Happy Birthday, America! Today is the day to celebrate 232 years of independence from Britain. What does this mean? Well, really, it usually equates to starting a few fires, the barbecue and some fireworks, while cracking some cold beers and enjoying the prime of summer at the head of a three-day weekend. Sounds great, and it is! So, for the Fourth, I have a few suggestions, in fact six, of beers y...

Baron Brewing from Seattle will be releasing a new Brothers Grimm Series beer in one week. The Rumpelstiltskin rauchdoppelbock has a blast of smoked malt that is rounded by asweet dark body. It has a deep-amber to black brown color with a thick tan head. There is a rich and complex smoky maltiness in the aroma that shows subtleties of toffee and caramel. A touch of roast mixed with the beechwood sm...

Hopworks Urban Brewery is pleased to announce the release of a new brew to kick off Oregon Craft Brewers Month. A traditional Bavarian style hefeweizen with notes of clove and banana (not your brothers hefeweizen) brewed in anticipation of the Intergalactic Washoe Tournament to be held at H.U.B. on July 6. Wonder what Washoes is and how to play? Click HERE.Play the game that's sweeping up and down...

South, according to Fort George brewers, is an extremely rich and complex beer, with fruity notes of raspberry, yet dry. This is the brewery's summer Belgian-style ale, which is being released in conjunction with Oregon Craft Beer Month.Made with 100% French pilsner malt, brewers fermented the beer with Belgian Wit yeast, aged half in Adelsheim French Oak Pinot Noir barrels, half on 80 pounds of fr...

Photo by Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg NewsAnheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV told investors on Friday June 27 that his company has a gameplan from brand building: Cost cutting.The suggestion is that InBev's £23.3 billion ($46 billion/$65-per-share) bid on Thursday for the company is too low. A-B executives have claimed to have devised a plan to cut around $1 billion of costs from the company between...