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Hoops & Hops | NBA Team Beer Pairings
October 27, 2015 | Victoria Pratt 1
The tip-off to the NBA season is upon us. Grab a local craft beer to bring down the house and cheer on your favorite team! We’ve combined our love for the great game of basketball with our love for local craft beers. We hope you enjoy these NBA-inspired beer pairings. The Larry O’Brien Championship trophy currently resides with the Cavaliers in Cleveland, Ohio this season. Will your team take it from them?
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Event Preview | Novemberfest (Washington D.C.)
October 27, 2015 | Stacey Goers
Oktoberfest season is too short for many of us, with not enough time to savor the brews among the leaves and sweaters. Solution: Northern Virginia’s Rustico will host its … Read More
Schooner EXACT Brewing Co. | 3-Grid IPA
October 27, 2015 | Katelyn Pelak
ABV 6.7% | IBU 62
One of the great things about living in a beer-forward city like Seattle is the beer fluency of the entire city. Virtually every person in the area can carry on a conversation about beer styles and the relative virtues of one brewery over another without prompting, guaranteeing that a diverse set of opinions is just a conversation away. It’s in this way that I discovered the Schooner EXACT 3-Grid IPA.
Weekly Growler Fill | National Beer News Roundup
October 26, 2015 | Chelsea Mitchell
This week we’ve got not one, but two stories about Oskar Blues! On top of that, there is new glassware for cider, Pabst is reviving a classic, and the perfect post-workout beer is hoping to make it to market. Keep reading to get the details on these stories and more in this edition of the Weekly Growler Fill.
Behind the Scenes at Rocky Mountain Barrel Company
October 26, 2015 | Chris and Jeff Estes
Innovation and experimentation is the name of the craft beer game. The best craft breweries are always looking for ways to make great beers that showcase incredible flavors and unique characteristics. One of the more popular ways to experiment has been with barrel-aged beers. But have you ever wondered where all those barrels come from? We did, so we recently paid a visit to Rocky Mountain Barrel Company, where Sales Manager & Chief Barrel Slinger, Noah Steingraeber, told us all about the barrel business and how they help breweries to create great barrel-aged beer. Read More
Roaring Fork Beer Company | Hoppa Road Imperial IPA
October 26, 2015 | Cory Pelc
Style: IPA – Imperial/Double | ABV: 8.5% | IBUs: N/A
An 8% hop bomb; Hoppa Road is brewed with over two and a half pounds of Citra Hops per barrel. This makes for a big juicy, lupulicious brew.
Event Preview | Dry Dock Tenth Anniversary Party Pour List
October 23, 2015 | Tristan Chan
We all know Dry Dock Brewing for their mainstays. Apricot Blonde, which added a bronze medal in the highly contested Fruit Beer category at the 2015 GABF, along with the … Read More
The Brewtography Project | Colorado Cider Company
October 23, 2015 | Amber Dunlap
This week’s Brewtography Project feature takes us beyond the breweries and into a space that couldn’t be more in season, Denver’s Colorado Cider Company. The Brewtography Project aims to capture the essence of the craft beer (plus cider!) industry by visual storytelling, which is why we are so drawn to his work. Each week we’ll take you through some of his pieces but for more of what Dustin is working on visit The Brewtography Project.
Wild Woods Brewery | Ponderosa Porter
October 23, 2015 | Cecelia Kathleen
Average Reading Time: 3 Minutes
Style: American Porter | ABV: 6.7% | IBUs: 45
Picture yourself walking up Mount Sanitas Trailhead in Boulder on a sunny, warm fall day. Your mind is clear and the air is fresh. All of a sudden, you ask yourself, “Am I losing my mind, or do I smell vanilla cupcakes?!”. This is the origin story of Wild Woods Brewery’s Ponderosa Porter as recounted to me by its female co-founder, Erin Evans.
Denver Bicycle Cafe to Debut Dedicated Charity Tap Handle
October 22, 2015 | Brian Phipps
For the month of November, the Denver Bicycle Cafe will donate $1 to Trips for Kids Denver/Metro for every pint of Mockery Brewing’s Rakau IPA that is poured … Read More
Aquanaut Brewing Co | The Search ESB
October 22, 2015 | Mike Wronski
5.4% ABV | 40 IBU
Searching has become a daily obsession in our modern culture. Our day is consumed with idle searching; Googling a topic, asking Siri a question, scrolling through your Twitter/Facebook feed, flipping through TV channels, entering a YouTube vortex. Billions of dollars have been made off of search algorithms. You most likely ended up on this article via a search.
