Mar 072010
Academy Awards Craft Beer Drinking Game

This is the first Beer Nation drinking game and I would love to hear how many of you could actually get your hands on all of these brews.

When a winner pulls out a prepared speech, drink a beer from Speakeasy Brewery
When a winner thanks God, drink a beer from Holy Brew in Leesburg, Virginia
When [...]

Feb 222010
International All-Star Collaboration Brewpub Coming to NYC

The dream team of brewing is coming to New York!  At this past weekend’s Extreme Beer Festival, Vinny Cilurzo of Russian River Brewing and Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery announced their collaboration with two famous Italian brewers – Leonardo Di Vincenzo of Birra del Borgo and Teo Musso of Birrificio Le Baladin – in the opening of a new brewpub on the [...]

Aug 182009
Beer Snobs Can Eat It!  (Or Drink It . . . ?)

Bravo to The Washington City Paper for pointing out an unfortunate dichotomy in the community of craft beer drinkers: the Beer Snobs v. the Beer Geeks. The City Paper quotes Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head saying:
There’s beer geeks and there’s beer snobs, and I’m a card-carrying, dyed-in-the-wool member of the beergeek community. How I differentiate [...]

Aug 142009
Collaboration of Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head, How Exciting!

Somebody pinch me!  Is this for real?  Dogfish Head has issued a press release announcing a collaboration with Sierra Nevada (and it’s not April 1st!).  The East Coast/West Coast duo will join forces to create two original brews:  the first is a 10% ABV Strong Ale (wouldn’t expect anything less from Dogfish Head’s brewmaster Sam [...]