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SaveOnBrew.com, which dubs itself as the “world’s only beer price-search engine,” has this crazy infographic up about how much beer Americans will consume on Super Bowl Sunday – 50 million cases.

Bonfire Brewing out of Eagle, Colo., has jumped on the Tim Tebow bandwagon with its “Tebrew” barley wine. The logo features “a man crouching as if in prayer but holding up a mug of beer, with the tagline ‘The Sunday Sipper.’ ” Is there anything Tebow can’t do? No. Here’s the story via the Associated [...]

I used to walk around the concourse at Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium during Dynamo Kyiv soccer games thinking about how lucky I was to be doing my initial journalism internship in a country on the brink of revolution. It’s every reporter’s dream. At least it is for those reporters who got into this to be foreign [...]

A gimmick, yes, but an interesting one at that. The folks from ESPN are running a World Cup of Beer, pitting one malty beverage against another from all 32 nations represented. Here’s the first tier, where France’s Kronenbourg and Mexico’s Dos Equis advance, largely on the strength of television ads. They beat out South Africa’s [...]

If you’re watching the Super Bowl in good Ol’ snowy Missoula Montana, then this post is for you. Since the downfall of my 49ers a decade ago now, I haven’t been as interested in the Big Game for more than the commercials. There have been a few good Super Bowls in the meantime, but it [...]

If I had to pick just one beer for tonight’s FCS championship game between the Montana Grizzlies and the Villanova Wildcats, that would suck. Luckily, I can pick as many as I want. So, with that in mind, my first pick for tonight’s game would be… Well, the weather in Chattanooga is nasty with lots [...]

Having grown up in the Pac-10, I’m used to thinking about bowl games this time of year. And my Ducks are going to going to the Rose Bowl, so all is right with the world. But I’m sitting here watching the Montana Grizzlies play Appalachian State in the semi-final game of the Football Championship Subdivision [...]

Since the last beer post was not beer related. This one will be. Here are my three local picks for tonight’s Griz/Spider game. The order does not represent importance, as each of these beer can hold their own against the others. The Griz had a strong year. Their one loss to Weber State was avenged [...]

A warning: This post is not beer related. Switching your allegiance in football, as in life, is not an easy thing. My father sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco as an immigrant fleeing persecution in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Therefore, he is and always will be a San Francisco 49ers fan. Had he [...]