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Rare Beer Tasting V tickets on sale June 16

Monday, June 10th, 2013

Tickets go on sale Sunday — Father’s Day (hint, hint) — for the fifth edition of the Pints for Prostrates Rare Beer Tasting. Once again, the event occurs at the same time as the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. More than 30 breweries from across the country will serve beer at the tasting, held [...]

Ohio’s Fat Head’s bound for Beervana

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

Ohio’s Fat Head’s Brewery, which makes one of America’s most celebrated India Pale Ales, plans to open a brewpub in Portland, Ore., one of America’s most celebrated beer cities.
Co-owner and brewer Matt Cole said Fat Head’s, which already has both a production brewery and a restaurants, signed a deal for a 13,000-square-foot space in the [...]

A map for American Craft Beer Week

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

To celebrate American Craft Beer Week (May 13-19) the Brewers Association has assembled this graphic map of the United States, using logos submitted by breweries in every state. (Click on the map to enlarge it.)

SAVOR heads to NYC in June

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

The Brewers Association has announced that SAVOR: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience will be held June 14-15 in New York City this year.
Washington, D.C. hosted the event the last five years. SAVOR will return to D.C. in 2014, on May 9 and 10.
“Part of our mission as a national, industry association is to [...]

‘Art & Science of Bourbon Barrel Aged Beer’

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

A new video from Full Sail Brewing:

Two Falconer brewing scholarships available

Friday, February 24th, 2012

The Glen Hay Falconer Foundation and Seibel Institute of Technology are offering two full-tuition brewing education scholarships in 2012.
One scholarship is to the World Brewing Academy Web-based Concise Course in Brewing Technology from August to November 2012. The Concise Course is a two-week intensive program that covers every topic critical to successful brewery operations. [...]

Cicerone program celebrates with discounts

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

To celebrate issuing Certified Beer Server certificate number 10,000 the Cicerone Certification Program is offering special 10K promotions.
The move into 5-figures of beer servers comes just four years and 42 days after this first-level exam was first offered to the public in the early days of January 2008.
The special offers:
Certified Beer Server Exam: 1000 [...]