Anheuser-Busch InBev, the corporate owners of Budweiser/Bud Light, Beck's, Stella Artois and a pile of other names, have announced they will be releasing a new beer to their lineup in January - Bud Light Platinum. Bud Light Platinum will fall between Bud and Bud Light when it comes to calories, but will set above both of the others in ABV at six percent. The Boston Globe brings up a good point - "I'm not sure how A-B InBev can call this new beverage a 'light beer' when it has more alcohol than regular Budweiser and only 8 fewer calories." The overwhelming consensus is that InBev is doing...
If you're a craft beer fanatic with a sweet tooth prepare to have both your taste preference pleased at once, as Beercandy combines the two. The company makes caramels and taffy infused with beer as one of the main ingredients. The caramels retail for $7.50 for a four piece two-ounce box and $18.50 for a 12 piece six-ounce box. The caramels come in four craft beer styles/flavors. The lambic caramel uses a berry sour beer to make the candy, which is then coated in dark chocolate and pink candy lines. Lager blends butterscotch, caramel, biscuit and a malts flavors, covered in milk chocolat...
Just when you think Google can’t possibly put its monstrous, technological, futuristic, world-liberating hands in anything else, the company teams up with Dogfish Head Brewing to create “URKontinent,” a beer developed with input from the online community around the world. If you’re not familiar with Dogfish Head, you’re missing out. The excellent Delaware-based craft-beer brewery declares that its purpose is creating “off-centered ales for off-centered people.” The company started as a small brewpub in June 1995, focusing on specialty craft beers, but they’ve since expanded ...
Like my previous One Tanked Trip, this month's visit was to an establishment tucked away in the most unlikely of places. Just south of Youngstown is the city of Boardman. Nearly hidden in a sea of chain restaurants sits Vintage Estates Wine and Beer, a craft beer heaven known as the best kept secret in town. I stumbled across this little gem, earlier this year after Boardman's annual beer festival, The Big Tap In, and have been dying to return ever since. Containing over 900 craft beers and 1000 wines, Vintage Estates is one of those rare stops that bring a smile to the face of both craft ...
The craft-brew boom has been sweeping the nation for a while now, but the practitioners of the movement remain steeped in tradition — sometimes to a fault. So when the Shaun O’Sullivan and Nico Freccia began canning their craft brews, it was met with some initial resistance. The two founders of 21st Amendment Brewery first met in San Francisco in 1995 while attending a summer brewing class at University of California-Davis. Both men had moved to the Bay area from the beer wasteland, or just general wasteland, of Los Angeles. Both were interested in craft beers and sought to further the...
The craft-brew boom has been sweeping the nation for a while now, but the practitioners of the movement remain steeped in tradition — sometimes to a fault. So when the Shaun O’Sullivan and Nico Freccia began canning their craft brews, it was met with some initial resistance. The two founders of 21st Amendment Brewery first met in San Francisco in 1995 while attending a summer brewing class at University of California-Davis. Both men had moved to the Bay area from the beer wasteland, or just general wasteland, of Los Angeles. Both were interested in craft beers and sought to further their...
Michael Symon Serves Up Burgers And Craft Brew Cleveland’s own world-renowned chef Michael Symon revitalized the city’s restaurant scene in the late ’90s with the opening of Lola, his trendsetting gourmet eatery. He followed it up in subsequent years with several other profitable restaurants, which made both a splash in the city and garnered critical acclaim nationwide. With the opening of B Spot in 2009, Symon created an affordable burger joint that became an immediate success. Over the course of the last two years, the talented chef has opened two more locations along with a suite cat...
Michael Symon Serves Up Burgers And Craft Brew Cleveland’s own world-renowned chef Michael Symon revitalized the city’s restaurant scene in the late ’90s with the opening of Lola, his trendsetting gourmet eatery. He followed it up in subsequent years with several other profitable restaurants, which made both a splash in the city and garnered critical acclaim nationwide. With the opening of B Spot in 2009, Symon created an affordable burger joint that became an immediate success. Over the course of the last two years, the talented chef has opened two more locations along with a suite c...
Oakshire Brewing Company of Eugene, Oregon will release its second Barrel Aged Beer under the label Hellshire on Saturday November 12th. Sales of the beer begin at noon at the brewery in their newly remodeled tasting room and will end at 4PM. The second beer in the Hellshire series is an Imperial Stout that was 100% aged in Buffalo Trace and Heaven Hill Bourbon Barrels for 7 months. Notes of vanilla, coconut, oak and bourbon intertwine with the beer's complex chocolate and roasted coffee character, making for a contemplative beer meant for enjoying now, or aging for months or years. It is 10.5...
Escondido, CA | October 17 -- Best to disregard this press release. It's unlikely that you possess the sophistication to fathom the overwhelming gravitas of the potation it discusses. Thus, stop reading now. Hit delete and retire outside with your fizzy yellow beer. But if, by some infinitesimally minute chance, you are one of the Worthy craft beer cognoscenti and you've somehow surmised that you're prepared for today's release of Double Bastard Ale, then do proceed. With caution. "This is one lacerative muther of an ale," the braggadocious bottle warns. "It is unequivocally certain that yo...
