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Craft Brew Industry Continues to Gain Momentum, As If You Didn’t Know Already!

Things are looking up and up for the craft brew industry! Earlier today, Beernews.org reported on some of the key points made at a Power Hour session put on by the Brewers Association. Among those points were references to the amount of business that has increased over 2009 and into the beginning of 2010 including [...]

New York Times Rounds Up Some Belgians

Only a relatively small fraction of the posts on the New York Times‘ The Pour blog have anything to do with craft beer – but the fact that a media outlet as far-reaching as the Times even covers the topic regularly is undoubtedly a positive sign for the industry.
Yesterday, writer Eric Asimov wrote about a [...]

Congress Got This One Right!

Beer has been around since…well…forever and a half. America has been an established country for over 200 years. Though beer has been around a lot longer than the good ol’ USA itself, craft beer has been embraced substantially by more and more brew loving Americans every year over the past three decades. In fact, craft [...]

Setting Craft Brew Apart From Everyone Else

We here at Brewnanza are always searching the web to find and bring the latest in brewery news and happenings. Aside from all the delectable brew releases (did someone say O’Dark:30?), we also seek out and study pieces on market trends and strategies to further enhance our craft beer industry knowledge. While perusing the good [...]

Beer Serving Robot, Need I Say More?

Things you can’t live without: the internet, your cell phone, air, beer (duh) and now a robot to serve that beer.
A couple guys from Middlesex University blessed the world with their invention, a “Heineken Bot,” during the Kinetica Art Fair in London.  This little beauty roams around a party aimlessly waiting for you to wave [...]

SF Beer Week Starts Now

February is a great month for craft beer lovers in the Bay Area. Not only is it Strong Beer Month, but today marks the kickoff of the second annual San Francisco Beer Week. Run by the SF Brewer’s Guild, the 10-day-long festival includes a bevy of events, starting (in about an hour!) with the Opening [...]

Strong Beer Month is Upon Us

For the last eight years, February has consistently been a  wonderful time of the year for beer loving San Franciscans. It is during this magical time that Strong Beer Month occurs, a time for craft brew imbibers to sit down at two of the City’s favorite brew locales and enjoy twelve wonderful pints of high [...]

BeerVoice: Bite-Sized Beer Reviews. Watch out, BeerAdvocate/RateBeer?

Looks like someone’s been paying attention to, oh, I dunno, the entire internet’s general preference for keeping things short and simple:

BeerVoice is a new competitor to the BeerAdvocates and RateBeers of the world. These guys opt to take the Twitter route, though, keeping things short and to the point with micro-reviews and a micro-presentation.
If these [...]

Wilco Tango Foxtrot – Lagunitas’ Answer to its 2009 Correction Ale

A couple weeks ago, Lagunitas Brewing posted a somewhat cryptic message on their Twitter stating the name of their upcoming new brew, Wilco Tango Foxtrot (saying WTF is so much funner though), yet not much else info was given. Fortunately for us, Beernews has helped clear up the some of the details.
WTF, indeed. As [...]

Followup: Sierra Nevada Names Next Collaboration Brew – Fritz and Ken’s Ale

It looks like the collab between Sierra Nevada and Anchor Brewing is going to be on the darkside with a higher than normal ABV:
The label reads, “Fritz Maytag, owner of San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing Company, is regarded as the founding father of the craft brewing movement. Frtiz agreed to guest brew this very special ale [...]