If you read the end of the year reports for any major beer producer, the song remains the same: 2009 was a challenging and complicated year in the beer industry, stemming from a depressed economic environment, tightening credit markets, and continuing cost pressures. Overall, beer sales in the United States were down 2.2 percent, a [...]
Craft beer is an amazing thing that we too often take for granted. For many younger drinkers, there has never been a time when they couldn’t buy a pint or sixer of craft beer. The selection may have been limited and its availability far less than today, but it was still there, creating a whole [...]
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Quiet month around here at BeerScribe.com. I’ve spent most of my time editing the galleys of my book, which will be published in August (2010), and doing assorted legal work. I’ve also been preparing (in a very general sense) for an upcoming 10-day trip to England (London, Oxford, and Dover for the 17th White Cliffs [...]
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