This Week's Beer News: Best of BUG
Here's what we loved at this year's Beer Under Glass
We came, we drank, we BUG’ged out.
Since we’ve been attending Beer Under Glass events for over a decade, it’s only right that I make you read my takeaways and thoughts on this year’s event the way we started: In a blog post. Yes, for the first time in months, I’ve put something on the GuysDrinkingBeer.com site and you get to read all about it right here:
Click that button for all my top-level takeaways plus beers I loved from Sundial Brewing + Blending, Rabid Brewing, Moor’s Brewing, Dutchbag Brewing, Adams Street, Whiskey Hill and more. TLDR: Had fun, drank beer, great location. Special thanks to @jaimelikesbeer for so many great photos this year!
On to the news:
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While the variants will remain in 16.9 oz. bottles, the original Goose Island Bourbon County Stout will be sold in four-packs of 10oz. bottles for the first time ever.
The Depaulia spoke with Middle Brow’s Pete Ternes for this story about the many ways that tariffs will have a negative impact on breweries. I know there’s been a lot of these types of stories but this is a good read from a school paper.
Evan Rail’s piece for Vinepair about how pouring styles for draft beer have become a new feature of the craft beer experience features quotes from a couple people that have been at the forefront of bringing Japanese tachinomi-style service to Chicagoland: Zigmas Maloni of Beermiscuous Highwood and Jenny Pfafflin of Dovetail - plus KC Master Cicerone Neil Witte, who attended one of those events and immediately went home and set up his own Japanese-style standing bar.
Craft Beer Week kickoff coverage came from Fox-32 Chicago, ABC-7 and WIFR.
Riggs Beer Company is working with the Danville Dans - a Prospect-league baseball team - to release a new Danville Dans IPL in cans at the ballpark this season. “Lemme get a can of Dans” would be fun to say.
More on the new Good News Brewing location coming to Alton is here. (Please note that this is different from Good Times Brewery in Lakeview and Good Times Brewing in South Carolina, as well as the NA beer brand called Good Time Brewing.)
Axios says that Chilly Water’s Built to Last pilsner is pretty damn good.
The UK’s Morning Advertiser has an interesting Q&A with the brewing director and head brewer for St. Austell Brewery, Georgina Young, who served as a judge for the recent World Beer Cup competition.
It’s the fourth season for the Des Moines Biergarten, serving up Paulaner Munich Lager or Ayinger Dunkel.
A beermaker in St. Clair is opening a new 10,000-square-foot event space but I’m mostly sharing this because I love their name: War Water Brewery.
The UP’s TV-6 has a pretty in-depth broadcast feature going inside Blackrocks Brewing.
Now that winter and its 231 inches of snow are gone, the outdoor space at Tahquamenon Falls Brewery in the UP is back open.
The Minnesota Patch site wrote about a report connecting PFAS in drinking water and the brewing industry, which is something I expect we’ll be hearing more about in the future.
Anheuser-Busch announced that it’s going to invest $300 Million in its facilities across the US.
Some of that A-B investment money will be headed to Columbus, which will open a a "‘technical excellence center’ in Columbus that will work with local trade schools.”
GLBC’s brewpub is now temporarily closed for renovations.
Here’s the most Wisconsin headline I’ve read in a while: “Drunk Uncle ‘every beverage is free’ giveaway event leads to head injury, at least one arrest”
Say hello to the new Curds ala Carte at Lakefront Brewery.
In Oregon, WI, Isthmus says that Bodihow Brewing - a combination “brewery, taqueria, coffee bar, bicycle shop and meeting place” - is just what the town needed.
Per this press release from Tilray, “craft beer icon” Shock Top is rebranding.
Last week’s most-clicked link: The ABC-7 story previewing the Dovetail/Begyle Mayfestiversary. Y’all are ready to party.
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