Davik Brewing

1. Trip Series:
New Belgium and Elysian are planning to collaborate on at least four
brews, the first of which was a Belgian IPA called Trippel IPA.
2. Midnight Project:
Terrapin and Left Hand released their second collaboration in September,
called Depth Charge, an Imperial espresso milk stout.
3.  Collaboration Not Litigation:
This one has been on the market for a while, [...]

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Craft Breweries Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head will release two collaborative beers. Limb & Life, a draft-only beer, debuted in October 2009, while Life & Limb will debut in 24 ounce bottles and on limited draft in November 2009.
The two beers are part of the growing “collaborations” among craft brewers. The beers are “dedicated to [...]

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Brown ale was once the beer of the British masses. In the late 1700s, fancier folks began to favor the newfangled pale ales. (Pale malt was more expensive to process than wood-fired darker malt, making pale ale a bit of a luxury drink.) But low-alcohol brown ales were perfect for fueling long days of hard [...]

Filed under: Articles on October 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A new brewing guide has substance with froth!
Considering beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the world, there are still precious few books on the subject.
Guides to breweries and their beers - technical tomes aimed at the advanced home brewer or craft-brewer market, are growing in number, as well as the usual jokey, blokey [...]

Filed under: Articles on October 16th, 2009 | No Comments »

Category: 1 American-Style Cream Ale or Lager -24 Entries
Gold: Milwaukee’s Best, Miller Brewing Co., Golden, CO
Silver: Hamm’s, Miller Brewing Co., Golden, CO
Bronze: Red Dog, Miller Brewing Co., Golden, CO
Category: 2 American-Style Wheat Beer -19 Entries
Gold: County Seat Wheat, Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant, Topeka, KS
Silver: Shredders Wheat, Barley Brown’s Brew Pub, Baker City, OR
Bronze: Double [...]

Filed under: Microbrewing on October 14th, 2009 | No Comments »

Category: 7 Specialty Beer -21 Entries
Gold: Chateau Jiahu, Dogfish Head Brewery, Milton, DE
Silver: Palo Santo Marron, Dogfish Head Brewery, Milton, DE
Bronze: Drunken Angel, Rock Bottom Brewery - Chicago, Chicago, IL
Category: 8, Rye Beer -21 Entries
Gold: Crazy Jackass Ale, Great American Restaurants, Centreville, VA
Silver: Blue Point Brewing Co. RastafaRye, Blue Point Brewing Co., Patchogue, NY
Bronze: Hoss, [...]

Filed under: Microbrewing on October 13th, 2009 | No Comments »

Category: 13 Out of Category – Traditionally Brewed Beer -82 Entries
Gold: W ‘10, Widmer Brothers Brewing, Portland, OR
Silver: Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse, Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, NY
Bronze: S1NIST0R Black Ale, 10 Barrel Brewing Co., Bend, OR
Category: 14 Gluten Free Beer -10 Entries
Gold: Celia Framboise, The Alchemist, Waterbury, VT
Silver: Redbridge, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., Saint Louis, MO
Bronze: Celia IPA, The Alchemist, [...]

Filed under: Microbrewing on October 12th, 2009 | No Comments »

Category: 19 Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer -45 Entries
Gold: Bourbonic Plague, Cascade Brewery Co. LLC, Portland, OR
Silver: Vlad the Imp Aler, Cascade Brewery Co. LLC, Portland, OR
Bronze: Phruit Phunk, Nodding Head Brewing Co., Philadelphia, PA
Category: 20 Aged Beer -32 Entries
Gold: Horn Dog Vintage 2007, Flying Dog Brewery, Frederick, MD
Silver: St. Bob’s Imperial Stout, IL Vicino [...]

Filed under: Microbrewing on October 11th, 2009 | No Comments »

Category: 25 Bohemian Style Pilsener -39 Entries
Gold: Vermont Lager, Otter Creek Brewing/Wolaver’s Organic Ales, Middlebury, VT
Silver: Gordon Biersch Czech Pilsner, Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Group, Broomfield, CO
Bronze: Bell’s Lager Beer, Bell’s Brewery, Inc., Galesburg, MI
Category: 26 Munich Style Helles -31 Entries
Gold: Saint Arnold Summer Pils, Saint Arnold Brewing Co., Houston, TX
Silver: Where the Helles Bill?, [...]

Filed under: Microbrewing on October 10th, 2009 | No Comments »

Category: 31 Vienna Style Lager -25 Entries
Gold: Vienna Lager, Chuckanut Brewery, Bellingham, WA
Silver: Vienna Lager, Devils Backbone Brewing Co., Roseland, VA
Bronze: Clipper City Marzhon Vienna Lager, Clipper City Brewing Co., Baltimore, MD
Category: 32 German Style Märzen -45 Entries
Gold: Dogtoberfest, Flying Dog Brewery, Frederick, MD
Silver: Reines Marzen, Dry Dock Brewing Co., Aurora, CO
Bronze: Rocktoberfest, Rock Bottom [...]

Filed under: Microbrewing on October 9th, 2009 | No Comments »