Craft beer sales grow 7% in a year of decreased beer sales for other brewers

From the Brewers Association website: The Brewers Association, the trade association that tabulates production statistics for US breweries, today released 2009 data on the U.S. craft brewing industry. In a year when other brewers saw a slowdown in sales, small and independent craft brewers (see definition)1 saw sales dollars increase...

Small Brewery TV Sitcom Coming to Fox?

Interesting news coming from The Hollywood Reporter (and Beer News) about a new sitcom in the works called Strange Brew, from Will & Grace creators (David Kohan and Mitch Mutchnik) – about a small but successful family-owned brewery and the family’s struggles with working and living together. The sitcom is still...

St. Patrick’s Beer Dinner – Vandiver (Havre de Grace)

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A Good Beer Bar in Ocean City, MD

Would a good beer bar in Ocean City, MD be successful? We posed this question last night on Twitter and received many more replies than expected.  Without going into details of the replies, we want to know what you think. Now just a few thoughts & observations. Ocean City, MD is obviously...

8th Annual Federal Hill Chili Cookoff, Sunday March 14

PLEASE NOTE MOST RECENT DATE CHANGE Once again, the 8th Annual Federal Hill Chili Cookoff will be held at Metropolitan Coffee & Wine Bar on Sunday, March 14 at 5:30 pm on the 2nd floor. If you are interested in entering a chili, please contact Keith Losoya and provide your name...

Dogfish News: International Man Of Mystery Floris Delée Joins Dogfish As Brewmaster

From last night’s Dogfish Head (Milton, DE) press release: Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is pleased to announce that Floris Delee is coming onboard as the Delaware brewery’s Brewmaster. Floris has worked in the brewing industry across the country and around the globe. “We are really proud to have...

The 24 greatest cities in the world for drinking beer

As a proud Baltimorean, this is pretty darn cool. This article, published last week – lists the 24 Greatest Cities in the World for Drinking Beer.  Guess which great city is on that list? And we couldn’t agree more.. Baltimore, Maryland, USA Every city on this list celebrates its beers. To that end,...