by: Jon Leyba – Denver TapHunter
The Keystone Bluegrass and Beer Fest was a blast. The cool, rainy weather turned out to be perfect—generally just a drizzle with one brief downpour—for an afternoon of high-altitude drinking. Ski town charm, big pours (3 ounces; I’m accustomed to the single ounce pours at GABF!), and great company (my [...] [...more]
Tickets Now on Sale for the 16th Annual San Diego Festival of Beer Returning to Downtown San Diego Friday, September 10 — All Proceeds Benefit Local Cancer Charities
San Diego’s oldest and largest craft beer festival is a fundraiser for San Diego Professionals Against Cancer. In June, SDPAC presented a $100,000 check to Rady Children’s Hospital-San [...] [...more]
Happy belated Party Day everyone! Yesterday was the celebration of Belgium’s Independence also know as Feestdag or, “Party Day.” On July 21st 1831, after all the fights and riots, Belgium attained its freedom and to this we drink! If you want to know more about it, you are going to have to do your own research [...] [...more]
It has been a great 11 days of Beer Week debauchery. I met a ton of new people, drank 42 new beers ( I kept close track), and found a lot of really great bars and restaurants, most located in Northern Liberties and Olde City. All the money I spent was on food and beer. [...] [...more]
On Saturday 6/5/10, I got the chance to take a mini vacation around the world and taste beers from all over the globe in one building. The International Great Beer Expo was held at the Philadelphia Cruise Terminal at the Navy Yard this past weekend and the event had a nice display of beer on [...] [...more]
Smoked beers and BBQ, what else could you ask for on a Sunday afternoon? It was hot, humid and windy with a chance of rain but that didn’t stop anybody from coming down to the event. The event was held at Yard’s Brewery in Philadelphia. It was an event for the dark smoked beer drinkers [...] [...more]
Last night I had the opportunity to be one of the first people to eat at Smokin’ Betty’s Restaurant on 116 South 11th Street for the Philly Beer Week Dinner. The restaurant is offering the dinner June 4th-13th from 5:00PM-10:0oPM. The price for this dinner is an unbeatable $35 per person. Smokin’ Betty’s has the [...] [...more]
May is coming close to the end and Philly Beer Week is getting closer. Starting June 4th with Opening Tap Night at the Independence Visitor Center, some starting the night before, Philly is going to have 10 FULL Beer Days. I can’t even begin list all of the events going on but, I can tell [...] [...more]
Last night I had the pleasure in joining Iron Abbey Gastro Pub with Unibroue Brewery for a fantastic beer dinner. It was a paired 6 course dinner by Executive Chef Jonathan Lee of Iron Abbey and 6 tastings of Unibroue Beer presented by Jay Jones of Unibroue. Let me tell you, if you haven’t been [...] [...more]
Wow, can’t believe May is already here… which means that it’s about time to bring on some awesome new people to join us for the summer months. We are looking for craft & micro beer loving, social network savvy interns to help us connect craft beer fans to local beer hideouts and bars in [...] [...more]