But then there’s the bigger Search. The lifelong pursuits, the non-stop studying, the week after week commitment to that ever elusive goal. The kind that inspires Captain Ahab’s voyage, haunts Ponce de Leon’s dreams and coaxes Cubs fans into watching them in the postseason. A deeply embedded feeling that stirs and motivates you to action (or U2 action). This is the space where most craft brewers exist, always improving and tweaking, working towards that perfect beer. Read More
Ultimate 6er | Halloween Beer Costumes
October 21, 2015 | Niel Stender 2
When I was a child, growing up in suburban New Jersey, there was a Halloween costume contest every year at the park around the corner from our house. The process involved walking around in a circle, with other eager trick-or-treaters, so the judges could get a load of everyone’s gear. The winner for each category received a $2 bill, exciting stuff for a 6-year-old in *cough cough* 1986. I am proud to say I won this contest for one category or another several times. Now that I’m an “adult” I’ll go out on a limb and wager it may have been rigged since my mom was the mayor of our town. But that’s not the point.
PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | Oct 21, 2015
October 21, 2015 | Cory Pelc
Don’t let a little bit of rain ruin your day! There are a lot of events coming your way this week and next. Keep checking back on the event … Read More
3 Floyds Brewing Co. | Zombie Dust (Zombie Edition)
October 21, 2015 | Gregory Acero
Style: Pale Ale | ABV: 6.2% | IBUs: 50
Halloween is right around the corner and it is one of my all time favorite yearly celebrations. I love scary/horror movies and the month of October is just filled with them, but my all-time favorite horror movie genre is ZOMBIES! Living in Western Pennsylvania you can’t help but be a zombie fan, because the genius behind the genre, George A. Romero, attended college here and also filmed his his first zombie flick, Night of the Living Dead right here in Western Pennsylvania. Ever since then, zombies have been a huge hit in pop culture: movies, television series, clothing, sport events and beer. So what better way to bring in the zombie hoard than with 3 Floyds Brewing Zombie Dust?
Happy Hour Post | The Saga Continues
October 20, 2015 | Tristan Chan 1
Times are a changing in the craft beer-o-sphere. Each day, more and more news breaks on acquisitions, ESOPS, private equity stakes, and CEO successions of long time industry staples. We’ve also seen major brewery expansion announcements, exciting bottle releases, event debuts and essentially more news that can possibly be distilled into individual breaking stories and our weekly growler fill alone.
So as we first alluded to nearly a year ago in the debut of the Happy Hour Post, we want to do a better job of serving our readership. We’ll begin slowly, mostly on major news days, and soon moving to a daily format, recapping all of the major beer news that happens each day. But even more so, borrowing from our good friends at Kentucky Sports Radio as they’ve been doing with their their late night post recapping Kentucky sports news each day, we’ll also add a little pop culture to keep things interesting. This is after all, what the porch drinking experience is all about.
Usually this post will take place at the end of the day, but for this kickoff (and since we had such a big news day yesterday) I thought I’d bring y’all a morning shot of Mocha Stout. Lets get to the good stuff. Read More
Squatters Craft Beers | Barrel Fever
October 20, 2015 | Chris & Sylvia Hollands
11.2% ABV
There have been some big changes for Squatters and the Utah Brew Cooperative. New primary leadership may be taking one of Utah’s most beloved breweries in a slightly altered course. We hope Barrel Fever is something that will be built upon in the future. Read More
Weekly Growler Fill | National Beer News Roundup
October 19, 2015 | Chelsea Mitchell
Craft beer tourism is booming in Grand Rapids, a beer startup exploits a loophole, and a new law loosens social media restrictions for breweries in California. You’ll be getting details on all of these stories as well as more news from the AB InBev/SABMiller deal. Yes, there is even more news about that deal. Keep reading to find out more in this edition of the Weekly Growler Fill.
Event Preview | Chicago Beer Festival
October 19, 2015 | Mike Zoller
What: The Chicago Beer Festival
When: Saturday October 24th
Session 1: 1-4pm
Session 2: 6-9pm
Where: The Great Hall at Union Station
How … Read More
Listermann Brewing Co. | Shamrock Shake
October 19, 2015 | Spencer Mapes
ABV: 5.5% | IBU 20
“Top o’ the mornin’ to ya!” is how Listermann Brewing Co.’s Irish Cream Stout, Shamrock Shake, greets its lucky consumers. A magical brew that’s … Read More
The Brewtography Project | Station 26 Brewing Co.
October 16, 2015 | Amber Dunlap
This week’s Brewtography Project feature takes us to Station 26 Brewing Co. in Denver, CO through Dustin Hall’s lens. The Brewtography Project aims to capture the essence of the craft beer industry by visual storytelling, which is why we are so drawn to his work. Each week we’ll take you through some of his pieces but for more of what Dustin is working on visit The Brewtography Project.
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