy in the years since — They expanded their footprint (Iowa and Texas,) updated their seasonal lineup (Brombeere here, Double Pilsner gone,) released a handful of new bombers (such as Brazzle and Pina Agria,) created a seasonal variety pack (Montage,) and completed brewery construction. Having accomplished so much the past few years, Odell is ready to bring back the Small Batch Festival and hopes to make it an annual event. Adam D’Antonio from Odell said “production comes first and festivals second. We didn’t want to bring Small Batch back until we were ready and could do it right.” Read More

PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | April 13th, 2016

We have so many events this week. From every part and parcel of the craft beer cohort. Seriously. We got Oranges, Iron Maiden, Cupcakes, Beer Spa, Juicy Haze-Off!, Anti-Haze tapping, … Read More