There’s a hops shortage right now, which has forced many smaller brewers to either cancel planned beers or change recipes. What hops are out there are very expensive.
Boston Beer has announced that they’ll be selling ten tons of hops they’ve imported from Europe to smaller craft breweries at cost to help bolster their production until […]

I was already to sit down and write my own drinking game for the Super Bowl, but I ran across this on le basketbawl an NBA blog of all things, but this guy nailed it. So why recreate the wheel? I got drinking to do!
Here ’s my favorites.
Chug your beer ( or take a […]

From Bloomberg:
The brewer, Scandinavia’s biggest, introduced a beer today that costs 2,008 Danish kroner ($396.47), the price being based on the year of its introduction. The Vintage No. 1 brew will be sold at three Copenhagen restaurants, including Noma, a holder of two Michelin stars and the world’s 15th-best restaurant in 2007, according to S.Pellegrino.
The […]

Many farmers in the Pacific north-west, where America’s hop production is concentrated, have turned to more profitable lines—especially corn, which can be made into ethanol. The decrease in hop production, put at some 50% over the past decade, has sent prices through the roof. Brian Owens, the brewmaster of the O’Fallon Brewery near St Louis, […]

Let me start off my letter by saying the owner of this site (Joel Johnson) and a contributor (myself, Travis Hudson) are both former Kansas City area residents who love Boulevard beers. Myself and Joel (note that I am speaking on behalf of him) frown upon your limited midwest distribution, especially after we both moved […]

In a daring and apparently unprecedented bit of crime, someone broke into the Guinness brewery in Dublin yesterday and stole 450 kegs of beer and stout. And the manhunt is on.
Ireland’s national police force, the Garda Siochana, announced the nationwide manhunt earlier today. A lone man drove into the brewery Wednesday and hitched a fully […]

Steve Hindy, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery, lost his son last week in a bike accident in New York. Our condolences.
Sam Hindy, 27, was killed on Nov. 16 after he and a friend mistakenly biked onto the upper level of the bridge, which is reserved for cars and trucks. When Hindy turned around, he hit a […]

Today’s Thrillist missive is about the Radegast Biergarten, a new Polish/Slovakian beer hall with rough-hewn tables, retractable roof panels, tons of beer and cordials, and lots of chewy Eastern European staples like schnitzel and braised rabbit. I’m sure it’ll be packed to the gills, but it sounds like a fun place to hang out without […]

Starting tonight, Hop Devil Grill in Manhattan’s Lower Easy Side will have the following beers on tap for a week. I won’t be there tonight, but as I’m a bit of a fiend for hops myself—and I like Hop Devil’s selection already—I’m definitely going to check it out:

Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
Smuttynose Big A IPA
Captain […]

From the Denver Business Journal:
Oskar Blues Inc. of Lyons plans to open a second Colorado brewery and double its beer-making capacity to accommodate recent growth.
The beer maker has leased 18,000 square feet of space in a former Packaging Resources Inc. building in Longmont, where it will brew and package all of Oskar Blues’ canned and […]

Enjoy unnecessary field sobriety tests? Nothing gives me the jollies more than a cop forcing me to walk a line while repeating the Declaration of Independence backwards and blowing into a high-tech dildo. Decorating your vehicle with beer pong memorabilia is just asking for this to happen, but you are a champion, so who give […]