Homebrewing News

Before I delve into this week's beer, let's talk about beer in general to develop some context.

The original Kinect became popular among home-brew, DIY tinkerers but failed to make much of a splash among its actual intended audience, the gamers.

Eugene Shepherd admits he's no beer expert, but he'll tell you the bottle of Eagle Lager he treats himself to every week is a step up from the murky home-brews that had been his preferred tipple.

German beer makers have warned the chancellor Angela Merkel that the controversial method of drilling for natural gas known as fracking could damage Germany's legendry beer industry by contaminating the purity of the water.

Signature wedding cocktails are so last year. Now that craft beer is becoming more and more ubiquitous -- and beer lovers are meeting and marrying over pints -- it's about time a wedding package included the chance to brew your own custom wedding beer.

Mathis, a Brandon resident for nearly the past two decades, called one of his buddies to make plans.

Mystery Brewing Co. won $50,000 to help grow the more than one-year-old Hillsborough brewery in a competition between three small businesses held as part of a new CNBC Prime television series.

WHAT: A fun-filled, outdoor, spring-time event featuring 50 homebrewers serving over 100 of their own beers.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is known for a lot of things - his cheery nature, his self-promoted "quirkiness," his beer-brewing background, his loyalty to his oil and gas donors - but he is not known for being a particularly courageous conviction politician.

If brewers had a patron saint, I always figured it would be Michael Jackson , the author of "The Beer Hunter" who helped to popularize craft brewing and tasting.

Aaren Simoncini started small when he opened Beer'd Brewing in Stonington in late 2012.

Following tour announcements last week by UMO and TimeOut cover stars Shapeshifter , this week sees separate tours by the Phoenix Foundation, the Adults, Fat Freddy's Drop , and Ladi6 scheduled for mid-winter, multi-date runs around the country.

The Milwaukee Brewers now have a beer named in honor of the team's mascot. Brewers officials announced Wednesday that "Bernie's Barrelman Ale" was the name selected by fans for a new Leinenkugel Brewing Company beer available only at the ballpark.

Americans have been brewing beer in their homes since colonial times - both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were home brewers.

A series of bills designed to improve craft brewer access to Texas' multi-billion dollar beer market are on the way to the governor's desk after passing Monday from the House.

Sunday's Brew Riot, combined with near-perfect weather, brought out about 2,500 craft beer lovers to the Bishop Arts District for a fun and relaxing homebrew celebration.

Partner Jason Reimer said Friday that the business, which already includes The Vineyard at Hershey , has been approved by the Liquor Control Board, Word came on the most optimistic end of the timeline, meaning "instead of having beer available by August or early September, I think now we're looking at a grand opening of the brewery around the first ... (more)

And on Sunday Best Place at the historic Pabst Brewery, 901 W. Juneau Ave., proudly celebrates its third anniversary of laying claim to that name.

It's American Craft Beer Week; a "big week for small breweries," the week all true Americans face their favorite brew pub and pledge allegiance to the beer.

Excel, which is the bottler of Ski and makers of an assortment of other sugar cane-flavored soft drinks, began brewing beer last fall.