Archive for the 'Just for fun' Category

Win a trip to ‘Brew Your Cask Off’ festival

Monday, January 31st, 2011

All About Beer Magazine is giving away a trip for two to the Brew Your Cask Off festival March 5 in Atlanta.
Sweetwater Brewing and the magazine have rounded up 80 guest brewers, each creating a one-of-a-kind cask ale and competing to win either the “Best Cask Ale” or the “Biggest Loser.”
AABM asks contest entrants to [...]

Local ale returns to Jefferson’s Monticello

Friday, January 28th, 2011

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, [...]

Grolsch’s seasonal ’swingtop symphony’

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

This one really belongs at Real Beer for the Holidays but that blog isn’t set up to accommodate videos.

Happy holidays. If you go to the Grolsch website there’s a chance to win a case of beer.

Homebrewers Association giving away GABF trip

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

The American Homebrewers Association is giving away a trip to the Great American Beer Festival. Register at HomebrewersAssociation.org before Nov. 30 to enter in the sweepstakes.
The contest winner receives airfare for two, three nights of hotel accommodations and two all-session passes to Great American Beer Festival 2011 in Denver, Sept. 29-Oct. 1. [...]

Sierra Nevada anniversary party in hop field

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Sierra Nevada Brewing has announced plans for its 30th anniversary party, Nov. 15 at the brewery’s hop field.
Let’s cut right to the invitation:
Come and celebrate this American craft beer renaissance at the Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Party in our very own estate-hops field.
The party kicks off at 4 pm with sampling of 30 beers including [...]

Chimay/Schneider looking for web/social guru

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

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 [...]

Samuel Adams picks LongShot winners

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Homebrewers from Georgia and Illinois were the big winners in Samuel Adams annual LongShot American Homebrew Contest – which this year focused only for beers that would be entered in Category 23 of a sanctioned homebrew competition.

Georgia resident Richard Roper (right) with Friar Hop Ale and Rodney Kibzey (left) of Illinois with Blackened [...]