by DJ Spiess | Feb 7, 2012 | Beer, Featured
Starting a new brewery can be cost prohibitive. Buying equipment, renting a space, navigating the permitting fees, and buying supplies can quickly make your new adventure a non-starter. Finding investors can be quite difficult and they would most likely want a...
by DJ Spiess | Oct 23, 2011 | Beer, Featured
Here’s some of the better photos from this year’s Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado. If you don’t see your picture here, you might look at all of the photos on the flickr page. All in all, there’s 189 pictures from this...
by DJ Spiess | May 19, 2011 | Beer, industry
Remember back in 2008, when Samuel Adams was recalled because of glass chips in their beer? Yeah, I forgot about it too. According to a press release by Boston Beer Company, makers of Samuel Adams, “The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (NYSE: SAM) and its former glass...
by DJ Spiess | May 16, 2011 | Beer, Featured
Once while in San Diego I stumbled upon Comic-Con. I thought the idea was cool, bought a ticket, and walked in. That was obviously many years ago considering this year’s event in July sold out in January. Back when I went it was just starting to become the wild...
by DJ Spiess | Feb 10, 2011 | Beer, Featured
There’s no beer in space, yet, but an Australian non-profit space research corporation called Astronauts4Hire is working to change that. We need refreshments for space tourists after all. The problem with beer on space stations (besides driving a billion+ dollar...
by DJ Spiess | Jan 29, 2011 | Beer
The trend for consuming less beer in Germany continues. Beer sales in Germany have declined since the reunification in the 1990s, and every year since German beer sales decline by about 1.7%. For the first time ever, German beer sales have dropped below 100 million...
