MobCraft – the world’s first crowdsourced brewery

An interesting release hit our inbox today – “The World’s First Crowdsourced Brewery.”  Not Kickstarted or crowd-funded. But crowdsourced. How? MobCraft solicits beer ideas from…

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Last minute beer gift idea number 3: Beer Books

Give the gift of knowledge. Or entertainment. Today I want to provide some recommendations for beer books, which always make great gifts for literate beer…

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Lowercase Brewing & the brewery boom in South Park

We visited one of Seattle’s newest breweries a few weeks ago: Burdick Brewing, which opened a couple months ago in the South Park neighborhood (read…

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Last minute beer gift idea number 2: Beer Club

Really, it’s all any beer lover wants: beer. Back in the mid-90s, I was contacted by a company that wanted to give me a membership…

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Last minute beer gift idea number 1: iPhone Bottle Opener

Yep, this is my obligatory Beer Gift Guide. Actually, I’m doing mine a bit differently this year. Every idea that I share qualifies as a…

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Drink beer to support clean water this Thursday

This Thursday you have two opportunities to contribute to the preservation of our clean water sources. All you have to do is drink beer. A…

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