Event Preview | Science on Tap

Science is the cornerstone to brewing beer. Although many of our craft beer events are centered around performers or special beer releases, it’s nice to see these gatherings celebrating the study of our favorite beverages. That’s the goal of “Science on Tap,” an outdoor festival for educating beer novices and aficionados alike on beer chemistry. And there’s no better place to have this event than at the heart of Virginia’s largest craft beer community, our capital Richmond. Read More

PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | May 4th, 2016

TICKET ALERT: Avery’s Sour Fest tix go on sale this week! Don’t sleep on this; they sell out in just minutes!

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2016 Chicago Beer Classic’s Pour List

Chicago’s largest beer festival always brings out a great variety of breweries and their beers. Once called the American Beer Classic, the Chicago Beer Classic, put on by Red Frog Events, features nearly 100 breweries. While many are from the Chicagoland area, breweries in attendance will range from both the West and East coasts and everything inbetween. Read More

The Brewtography Project Kickstarter Launches with Host of Events

Colorado breweries are joining together this month to support Discovering Colorado Breweries, a photographic essay about the craft beer industry captured through the lens of one man’s camera, The Brewtography … Read More

PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | April 27th, 2016

Perrin Brewing Launches in Colorado, tons of beer releases, a beer dinner or two, a bRUNch session, BrüFrou, firkins, a Ratio Session with Cursive, Big Choice and City Star celebrate their … Read More

Event Preview | Rocktown Beer & Music Festival Spring 2016 Edition

Going to a beer festival is a major step for most craft beer fans who are looking to fully immerse themselves into the culture. Where the booze is flowing and the music … Read More

St. Charles, Mo. Debuts First Ever Craft Beer Week

According to the legends passed down from beer drinker to beer drinker, somebody somewhere supposedly once called St. Charles County a “craft beer desert.” Now I don’t know who that … Read More

SweetWater 420 Fest | Mouthwatering Beer and Cheese Pairings

The 3-day long SweetWater 420 Festival in Atlanta has become a celebration of music, Mother Earth and Georgia’s largest brewery.

Tucked in between the two larger music stages, you’ll find the SweetWater Experience tent, where beer education — and special one-offs that you often won’t taste anywhere else – live. Home brew sessions, visits from hop farmers, and Q&As with SweetWater Co-Founder and Chairman Freddy Bensch are featured, but the most popular event each year is the beer and cheese pairing.

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Ratio + Crooked Stave + PorchDrinking TOMORROW at Avanti F&B

Game of Thrones Season 6 may be debuting Sunday, and the Rocky Mountain region might have gotten rocked last weekend by a late season snow storm, but don’t be fooled, … Read More

Event Preview | Austin Burning CAN (Not Just A) Beer Festival

Originally based in Colorado, Oskar Blues Brewery announced plans to open up a third brewery in Austin in Mid-May — we couldn’t be more excited to have a piece of OB in Texas. In celebration, Oskar Blues is hosting a pair of down-home, music-centric experiences for Austinites this month. OB’s music roots and its passion for the outdoors, paired with their big & bold brews, are the perfect fit for Austin (Keep Austin Weird.) 4/20 marked one of the many celebration events scheduled for this week/weekend.  Read More

PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | April 20th, 2016

Denver PorchDrinkers! Have we got a week mapped out for you?! For those fans of terpenes that are celebrating the green holiday today, we have a list of some things … Read More

Event Recap | River North Beer Fest

Beer – the elixir of life, a delicious treat and the ultimate unifier. No event has ever invoked this more than the River North Beer Fest. The beer fest was split … Read More

Golden Road Brewing | Pints & Pierogi (Grand Central Market)

Golden Road Brewery is named as a tribute to the Grateful Dead’s song The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion.” If they had a motto, I believe they would take inspiration from a quote by the great Jerry Garcia said:  “our strong suit is what we do…” Golden Road opened their newest tasting location in the wonderfully eclectic and diverse Grand Central Market. Join them for a pint and a pierogi, and you will certainly know that their strong suit is everything they do.

I found myself in Los Angeles on a rainy Friday afternoon and I was lucky enough to experience the sights, sounds and experience of Golden Road and their newest location in the Grand Central Market.

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Event Preview | Odell Resurrects Small Batch Festival

Odell Brewing Company last hosted Small Batch Festival in 2012, and while the event was an amazing success, the brewery has been quite busy in the years since — They expanded their footprint (Iowa and Texas,) updated their seasonal lineup (Brombeere here, Double Pilsner gone,) released a handful of new bombers (such as Brazzle and Pina Agria,) created a seasonal variety pack (Montage,) and completed brewery construction. Having accomplished so much the past few years, Odell is ready to bring back the Small Batch Festival and hopes to make it an annual event. Adam D’Antonio from Odell said “production comes first and festivals second. We didn’t want to bring Small Batch back until we were ready and could do it right.” Read More

PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | April 13th, 2016

We have so many events this week. From every part and parcel of the craft beer cohort. Seriously. We got Oranges, Iron Maiden, Cupcakes, Beer Spa, Juicy Haze-Off!, Anti-Haze tapping, … Read More

Chicago’s Largest Beer Festival Returns As Chicago Beer Classic

Once billed as the American Beer Classic, Chicago’s largest beer festival returns in May, but with a brand new name. Now re-branded as the Chicago Beer Classic, the Red Frog Events run festival returns to Soldier Field on May 7.

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Event Preview | Fieldwork Brewing Anniversary Weekend

Fieldwork Brewing is a Berkeley-based brewery committed to quality and freshness, that has taken the Bay Area by storm. Their beers are some of the most aromatic and balanced hoppy beers that you will ever have. The vast beer array of beers Fieldwork offers are truly unique and forever changing. The draft list may be completely different a week later.

Having been open for a year and exponentially growing in popularity, Fieldwork Brewing has reason to celebrate for three days. Co-founder and head brewer Alex Tweet stated, “in my eyes the anniversary is to celebrate our customers. We honest to god have the best customers I have ever seen in this industry, and the anniversary is hopefully going to be a fun weekend for them to celebrate what they helped build. If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t be in business.”

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PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | April 6th, 2016

It’s hard to not be a Lothario of all things beer in this city. There is so much going on; all the time. It’s hard to stay loyal yet try … Read More

GIVEAWAY | Brewed Food Revolution Embarks on National Tour

A food and beer revolution is primed to sweep the nation. No I’m not talking about food and beer pairing dinners, nor am I referencing cooking with beer. This runs … Read More

Event Preview | Third Annual Festival of the Angry Bear

Northern Michigan practices a winter amnesia that convinces us November through March wasn’t all that bad. It’s moronic and ignorant and we buy it in bulk and then we stay here. By June or July, rarely any of us can remember what the official first day of spring would have been, whether it was mid-April or late-March, or that one person who reminds us February once hit 60. That person is an optimist and Machiavellian.

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