Beer / March 22, 2017 / No Comments.
After three whole days without college basketball (you don’t count, NIT), the NCAA Tournament finally resumes tomorrow with the Sweet 16.
Since we know you’re going to be watching at a bar, we’re doing you the favor of suggesting the beer to pair with whatever team you’re rooting for. Goooo beer!
read moreBeer / March 13, 2017 / No Comments.
If you’re like us you like to stay in the loop when it comes to the beer world. Especially when it comes to everyone’s favorite summer beer, Corona. The latests in booze news is Corona Light’s new look. They launched their new packaging last week, just in time for the summer season.
read moreBeer / March 8, 2017 / No Comments.
Seasonal beers are great.
Picture yourself at a summer barbecue — you’re washing down grilled meats with a refreshing kolsch or fruit beer. In the fall, you’re tailgating with an Oktoberfest or pumpkin brew. A few months later, you toast the holidays with spiced winter warmers and stouts as dark as a December night.
read moreBeer / March 1, 2017 / No Comments.
On my honor, I will try, to pair beer with my Girl Scout cookies.
The girl scots promote compassion, courage, confidence, and cookies.
If you’re lucky, around this time every year, a parent in your office puts one of those blessed cookie order forms in a communal area at work. And you, depending on how hungry you are at the time, order 2-25 boxes of Thin Mints, Samoas, and Peanut Butter Patties. (Don’t worry. If you missed the boat, or the parents of you office make their kids actually sell the cookies themselves, you can still order them here).
read moreBeer / February 27, 2017 / No Comments.
St. Patrick’s Day is one of our favorite holiday. It gives us a great reason to celebrate what brings us together (drinking, that is). Guinness is synonymous with this day and it’s time to show that St. Patrick’s Day can bring out the best in all of us.
read moreBeer / February 21, 2017 / No Comments.
But only because you haven’t tried the new Game of Thrones beer, Bend the Knee yet.
This golden ale, that finishes with a “firm hop bitterness,” joins Ommegang’s Take the Black stout, Fire & Blood red ale, Valar Morghulis dubbel, Valar Dohaeris tripel, and Three-Eyed Raven dark saison.
read moreBeer / February 16, 2017 / No Comments.
A few weeks back, we told you about Walmart getting into the craft beer business.
Recap: Walmart partnered up with a brewery to create Trouble Brewing, whose craft beers are sold exclusively at their stores.
read moreBeer / February 1, 2017 / No Comments.
You know the Smithsonian. The venerable institution does research and operates museums on just about every important topic: art, history, nature, freakin’ OUTER SPACE.
read moreBeer / January 30, 2017 / No Comments.
If you’re a craft beer lover, you know all about growlers. For those of you who are already confused, a growler is a reusable, glass jug used to transport beer. They’re commonly sold at breweries as a means to sell take-out craft beer.
read moreBeer / January 25, 2017 / No Comments.
It seems like every week I hear about a new craft brewery popping up in the city where I live or the surrounding ‘burbs. A new craft beer store just opened down the road. Clearly, there’s massive demand for craft brews that these new businesses are aiming to satisfy.
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