Spartanburg breweries took home lots of awards at the South Carolina Brewers Guild awards. Rockers, New Groove and Plankowner took home gold for their beers.
There’s fermentation in beer, and there’s fermentation in politics. Over the course of history, the two often cross. This year’s contentious and omnipresent election is a case study of that cross-over: During the primaries, candidates from Ted Cruz to Hillary Clinton and John Kasich took time to visit local breweries, even pouring up pints in
“More than a club” is the motto of the Spanish football club FC Barcelona, and perhaps QUAFF (The Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity), the granddaddy of the San Diego homebrew clubs, has earned the right to hijack it. As Mary Anne Bixby, a longtime club member, said in a 2010 interview: “QUAFF is more like
Almost no one talks bad about Pliny the Elder. Russian River Brewing Co.’s acclaimed double India pale ale has received almost perfect scores at popular beer reviewing sites, like RateBeer.com and BeerAdvocate.com. Gushing fans, jabbing at their keyboards with the beloved hop bomb on their desks, have even gone so far as to call this
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