The Chicago Reader profiles Jonathan Surratt, the guy behind beermapping.com and Really Simple BEER Syndication.
Love this line:
The Chicago map has 138 listings. “People will say, ‘There are 400 bars in my neighborhood and only 4 on the map’,” says Surratt, a 32-year-old e-commerce student at DePaul. “Well, if I were to put every place that […]
This article - Traveling with wine: Dealing with the new airline regulations - is really about flying with wine, and packing it well in your shipped luggage. But bottles of alcohol are bottles of alcohol . . .
The gritty details start several paragraphs from the lead. All the tips are terrific, and some are things […]
Way back when we mentioned the arrival of Fat Tire in Chicago.
The Daily Southtown has a feature on how sales are booming.
“The 22-ounce bottles definitely make a statement,” said Michelle Wilham, New Belgium’s Chicago market manager.
We can attest to that. We saw the bottles in almost every quality beer retailer we looked in.
The Corvallis Gazette-Times gives some well-deserved attention to the hometown Oregon Trail Brewery.
Oregon Trail produces 1% the amount of beer that Rogue Ales ships, but will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary.
“I just want to supply beer to the local market,” said (Dave) Wills, the president, largest shareholder and self-described “managing instigator” of Corvallis’ only brewery.
Corvallis […]
The San Diego Business Journal profiles Stone Brewing and founders Greg Koch and Steve Wagner.
From the story:
“We didn’t get into this to create something, and then turn around and sell it,” Koch said, when asked whether the two might ever consider being acquired by a major brewer such as Coors or Budweiser.
“I don’t think they’d […]
Dane County in Wisconsin - the country that contains Madison, which tomorrow hosts the best beer festival in the world, The Great Taste of the Midwest - is getting three new brewpubs.
The Wisconsin State Journal has the details:
- In December, Great Dane Pub & Brewing Co. will open another location near Hilldale Shopping Center.
- Granite […]
I want a documentary like this for every state in the country (OK, California will be a little tough):
Brewed in Vermont: A Short History of Beer, Community, and the Art of Craft-Brewing in the Green Mountains (Directed by Scott McLuskey, Matt DeLuca, and Mark Byron) Brewed in Vermont explores the history of micro-brewing, […]
