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Avery Brewing returns to Northern California
Two years after it pulled out of the Northern California market, Colorado’s Avery Brewing is finally coming back. The company announced this week that it would partner with distributor DBI Beverage to...
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More on Beer, Cider, and Spirits conference
Kevin Lynch, center, with Lagunitas Brewing, pours samples of India Pale Ale and Brown Shugga during the Sonoma County Beer, Cider and Spirits Conference in Santa Rosa on Tuesday. Connor Jay photo It...
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More on Napa Point Brewing
Napa Point's new Brewski Bus One of the interesting things about writing about the beer scene is how little of what we wind up talking about is the technical end of beer – what hops, what water, what...
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Petaluma Hills hits the beer market
Two weeks in and Sonoma County’s newest “picobrewery” (a fancy way of saying really, really small brewery), Petaluma Hills Brewing, is off to a strong start, owner JJ Jay says. Since getting the final...
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HenHouse poised for huge expansion in deal with Petaluma Hills
Fresh off of a gratifying mention in the New York Times and a featured spot in a beer-oriented documentary by Brew Age, Petaluma’s small but mighty HenHouse Brewing is on a bit of a roll. The big...
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Happy Lager Day
Before moving to Northern California some years ago, my wife and I lived in Philadelphia for about seven years. From a beer drinker’s perspective, Philly is like a theme park; Pennsylvania may have...
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Sonoma breweries clean up on best IPA list
The beer-savvy folks over at the website Thrillist have decided to come up with their list of the “definitive” IPAs (not double or triples, mind you, just the plain ol’ IPA) and, perhaps not...
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So you think you can brew?
The lineup for San Francisco Beer Week is shaping up nicely, with a bunch of North Bay events on the schedule (not even counting the coincident release of Pliny the Younger, set for Feb. 7 at Russian...
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Lagunitas Chicago cranks up at last
The new Lagunitas brewery in Chicago. Photo by, and courtsey of, Tony Magee. The long-awaited Lagunitas brewery in Chicago is expected to start brewing its first beers this morning, company CFO Leon...
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There is in journalism a concept known as “burying the lead,” which means to put the biggest news somewhere down in the middle of a story rather than up top, where it belongs. And I did that exact...
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