I’ve been finding out more and more info about the Craft Beer Bill the longer I talk to club members and people in the booze industry in Auburn. Some of it is a little odd, but the latest tidbit I found just really stuck out as ridiculous.
Silly laws go against common sense.
The passage of the [...]
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Everyone these days has a coffee stout. Great Divide, Ithaca, Lakefront, Long Trail, Brooklyn, and our very own Good People all have a stout infused with coffee.
So why are we here? Is coffee stout the next trendy thing like IPA’s? My first homebrew experience was a coffee stout. It just made sense. My friends and [...]
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In the next two weeks we should see these beers arrive in Auburn. They will be available at Fine Wine and Beer by Gus. If you are on his mailing list you should receive an email by the middle of the week stating what he will be able to get. Gus is [...]
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Ok, so I modified the famous line from Neil Armstrong when he became the first man to walk on the moon on July 19, 1969. With the passage of legislative measure HB373, our limit has been raised from 6.0 percent 13.9 percent. We can drink foreign and microbrew beer now (legally)!
Overall this might not [...]
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My good friend Derrell Winowich, who is close to beginning operations with Alabama’s newest craft brewery, the Chattahoochee Brewing Company, based in Phenix City, created a poll at probrewer.com, asking how many pro brewers started out as home brewers. probrewer.com is THE forum on the interwebs for Professional Brewers.
Derrell started this poll on March [...]
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Here is the main article in today’s Montgomery Advertiser. It is THE front page article and carries over to page 13A.
Coming to a head
Beer drinkers make inroads
By Kym Klass • and Rick Harmon • April 20, 2008
Mike Johnson pours a sample beer during a meeting of the Auburn Brew Club.
Two years ago, a bill [...]
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We received a contact email from the new Auburn Beer Club, and we are happy to let everyone know about them and link to them. It appears this club’s focus is on commercial beer, and there’s lots of fine commercial beers, although lamentably — relatively few in Alabama. One statement on their website [...]
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Our sixth weekly craft beer column in Auburn’s Corner News. This one focused on Witbiers available in the Auburn area. The thumbnail to the right links to an image of the Corner News article, or click here for a .pdf version. The original text is copied below. The end result appearing in the [...]
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Our fifth weekly craft beer column in Auburn’s Corner News. This one focused on Terrapin’s Big Hoppy Monster, an Imperial Red Ale. The thumbnail to the left links to an image of the Corner News article, or click here for a .pdf version. The original text is copied below. The end result appearing [...]
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Our fourth weekly craft beer column in the Auburn Corner News. This one focused on Pumpkin Ales. The thumbnail to the right links to an image of the Corner News article, or click here for a .pdf version. The original text is copied below. The end result appearing in the paper may be [...]
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Our second weekly craft beer column in the Auburn Corner News. The thumbnail to the right links to an image, or click here for a .pdf. The original text is copied below. The end product that appeared in the paper is a little bit different than the original.
Some like it black
by John Little
I felt [...]
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The Auburn Brew Club’s first weekly craft beer column was published in the Corner News last week. The thumbnail to the left links to an image, or click here for a .pdf. The original text is copied below. The end product that appeared in the paper is a bit less due to [...]
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Filed under: Books and Magazines, Commercial Beer, In the News