An interview with Atlanta’s Richard Roper, one of two winners of the annual Samuel Adams LongShot Homebrew Competition

There’s nothing like vacationing on an island, tanning to prove you went somewhere, unwinding with the therapeutic crashing waves and sipping the indigenous beer that proudly represents its home.

Hey, the megabrewers are part of the beer world, too, right?

When the state of Louisiana is mentioned, I’d bet thoughts of food pop up in an overwhelming majority of minds. But what about beer?

Ninety casks brewed for the first annual Sweetwater Brewery “Brew Your Cask Off” competition made the beautiful afternoon of Saturday, March 20th that much more… well, beautiful.

It certainly is a beautiful time for beer when a Web site is created to diversify drink menus and fill coolers with microbrews that are otherwise unavailable in particular parts of the United State

St. Louis is one of the major beer hubs in the world with microbrewers like Shlafly to the Anheuser-Busch empire collectively

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