Interview with Greg Koch CEO of Stone

The Craft Beer rating website Brewpot.com is up!

After what seems like FOREVER Brewpot.com is up and working rather smoothly.  Some of the searching is a bit cumbersome and I recommend typing in what you are looking for and waiting for the drop down box to suggest you what you want.  Also you will need to remove the location because the restaurants haven’t [...]

If you live in Illinois you might want to try some beer with your pizza-beer??

Tom Seefurth has created the worlds first culinary beer, “Mamma Mia Pizza Beer” and its now available in Peoria, IL and throughout the region. I haven’t had a chance to try it but a girl I am dating is flying up that way for a conference, so hopefully she can bring me back some!  My [...]

Jim Koch, founder of Samuel Adams, possibly the nicest man on the planet?

How many companies do you know that when supplies are high in demand, they help their competitors by giving them excess supplies that they have?  This is exactly what founder of Sam Adams Jim Koch is doing and its called the Hops Sharing Program.  As you may already know, there is a huge hops shortage [...]

Big Breweries trying to get smaller, smaller Breweries trying to get bigger!

I wrote an article back about the macrobreweries, namely Anheuser-Busch (AB), Miller and Coors all trying to act smaller with lines of their beer trying to be marketed as craft beer. AB has taken it to a whole new level deciding last month after 111 years that Michelob is now a craft beer! If you [...]

Craft Beer companies push a wide range of flavors

I just read an article talking about brewies, now more than ever, are experimenting with all sorts of adjuncts and flavors that never before would have been possible.  Here is an excerpt: Craft beer connoisseurs push wide range of flavors Some brewers are devising extreme recipes to stretch the definitions even more. Boston-based Samuel Adams, [...]

Beer prices may go up!!!! Agggghhhhh!!!

Here’s a sad article I found today about shortages around the world causing beer prices to go up due to the increase in price of hops.  Here is the devastating article! Tightening supply of hops could mean rising price of local beer BY JOHN BREWER Pioneer Press Article Last Updated: 11/06/2007 11:24:56 PM CST var requestedWidth [...]

Craft beer in Wine Country (Napa Valley)

Hey Guys, Brewpot is doing well. I just got a timeline back from my web developers that the website should be up and functional by Mid December. I will keep you posted on exact dates, as well as possible launch parties/taste testings! If you know my experience with web developers up to this point, as [...]

Beer rating for local brewery

Way to go hometown! If you didn’t know, I live in Atlanta, but lived most of my life in Seacoast, NH (thats new hampshire.. and yes it is a state.. and no its not part of Connecticut… thanks Bangalorian Tech guys) Anyways.. here’s the article Smuttynose earns business award PORTSMOUTH — Representatives of Smuttynose Brewing [...]

Even the Anheuser Busch and the other big guys know the significance of the Craft beer market

I just read a great article today talking about what I was starting to notice: The big guys are making beer and not using their name on the bottles. It is craft beer, but with the distribution channels that all the big guys have, its very easy to get market penetration. Here is some of [...]