Wonder of wonders, Joel tipped us off to a great new site yesterday: BeerMenus.com. This site scours NYC bars to find out where the best beers are served. The two founders, Will and Eric, are huge fans of Stone Arrogant Bastard and Dogfish Head 90 Minute. Which definitely gives me confidence in their craft beer [...]

Could this be the year? Alabama’s beer laws, which were written by a caveman back when John McCain was born, may just get the updating they deserve. There have been a number of high-profile incidences lately, thanks in a large part to Free the Hops. Free the Hops is a grassroots organization lobbying for beer [...]

Oh Sam Adams, always trying to get us to drink glass shards… From a CNN article today:
Shares of Boston Beer Co., which brews Samuel Adams beer, slid Monday after the brewer voluntarily recalled select 12 ounce glass bottles of its beer, saying the brew could contain small bits of glass.
Earlier Monday afternoon, the company said [...]

At the risk of making ourselves look like fools in front of more knowledgeable beer environmentalists, I thought I’d share this article that Matt sent in about the three most environmentally friendly breweries. According to the author, the three breweries are (in order):

Brooklyn Brewery (warning, annoying website alert). Why? 100% wind power.
New Belgium (warning, another [...]

I recently received the following e-mail:
Hello Joel.
A few of my good friends and I, like you, have gotten together to brew some beer. We have spent a good part of the last two years finding a brewer, creating the recipe (countless nights of batch tasting) and polishing our look. At the end of the day [...]

Opening a brewery is exciting business. It makes you wonder why there are so few micros in Georgia. The answer, we’ve increasingly found, is distribution. Georgia’s distribution laws are archaic, it turns out. The now-defunct Dogwood agrees in this oldy-but-goody from 2004:
As a start-up brewer, Moran says, his most important decision — more [...]

There was a great article in the Athens Banner-Herald this month on Terrapin Brewery. I’ll hit the highlights. First, Terrapin started by contract brewing:
Since 2002 when Terrapin introduced its first beer, Rye Pale Ale, the Athens-based company has been contracting with other breweries to make its beer, most recently getting its bottled beer done at [...]