MORNING FOAM FOR AUG. 10 2016: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom gunk. …
Former soldier stationed at Fort Lewis, who learned to homebrew in Olympia, founded JDub’s Brewing Co. in Sarasota, Florida. “I was buying my homebrewing ingredients in the back of some dude’s house in Olympia and thought that was f—ing awesome.” What is life really like for the founder of a small and independent brewery? JDub held nothing back. …
New Order has brewed a beer. The band has teamed up with Moorhouse’s Brewery of Burnley in Lancashire, UK to create a new craft beer, Stray Dog, after a song on their 2015 Music Complete album.
Portland’s St. Johns Neighborhood is beginning to become a haven of craft beer locations, including Royale Brewing. Today, the brewery will release its latest beer in its hop forward session beers with Mr. Session: Chinook.
The huge new Burnside bridge housing construction — The Yard at Northeast 3rd Avenue and Burnside in Portland will be the home to new brewery taproom FERMENT. Owner/Brewer Dan Peterson and his wife Jennifer hope to open Ferment this Fall of 2016 as a beer lounge on the 5th floor mezzanine level of The Yard.
Craft Brew Alliance has officially opened its new Widmer Brothers innovation brewery, relocating the small-batch operation from a cramped corner of Portland’s Moda Center to the company’s primary brewing facility about one mile away.
Here’s the dirty secret about most brewery collaborations: They’re not really about the beer. Not primarily, anyway. Sure, a beer—usually a pretty good one—is the most tangible result of brewer-to-brewer mashups. But the main goal of a collaboration is usually much simpler. They’re really just an excuse for brewers to hang out.
Dial LA Beer Hotline at (1-855-LA-BEERS) and you’ll be routed directly to Hal Mooney, the owner/operator of the popular LA Beer Hop craft beer bus tours. Mooney mans the phones from 10 a.m. to midnight daily, taking calls about everything from opening dates for new taprooms around the city to what beer pairs best with cigarettes (seriously).
