Category: beer

Drinkable Image: Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Mills River, N.C.

Last year Chico, California craft beer pioneer Sierra Nevada Brewing Company opened the doors to its brand-spanking new East Coast facility in Mills River, North Carolina. Now I get how Charlie Bucket felt in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.” The brewhouse is just one small piece of this sprawling beer paradise in the greater Asheville, N.C….

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Drinkable Image: Young Henrys, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia

The Australian craft beer scene has exploded in the the past three to four years and among the successful startups is Young Henrys. Housed in an airy garage-like space in Sydney’s Newtown district, there’s a certain rough-and-tumble rock club vibe to the space. It’s the perfect place to drink away a lazy afternoon.

Image(s) of the Day: Camden Town Brewery, London, U.K.

The United Kingdom’s brewing traditions were among those that influenced craft brewing in the U.S. Now, American craft brewers are influencing the U.K.’s burgeoning craft beer scene right back. U.S. brewers adopted, then adapted British styles such as pale ales and IPAs and the versions that up-and-coming U.K.breweries have been producing have considerably more in common…

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Image(s) of the Day: Black Isle, Scotland, U.K.

Scotland, like many other parts of the world, is in the midst of a craft brewing revolution. In the north, just outside of Inverness, lies Black Isle and the all-organic brewery of the same name. The operation is fairly isolated on a farm in an area where there are far more sheep—black sheep, at that—than…

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