The Horse Brass Pub announced today that it would be closed for regular business on Sunday (Feb. 13) for a wake to honor its owner Don Younger, who died last week.
Younger was one of America’s pioneering publicans, and is credited with helping turn Portland and the state of Oregon into “Beervana.” He operated the Horse [...]
The finalist have been chosen to compete for Wynkoop Brewing Company’s 2011 Beerdrinker of the Year award.
The finals are Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. at Wynkoop Brewing in Denver. The event is open to the public and admission is free. The competitors are:
* James Clark, a Springfield, Va., homebrewer, beer traveler and beer ambassador. [...]
Don Younger, the pioneering Portland publican who opened the legendary Horse Brass Pub in 1976, has died.
Younger died early this morning, a day after John Foyston sent shockwaves through the American beer community by reporting Younger was gravely ill death due to “multiple health problems triggered by slipping and breaking a shoulder last week. He’s [...]
The Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center in Monticello is teaming with a Virginia brewery to produce Monticello Reserve Ale.
Nearby Starr Hill Brewery will brew the beer. The partners say the recipe, which will include wheat and corn, is based on what was consumed regularly at Jefferson’s Monticello home. Brewing beer was among the plantation’s important activities, [...]
Tour de Fat, New Belgium Brewing’s “traveling carnival of all things bicycle,” raised $331,428 for non-profit friends in 2010, which is up nearly 20% from 2009. The tour attracted 70,250 cycling and beer fans celebrants in 13 cities. From the press release:
Tour de Fat is free to attend, but money raised from the sale [...]
Drinkers at Oktoberfest in Munich consumed a record amount of beer during the festival’s 200th jubilee celebration.
About 6.4 million visitors — well below the high mark of 7.1 million in 1985 — drank seven million liters (1.6 million gallons) of beer. They also ate 117 oxen, 59 calves and thousands of chickens.
Manneken-Brussels Imports, which represents Chimay and G. Schneider & Sohn in the United States, is looking for a website developer/social media guru to join its staff on a fulltime basis.
MBI is based in Austin, Texas, but the employee may work from home. The job includes full benefits.
Lisa Hollingsworth, COO, says the importer wants an employee [...]