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• Sam Adams Announces Mentoring Experience Winner

  

  Image credit: Beerstreetjournal.com Jim Koch of Samuel Adams has long been a proponent of passing along his business knowledge to up-and-coming businesses both... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• ARIA Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Teams with Stillwater Artisanal, Launches...

  

  If the advertising slogans are to be believed, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. So, when the ARIA Resort Casino announced that they would release a... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Beer Vs. Wine, an Infographic

  

  The fine folks over at CompareCamp.com have put out the article and infographic below to highlight a plethora of interesting facts about two of the world’s... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Have a Brew and Get Married at This Year’s Great American Beer Festival

  

  Photo from http://www.kunc.org/post/great-american-beer-festival-shares-love-and-beer Wedding bells are ringing at the Great American Beer festival again this... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• New Belgium Releases New Lips of Faith Brew

  

  Salted chocolate is a real thing. At least is has become one over the past few years. The combination of the sweet, rich milk chocolate mixed with just a few... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Goose Island Hops Things up in New Seasonal IPA

  

  Goose Island Rambler IPA. Image courtesy of Goose Island Brewing Company. The folks at Goose Island have an interesting new seasonal release on the shelves now... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Alewife to Occupy Former Riverside Liquor Space

  

  As Riverside Liquor exits the location it held in Five Points for a larger location in the King Street Beer District, a new concept for Jacksonville moves in... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Oktoberfest Comes to Jacksonville’s Memorial Park

  

  Oktoberfest is breaking out all over Jacksonville over the next few weeks. This week brings the Second Annual Art Walk Oktoberfest (see article here) and the... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Beer Gets Its Own Top Level Internet Domain; .beer

  

  The Internet and craft beer have grown up together. If you think about it, 20 years ago both were still emerging as pivotal forces in the culture of the United... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Art Walk to Host Second Oktoberfest in Downtown Jacksonville

  

  For the second year in a row, downtown Jacksonville will be filled with the rousing sounds of Oompah-pah, the aroma of sizzling bratwurst and the cries of... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Documentary “coming-of-age Tale’ About Craft Beer

  

  The craft beer bug bit Mike Sills hard during a trip to Vermont and visited three outstanding breweries: The Alchemist, Hill Farmstead and Lawson’s Finest... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Oktoberfest 2014 Now in Full Swing

  

  In the Old Country, otherwise known as Bavaria, September brings about the most beloved of all ‘fests; Oktoberfest. Today Oktoberfest is the world’s largest fai... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Bruges, Belgium Brewery to Build Unique Beer Pipeline

  

  In Belgium, beer is practically a religion. By some accounts there are over 90,000 breweries – counting tiny brew pubs and monolithic mega-beer producers — in... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Innis and Gunn Release Two New Warmers for Fall

  

  Scotland is arguably the birth place of beer in the United Kingdom. There are some that hypothesize that the vikings brought the alcoholic staple with them... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Victory Brewing Company Moonglow Weizenbock Now Available

  

  Weizenbock is a rich flavorful German beer style that is very much at home during the autumn season. The style is made with as much as 60% to 70% wheat malt, bu... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Central Michigan University to Offer Fermentation Sciences Certificate

  

  Those seeking a formal education in the art and science of brewing beer will have another choice next fall. Central Michigan University’s College of Science... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Funky Buddha Teams with Celebrity Cruise Lines

  

  Following in the footsteps of Cigar City Brewing Company of Tampa, Fla. that began offering several of its brews on Carnival cruise ships sailing from Florida... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• New Restaurant to Premier Pour My Beer System in Jacksonville

  

  A few days ago I noticed that I received a new follower on the SprBrewCrew Twitter account. The follower was Azucena Corner Deli, a new eatery that will be... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Northeast Florida Beer Cup and Brew at the Zoo Coming This Week

  

  In case you had not noticed, Jacksonville is bursting with craft beer events these days. This week is proof of that with two big events: The Northeast Florida... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Battery Acid for Alcohol? It Happened Not So Long Ago in South Africa

  On the latest installment of Yahoo Travel’s “A Broad, Abroad,” Editor in Chief Paula Froelich sits down and drinks the strongest brew in South Africa with the... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2014 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK