Magic Hat founder Alan Newman has recently landed a pretty sweet gig with Jim Koch and Sam Adams.  Newman was forced out of Magic Hat 14 months ago after it was sold off to North American Breweries.  At that point, he decided to give up his beer career, write a business book and hit the […]

This isn’t going to help keep our egos in check.  Don and I have been profiled on the site UncleBoise.com, where writer Crandal Bourdeaux does a great job of reviewing B&WB and sharing how Don and I got our start. Here’s a little taste:

I can’t believe that Saturday’s freak snowstorm on the east coast has left thousands of homes in the dark STILL!  With over 19 inches of wet and heavy snow falling in parts of Northern New Jersey over 600,000 homes were impacted, and this includes my better half on this blog,Jim.  He didn’t have power Saturday […]

It seems like just a couple months ago when we were inundated with legal actions within the world of craft beer that just served to weaken companies that were responsible for the craft beer movement.  We were “eating our young” as it were with craft beer companies suing each other over beer names, employees, labels, […]

This morning on my way into work I had to make a quick WalMart run.  My wife has been couponing to save our family $$ and she made a run to WalMart yesterday, and had a few things she forgot so sent me this morning on my way into work.  As I was making my […]

News out of the Europe is that SABMiller is launching an authentic line of Belgian craft beers after inking a distribution agreement with the Van Steenberge brewery in Ertvelde, Belgium, and the Saint Stefanus monastery. The beers will be offered in select markets (no word on US distribution yet) under the St. Stefanus label, the namesake […]

Here’s something you don’t see every day.  It seems the old shelves at Superior Wine in Sheboygan, Wisconsin couldn’t handle the weight of the wine that was laden upon them, so they decided to give up in quite a spectacular fashion. The security footage shows what is essentially a flood of wine and champagne sweep […]

Before I had kids, I had no idea what a problem peanut allergies have become.  Now it seems that every class my kids are in and every sports team they are on includes at least one child with a dangerous allergy to nuts. One trace of peanut protein can cause an allergic child to swell […]

  Here is a quick video satire of the new brew collaboration between Dogfish Head and The Bruery.  Looks good, and I might be able to get a taste out here, so I’m looking forward to it hitting shelves.  

The world of craft beer keeps getting bigger and bigger.  Let me, just as an example, talk about the Boise, Idaho area.  First we had the Boise Co-op with their craft beer offerings.  Then we got a couple bottle shops in Brewforia.  Then Wine markets began to carry a larger and larger selection of craft […]

Even as sales of craft beer continue to climb by double digits, overall sales of beer are down 1% by volume this year.  It’s the big boys who are shouldering the brunt of the burden, and they are starting to make some splashy moves to stem their losses. Take a look at Bud Light.  Advertising […]

Thanks to the “miracle” of social media, we are constantly pumping information into the datasphere, much of it personal in nature.  One clever fella, Scott Golder, a graduate student from the Social Dynamics Lab at Cornell, has taken some of that information and put it to interesting use. 

The past year has seen a proliferation of excellent beers available in cans, which offer many benefits to the consumer and to the environment.  But one thing cans don’t offer is the elegance of a bottle, and that’s at the heart of why Dogfish Head has no plans to can their beers. 

Don and I spoke with Dogfish Head’s big fish Sam Calagione today, and we asked about the TV show Brew Masters and what comes next for Dogfish Head and mass media.  Sam’s answer was pretty exciting. Sam told us that he’s still working with Zero Point Zero, the production company that filmed Brew Masters, but […]

A pounded pony and a punctured pal. What you see above is Perry Palm’s (the pony pounder) shiny new Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca Edition (the bossest of the Boss’s), which he wrapped around at tree this past Sunday.  Perry was hanging out at barbeque in Menominee Falls, Wisconsin enjoying many beers when he decided […]