In Knoxville, Tenn., “the market’s getting bigger, but it’s also more demanding and sophisticated,” says Andy Dahm, proprietor of Guild Distributing in Asheville, N.C., who handles the product of eight or nine microbreweries, including a couple from the Carolinas, and places them in Knoxville pubs weekly. Nice look at a developing beer culture.
Rob Kasper of the Baltimore Sun sat on two panels evaluating Oktoberfest beers, so he tasted 27 beers bottle for autumn and more on draft.
The favorite bottled beers:
- American. “Otter Creek Oktoberfest autumn ale, praised as ‘nutty and sweet’ by the jurists, and the Blue Ridge HopFest, a brown ale with, as one jurist put […]
The Rev. Jennifer Linman conducts monthly Bible and Brewskis meetings at a Manhattan bar, allowing participants to read Bible verses and follow with discussions over pints of beer. The minister brings extra bibles should they be needed, and David Copperfield’s Pub has plenty of beer.
The Portland Tribune profiles the Widmer brothers and Widmer Bros. Brewing. Interesting numbers: Widmer Hefeweizen accounts for 82% of sales and is on tap in 850 bars and restaurants in the Portland area. Looks like the competition with Pyramid Hefeweizen may get a little spirited as Pyramid focuses on wheat beers.
A new commerical for the Huber Brewing Co. in Wisconsin is backed by a “throttle to the floor polka-beat” and features these lyrics:
My Hat is Made in China,
My Shirt is Made in China,
My China’s Made in England
But MY BEER IS MADE IN MONROE WISCONSIN!
As well as Huber beers, the brewery produces Berghoff and other […]
Gene Muller literally founded Flying Fish Brewing Co. on the Internet. Muller said the idea was to make the website “This Old House meets the World Wide Web” – letting visitors see the thousands of details involved in putting a craft brewery together. By the time the first beers went on sale in 1996, site […]
The relationship between Bert Grant’s Ales and the late Bert Grant becomes more tenuous with the announcement that Yakima Brewing and Malting Co. is moving production of its beers out of Yakima, Wash., to other breweries not yet named.
Obviously the beers will be brewed under contract, not in the brewery he built in 1990, and […]
