Every now and again, the Crew receives emails from the Brewers Association. Sometimes they are just reminders about the Great American Beer Festival and Craft Brewers Conference, or perhaps an invitation to sit in on a Zoom chat about the state of the industry. The most recent delivery was a reminder that American Craft Beer…
Month: May 2024
The Week Ahead in Beer: Moms love brews but buy her a present, too
Years ago, I was scrambling to figure out something to buy my mom for Mother’s Day. I sat down at Canteen to think of something over a pint, and it hit me that her favorite beer, Irish Red, was on tap. So I had them fill a growler (remember those days?) and brought it home….
Nexus Brewery overcomes multiple challenges to keep things cooking
It was a good year, but it was a tough year over at Nexus Brewery. Kinda like how the food is challening to make just right, but oh so delicious when you finally get to eat it. Well, it was something like that, and pardon us for always getting our brains stuck on the delectable…
Rumor Brewing inches closer to their final form in scenic Cedar Crest
It can take a brewery a while to truly find its niche, its final form, so to speak. Sometimes that is to merely find a way to stand out in a crowded market, but other times it is simply a matter of grasping the true nature of its place in the grand scheme of things,…
The Week Ahead in Beer: May the cerveza be with you, always
This is one of those big party weekends, where we get the back-to-back double whammy of my birthday and then my hangover. Wait, no, that’s not it, at least not for the rest of you. It’s May the 4th Be With You and Cinco de Mayo, the back-to-back days of wildly different-yet-fun merriment. Of course…
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