The 2024 US Open Beer Championship just wrapped up in Ohio and they’ve announced this year’s winners and the breweries judged to be the best in America. This competition is the only one to include beers from professional breweries as well as beers from gold medal winners from the 2021 National …
Read More »This Pride Month, Big Beer Is Pulling Back from ‘Rainbow Capitalism’
One of the more screw-loosening aspects of a reporter’s job is following social media accounts that are relevant to a given beat. On the beer beat, getting barraged day in and out with corporate marketing and brand-friendly “creative” that rarely lives up to its name is enough to make you …
Read More »Big Splash: Award-Winning Sake Brewer Lands in Northern Arizona
Sakurai’s sake has a very good reputation. “It’s very good,” Konishi said. “People think very highly of it.” Arizona winemakers have been gaining recognition and acclaim for decades with vineyards and tasting rooms in the Verde Valley, Willcox, Sonoita and Elgin that’s been coupled with a boom in craft breweries …
Read More »Big Gipp Releases ‘404 Pack’ Craft Beer & Mixtape
Big Gipp has announced that he’s teaming up with a Black-owned brewery to release both a craft beer and a mixtape of the same name. In a press release shared with HipHopDX, the Goodie Mob MC revealed that he’d be teaming up with High Gravity Hip Hop and Georgia’s first …
Read More »Brews News: Muddy York and Paris Beer Company big winners at brewing awards
Setting course this summer for Muddy York or Paris should be on the to-do list for craft beer fans. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Distroscale Toronto’s Muddy York Brewing Company — the brewery that offers ukelele lessons with your draft — and Paris Beer …
Read More »Big Brewers Adress ‘Paradoxical’ Beer Consumption Patterns As Summer Begins
(Courtesy Molson Coors) It’s safe to say the past few years have been “unprecedented’ what with a pandemic that locked down the world, followed up by the worst inflation that we’ve seen in 40 years has profoundly undoubtedly altered consumer beer buying behavior. That’s resulted in a paradox of sorts: …
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