Tag: craft beer

The Drinkable Week heads to Maui

When one thinks of Hawaii, tropical fruit-forward rum drinks usually come to mind and there’s been plenty of that this week. Even though tiki bar culture really was born on the West Coast of the mainland, there’s no denying the role this tropical paradise played in its development. But I want to talk about some…

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The Drinkable Week: Beer! Beer! Beer!

The U.S. brewery count passes 4,000, Jim Koch writes a book and unveils the Sam Adams Nitro line and Red Robin doubles down on craft beer. • One of the big pieces of news to come out of the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) last week was that the number of breweries in the U.S. crossed…

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Back from GABF

So this turned out to be one of the better Great American Beer Festivals for me personally. I won 1st place in the Beer & Food category in the 2015 North American Guild of Beer Writers (NAGBW) awards for my article, “Feeding Frenzy,” in All About Beer Magazine. It’s a tremendous honor to be recognized,…

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Drinkable Week: ABInBev rides the Golden Road & a bit of whiskey news

Another local docks with the global mothership, an Upstate New York bourbon comes of age and a very merry PDX-mas …All on the latest edition of the drinkable week. • Another week, another craft beer acquisition. Anheuser-Busch InBev announced that it is acquiring L.A. brewery Golden Road, founded by Meg Gill and bar owner Tony…

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