The Brew Site
Asheville, NC’s Highland Brewing is launching its summer Pints with Purpose beer series, a monthly schedule of five beers that will benefit a different non-profit organization each month from April through August. Each beer is draft only and will be available to go in crowlers featuring original label designs. Details: … Continue reading
A new (old) beer is launching in Washington, DC, this month — Old Time Lager, ostensibly from The Hopfheiser Brewing Company (but which is really DC Brau Brewing, according to the DC Beer blog). The brew follows a pre-Prohibition-ish recipe with 2-row barley and flaked corn and is currently available … Continue reading
Because it’s 4/20, you know there’s a, shall we say, terpene-themed beer to write about. (After all, I had themed posts the past couple of years.) This time around, it’s Elysian Brewing providing the dank with its newest IPA officially released today, Dank Dust IPA. Elysian had sent out a … Continue reading
Beer activism! Flying Dog Brewery is launching a campaign against censorship with its new beer, 451 Juicy IPA, out this month. As the name implies, it’s inspired by the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books are outlawed and burned. The campaign hits social media with participation encouraged. Here’s … Continue reading
Neshaminy Creek Brewing of Pennsylvania has a new hazy IPA out this month, joining its “Shape of Haze” series—Aloha Shape of Haze to Come. The beer itself was released about two weeks ago, and the brewery plans a “Creek-i-tiki” Luau release party on April 23. Details: Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company … Continue reading
Brave Noise is a worldwide brewing collaboration project that aims to bring attention to the treatment of women within the beer industry as well as raise funds for relevant charitable or non-profit organizations. It spun out of last year’s explosive revelations of sexism in the industry when Notch Brewing’s then-production … Continue reading
I posted recently about Left Hand Brewing partnering with Soldiers’ Angels to release a special IPA to raise money supporting U.S. service members and veterans, and now Texas-based Karbach Brewing is doing the same. It’s all part of the Hops for Heroes campaign, which is open to any breweries that want to … Continue reading
Rogue Ales is in the second year of its Monsters of IPA campaign promoting its three monster- or cryptid-themed IPAs, Batsquatch, Colossal Claude, and the newest, Gumberoo, via a series of animated videos with the chance to earn prizes all through April and May. Details from the release: This April … Continue reading
Another in my Boilermaker series of beer-and-whiskey reviews, featuring two Portland giants: Widmer Brother Brewing and Westward Whiskey. It’s a review from last fall, when Widmer’s Brrr Hoppy Red winter seasonal was out, and seemed a fitting matchup for the Westward Single Malt Whiskey. Why? Well, because Westward is one … Continue reading
New Orleans’ Urban South Brewery launched a new beer that benefits humanitarian efforts in Ukraine via the International Rescue Committee—Double Spilled: Slava Ukraini. 100% of the proceeds of the beer will be donated to the IRC organization for relief efforts. Double Spilled is a fruited sour beer brewed with pineapple, … Continue reading