This past Saturday evening was the end of Cleveland Beer Week, which capped things off with the packed beer tasting, Brewzilla at the Galleria at Erieview. Members of the Buzzbin Magazine staff have attended a lot of these festivals over the course of the year, and we must say this was by far the largest turnout of 2011. Over 70 breweries participated in the event with each offering a handful of their best beers. The Brewer's Circle, the special VIP section of the event, offered some rare beers along with some tasty appetizers. Among the standouts in the Brewer's Circle were: Goose Island M...
Greg Koch, CEO of craft beer powerhouse Stone Brewing Co., will make a rare stop in the Cleveland area on Nov. 1 to promote his new book, The Craft of Stone Brewing Co. His visit to the city will be an all-day ordeal with the following stops planned through the day. 10:30AM - 3PM: John Carrol University This is a private engagement for students of John Carroll University only. - 10:30- 11:30am Student session - 12pm Lunch with professors and students - 2 - 3pm Student session 5PM - 6:30PM: Lizardville Beer Store and Whiskey Bar - Book signing & meet and greet with Koch. 6:30P...
Walmart made a splash at this year's National Beer Wholesalers Association. The event, held at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, is one of the largest gathering of beer distributors in the country and is attended by most established breweries. Former Walmart CEO Lee Scott, who currently serves on the board of directors, was on-hand to let distributors know that the superchain would be opening its doors for more specialized business. Mr. Scott was quoted as saying that Wal-Mart "built the company on two things: One was price, but the other was assortment, and you can't take an area like beer wher...
Craft beer is a growing industry, but there are still plenty of you out there that are wondering what all the fuss is about. Fortunately for you, there is a craft beer tasting at Five Points Wine and Bar in Poland that can help explain it. The beer tasting will run from 6PM to 9PM and will feature appetizers as well as a hearty selection of craft beers that will make your mouth yearn for more. Looking through the list on their website, we see plenty of brews from some of our favorite microbreweries. Dogfish Head, Great Lakes, Troegs and Flying Dog are all represented as well as crowd-pleasers...
(New York, San Francisco) - America's smallest, largest, and most award-winning Jewish (and now Sideshow Freak) Beer Company, Shmaltz Brewing celebrates its 15th year of brewing with three Limited-Edition Extreme Holiday Offerings, including Genesis 15:15® (currently on shelves, 13.4% ABV), the HE'BREW Holiday Gift Pack® (available October - December 2011) that will feature eight prized Shmaltz creations, and Jewbelation 15® (available November - February 2011, 15 malts, 15 hops, 15% ABV). Shmaltz proprietor Jeremy Cowan's debut small business memoir, Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah, is also now ava...
Starting today and running through Oct. 22, will be a slew of events each and everyday. Among the highlight are: “Grains vs. Grapes: The Ultimate Match-up,” an official keg tapping and four-course dinner, on Friday, October 14 from 7-10 p.m. at Crowne Plaza in downtown Cleveland (777 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland 44113). The evening will be hosted by special guests Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery and Marianne Franz of the American Wine School. Oliver and Frantz will discuss a selection of wines and craft beers that they have paired with a multi-course menu created by the Michael Symon...
Every American that isn’t a complete idiot knows the story of the Mayflower and its historic landing at Plymouth Rock. The pilgrims that stepped onto shore from that fabled voyage are remembered every Thanksgiving in elementary school plays throughout the country. We remember their funny outfits with the shiny buckle on the hat, even though we don’t know what the buckle was actually for. We remember how the pilgrims worked together with Native Americans to feed everyone over the winter, even though the passengers on the Mayflower didn’t actually get off the boat and start settling unt...
Ever want to hit the water with a bunch of friends and some tasty craft beer? On Saturday, Sept. 10, you will be able to do just that. Join Buckeye Brewing Company as they set sail for a 2 1/2 hour cruise aboard the Nautica Queen with a boat full of beer and a scavenger hunt along the Cuyahoga. Garin Wright, Head Brewer of Buckeye Brewing Company, will be on board to share samples of some flagship brands not to mention some brand new releases. One of those exciting new batches is the German-style Altbier, which the brewery has created for Cleveland Beer Week 2011. Garin has brewed 1000...
Madison's Cellar Rats Brewery will follow in the footsteps of other Ohio breweries such as Great Lakes and Thirsty Dog when they begin to release their Rat Tail Ale in bottles beginning this month. Aside from building a new brewhouse, Cellar Rats purchased a 15-barrel Premier Stainless system, 30-barrel fermenters and a small bottling line to expand its operation, which will increase he brewing capacity from 180 gallons to 900 gallons a day. The brewery, whose estate also is home of the Debonne Vineyards, has also began growing hops on the vineyard property and has currently planned an a...
This month’s craft-beer review comes from the Goose Island Brewery in Chicago. The brew, Honker’s Ale, is one I’ve unfortunately had trouble finding regularly. This time I lucked out and found a few sixers at a grocery with a good selection of crafts and imports....
