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Magic Hat calls BS on West Sixth’s media campaign after lawsuit

2013-05-22T04:00:28+00:00

Press Release: (Burlington, VT) – After months of working in good faith, and receiving assurances that West Sixth Brewing would modify its marketing materials, Magic Hat Brewing was blindsided by a social media ambush that attempts to deflect West Sixth Brewing’s trademark infringements. “West Sixth Brewing packaged the “perfect story” of...

Magic Hat Gives Their Side of “West Sixth Brewing Lawsuit” Story

2013-05-22T03:16:15+00:00

As promised, we are presenting Magic Hat Brewing’s side of the story we published earlier, in which West Sixth Brewing asked…The post Magic Hat Gives Their Side of “West Sixth Brewing Lawsuit” Story appeared first on thefullpint.com.

West Sixth Brewing says it is being sued by Magic Hat parent for allegedly copying #9 logo

2013-05-21T21:35:15+00:00

(Lexington, KY) – West Sixth Brewing announced on Tuesday that it is being sued by Magic Hat’s parent company for allegedly copying its #9 beer logo. West Sixth has responded, in part, with a lengthy blog post and petition as well as acquiring the NoMoreMagicHat.com domain name. Because the West Sixth...

Alltech’s Lexington Brewing founder says company could become fifth-largest craft brewer

2013-05-21T21:07:55+00:00

The company’s Alltech Bourbon Barrel Ale has become the biggest-selling craft beer in Ohio, according to its distributor, Lyons said. His existing brewery can produce as much as 30,000 barrels a year, but with the expansion, capacity could nearly double, Lyons said. He predicted that within five or six years,...

Casks in WW II (part two)

2013-05-21T15:09:35+00:00

We're back with casks in WW II. I had a little too much information for a single post. Some breweries had the foresight to buy in staves before the outbreak of war. Though, in Whitbread's case at least, they ended up as firewood:"For many years the policy in...

Ilkley Brewery beers hit U.S. market for first time this week

2013-05-21T15:00:10+00:00

Chris Ives, managing director and founder of Ilkley Brewery, made the breakthrough with a panel of distributors and beer experts after joining two trade missions to find new markets for his best-selling brands. Almost 15,000 bottles of three leading Ilkley brands should be on sale in bars and restaurants in...

Is It Really Pronounced say-ZOHNS?

2013-05-20T22:17:22+00:00

See, in these times when people are questioning all manner of stuff that is foisted upon the fan of good beer, one get's a little internally chippy. So, when I read the beginning of this NYT article by Clay Risen just now I stopped and then stopped myself:For years, the...

Casks in WW II

2013-05-20T15:09:08+00:00

In the days when barrels were still made of wood, a supply of oak for building and maintaining them was essential.English oak was in short supply and since the 19th century most of the wood used in making casks had been imported:"While the question of new casks and a supply...

Working blue

2013-05-20T15:08:57+00:00

I do like a bit of blueberry now and then: in a muffin, on a cheesecake, ice cream, pancakes, and even in the odd beer. The very odd beer, sometimes. I found this tall boy in La Chope de Lug in Lyon last year, and though it appears to have...

British hop imports in the 20th century

2013-05-19T09:15:59+00:00

It's one of those special treat days. Where, as a reward for being good, I give you a bug, fat, juicy table. Several tables, in factThe tables in question have details of the hops grown, imported, exported and used in the UK from 1857 to 1954. So almost 100 years'...

Replacing American hops

2013-05-18T15:26:02+00:00

The idea of growing American-style hops isn't a new one. Attempts were already being made to breed varieties with the characteristics of American hops which could be grown in Britain.As I've pointed out before, from the 1860's on, large quantities of American hops were used by British breweries."American hops also...

Selective Readings From Some Article In Slate

2013-05-18T01:45:13+00:00

In ten years of writing about beer, I have to admit the reaction to the article "Against Hoppy Beer" in Slate yesterday by author Adrienne So is one of the oddest over reactions to something written about beer that I think I have ever seen. As others have done to...

