Mike | April 30, 2009
Last weekend I went out to Dallas, Texas for a business trip. I got to stay in a pretty swanky Four Seasons Resort at Las Colinas (home of the Byron Nelson Championship). Shortly after checking in I went downstairs to the hotel bar to wet the whistle. I started off with my old standby Sierra [...]
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Tags: amber ale, black lager, brewery, craft beer, German black lager, Rahr & Sons, schwarzbier, St. Arnold Brewing Company
Mike | April 20, 2009
Hold these two dates on your calendars – Saturday, May 2nd and Friday, June 12th. You don’t want to miss these two events with drinking quality brew as the common denominator.
I’m really stoked about this first outing. Dunedin Brewery will be holding it’s 1st Annual Hoppy Endings IPA Festival on Saturday May 2nd from 7:30-11:30 [...]
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Tags: DIPA, Dunedin Brewery, IPA, Oldsmar Tap House
Mike | April 17, 2009
Last night, I went to see the one-night-only showing of Beer Wars written, directed, and produced by Anat Baron. This was personally a very eye-opening documentary about the never ending battle for market share between craft brewers and the “Big 3″ mega brewers – Anheuser Busch, Miller, and Coors. Hence, the title of the film. [...]
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Tags: American Homebrewer's Association, Anat Baron, Anheuser Busch, Beer Wars, BeerAdvocate, brewing, Charlie Papazian, craft beer, Doghead Fish Brewery, Greg Koch, Jim Koch, Maureen Ogle, Moonshot, New Belgium Brewing, New Century Brewing Company, Sam Adams, Sam Caglione, Stone Brewing, three tier system, Todd Alstrom
Mike | April 13, 2009
A couple of weekends ago, I stumbled onto a nice local event for Cigar City Brewing’s launch party. Try to keep up with my story here. My girlfriend and I were supposed to head to Orlando to see a show, but decided to stay in town (Tampa). We ended up heading to the Oldsmar Tap [...]
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Tags: brewery, Cigar City Brewing, Double Nut Brown Ale, IPA, Mr. Dunderbak's, Oatmeal, Oldsmar Tap House, Rye, taproom, World of Beer