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Map of 2012 GABF Medal Winners

Infographic of 2012 Great American Beer Festival medal winners by state.

Last weekend was GABF and instead of being in Denver like you would expect any beer blogger to do we found ourselves in Asheville, NC for our good friends wedding. Certainly not a bad place for a couple of craft beer lovers like us, but obviously the center of the beer universe was focused squarely on Denver. My Facebook feed [...]

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Great Nebraska Beer Fest program: Behind the Scenes

GNBF layouts with notes

For the last four years Nebraska Brewing Company has put on an excellent craft beer festival in Papillion, NE (a suburb of Omaha). The Great Nebraska Beer Fest has grown each year from 20 breweries the first year to over 80 this year. Maria and I had the pleasure of getting to know the owner’s [...]

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Savor 2012

Brian and Maria on the red carpet at Savor.

Our first visit to Washington DC and SAVOR: An American Craft Beer and Food Experience was a complete success. We were able to snag a sweet camping spot at Greenbelt Park, only 1.5 miles from the College Park Metro and about a 30 minute train ride into the city. Luckily, the early summer heat decided [...]

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Omaha Beer Fest 2012

Today marks the first day of a long week packed full of craft beer events, quite possibly the best week of the year for craft beer, next to Craft Brewers Conference and Great American Beer Festival weeks, American Craft Beer week. There are events going on all over the US with Craftbeer.com doing an excellent [...]

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First Annual Kansas Craft Brewers Expo

Special thanks to Chris Stenger for writing a guest post this week about the first ever Kansas Craft Brewers Expo. We were very disappointed to have missed the event this year, but were extremely happy to hear of the event’s successes and will be excited for our much anticipated return to Kansas, reuniting with our [...]

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Meet the Krewe of NuRViticus

Krewe of NuRViticus

Originally founded in January of 2012 this nomadic Krewe of gypsies has quite the unique history that predates each and everyone of them. Millions and millions of years ago our souls were united in an never-ending quest to travel the universe, discover alternative ways to live and partake in the liveliest of rituals which have [...]

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San Diego Craft Beer Week 2011

SDBW at Ballast Point Home Brew Shop

Last week we arrived 4 days into the San Diego Craft beer week, which ran from November 4th—November 13th. There were literally hundreds of events, from local brew pint specials to food pairing events, limited edition releases and total tap takeovers. Most people in SD didn’t really blink at all the events commenting that every [...]

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GABF Week Wrap-up

TRP with our friends from the Lawrence Home Brewers Guild

Our first Great American Beer Fest is in the books and while we were only able to attend the Thursday session I think we got a good feel for it. We were also able to to participate in many of the activities that surround the event and even help out a good cause. So with [...]

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Beer Maps on Maps on Maps

TRP Map 10-01-11

As many of you might know (should know) the primary reason for us starting this website was to map out great beer destinations across the U.S. gathering information from our travels, locals and beer friends. Brewing News is a great newspaper resource that publishes regional quarterlies on craft beer. We used this early on in [...]

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First timers guide to GABF

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The 30th annual Great American Beer Festival is quickly approaching, September 29th—October 1st at the Colorado Convention Center in Downtown Denver. If you haven’t got a ticket yet, I am sorry to say you might be S.O.L. as this years event sold out the first week tickets went on sale, and for good reason, this [...]

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TRP visits with Hanna Laney from Great Divide Brewing

TRP at Great Divide with Hanna Laney

Last week we had the pleasure of visiting with Hanna Laney, Marketing Coordinator (and self proclaimed “word nerd”) from Great Divide Brewing. She has been with the brewery for just over a year and is already making a big impact with their social media. We talked with her a little bit about her efforts with [...]

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Fun with the Fort Collins Home Brewers

A table full of home brew at the Liquid Poets monthly meeting.

Maria and I are members of the Lawrence Home Brewers Guild and have always enjoyed our time hanging out with home brewers so I like to look up home brewers groups when we head into a new area. I was fortunate to find the Liquid Poets when we rolled into Fort Collins for a couple [...]

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