Drybrough PI 1914 - 1919 (part two)

2013-05-17T11:26:18+00:00

I bet you thought I'd forgotten about this, the second part of my look at Drybrough PI in WW I. I hadn't. Just got distracted by holidays and the like.And, yes, the quantity of data to fiddle with put me off, too. At this rate my series on Drybrough's beer...

MADD, AAA and NHTSA are not endorsing NTSB’s call to lower BAC level to .05

2013-05-17T05:21:01+00:00

Even safety groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and AAA declined Tuesday to endorse NTSB’s call for a .05 threshold. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which sets national safety policy, stopped also short of endorsing the board’s recommendation. More >> The Washington Post.

Cigar City Hunahpu Day 2013 (Limited Release Beer webisode)

2013-05-16T23:40:36+00:00

� � Cigar City’s Hunahpu Day Brewery: Cigar City Brewery, Tampa FL BrewMaster: Wayne Wambles Release Date: 3/9/2013 2012 Batch Size: ~15k 22oz bombers via Limited Release Beer.

Brewing materials at the start of WW II

2013-05-16T11:24:26+00:00

The whole back catalogue of the Journal of the Institute of Brewing has recently been put online. Obviously one of the first topics I researched was wartime brewing. I never get bored of that.There are two articles dedicated to brewing during the war, nicely bookending it. One is from 1940,...

Dispense with the formalities

2013-05-16T08:45:14+00:00

Cask Thornbridge Halcyon was a pleasant surprise on the cask beer engine at Against the Grain a few months ago. I had encountered an aged version at a festival a while back so it was interesting to compare notes with a spanking fresh pint.It's a very different experience, with the...

So Is This The Brewery Hell Bent On Raising Price?

2013-05-16T07:36:03+00:00

Some startling statements in this report on a presentation by Simon Thorpe, the president of Duvel USA/Ommegang from May 2 reported in this article published just yesterday:“We are revenue and margin driven, which means high pricing and margins at the expense of volume... We think that the difference that our...

Beer trade associations oppose NTSB’s recommendation to lower BAC level (video)

2013-05-16T00:11:26+00:00

� On Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a set of recommendations to curb, if not completely eliminate, automotive deaths caused by alcohol impairment. The recommendations made to states include lowering the BAC level from .08 to .05 and introducing in-vehicle technology that would detect alcohol impairment. According to WJLA, “The...

Oklahoma alcohol enforcement board raids brewpub for brewing beer above 3.2% ABV (video)

2013-05-15T23:18:55+00:00

� � The Oklahoma ABLE Commission cracked down on a south Tulsa brewery Tuesday afternoon. Agents say Pi Pizzeria and Craft Beer House is only licensed to make and sell low-point beer, but some customers complained it’s too strong. More >> KJRH.

BrewDog details troubles with centrifuge at new brewery

2013-05-15T20:20:33+00:00

The first issues we had at the very start of 2013 were with our new centrifuge: Using a centrifuge to completely forgo filtration was always going to be a challenge with our sky high hopping rates (we totally broke our trial centrifuge in 2012!). In January we ended up completely...

Ageing 18th-century London Porter

2013-05-15T11:22:46+00:00

I'd always thought Porter was aged in the huge vats London brewers were so proud of.� The big innovation of Porter was the bulk ageing of beer in the brewery. I'd never really thought much about what happened to it after it was packaged for sale.Yet here's evidence of Porter...

Brewery Numbers Aren’t Everything

2013-05-15T08:30:05+00:00

Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog - Going on about beer and pubs since 2007 It seems that, between 1980 and 1983, around a hundred new breweries opened in Britain — about as many again as there were in total ten years earlier. Last year, as you’ll have heard repeated over and...

Taunton man sees ball game

2013-05-14T15:13:31+00:00

You have to love the local press and the, er, local spin they put on everything. Odd that, bang in the middle of WW II, a local man watching a game of American football warranted an article.There is a beer reference, if you persevere with reading, about three quarters of...

Goose Island Beer Company celebrates 25 years (video)

2013-05-14T04:27:57+00:00

� � In celebration of our 25th year as a brewery, we’ve taken a look back and talked to the brewers that got their start with us. In addition, we have our Founder John Hall and current brewers talking about the future of Goose Island. via YouTube | Goose Island.