Grizzly Growler

Always on the lookout for something new and unique, I stumbled on Haand Bryggeriet’s Dark Force, Imperial Double Wheat Stout at The Good Food Store. The name sounds impressive, and perhaps a little too much so. But no, this beer lives up to most of its name.Using a wheat and lots of dark roasted malts [...]

Check out America’s most remote brewery. Lang Creek Brewing Co. has some interesting things going on. If you can get there, do so. It’s well worth the trip. Prost, GG

Each is a great beer city with individual influences. Denver, of course, has the Great American Beer Festival, while Seattle holds its own with such renowned breweries as Pike Brewing Co., and Portland, well, Portland has more breweries within its city limits than any other city on earth. The reason for the post is that [...]

Where Tim drinks Bitterroot Brewing Co.’s Saison and talks about the famous French farmhouse-style ale. Prost, GG

To steal a title from Big Sky’s beer education page, beer betty’s are the topic of today’s post. Why? Well, women usually have a unique take on any given subject. I should know, my wife always has a different take on whatever subject we’re discussing. We had some good friends in town this week. They [...]

Turns out quite a bit more than just, “Could I have a shot with my beer?” The 4th Annual Great American Distillers Festival is happening right now in Portland, Oregon, and one of the things you can do at this festival is attend a tasting of three modern American craft whiskeys and the beers that [...]

Hello everyone, I’d like to introduce you to Beaver Creek Brewing Co. from Wibaux, Montana. Chances are you might not get out to this brewery that often, but in case you’re in that part of the country, look them up, they’ve got an exciting lineup of new beers. But I’ll let Jim tell you about [...]

This article in the Denver Post highlights the desperation of the big breweries to catch the fast-growth craft beer industry. They are failing badly. Here’s why: Craft beer is a relationship between brewer and beer lover. Big breweries lost that relationship when they went after market share. Craft beer doesn’t skimp on flavor for production. [...]

We all know things are changing rapidly out there. People are brewing 4,000-year-old Chinese beer recipes and putting lychee fruit in beer for cryin’ out loud. Because the beer world is changing as rapidly as the regular world, I feel as though I must adapt. I already do a lot of video on this site, [...]

I couldn’t go very long without including my homeland. Ukraine, with its vast wheat and barley fields is not only the breadbasket of Europe, it is a brewer’s paradise. It is also the place I watched the last Olympics. Every night of my internship at the Kyiv Post, we’d put the paper to bed and [...]