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On the heels of LA Beer Week, we lucky Angeleno’s will have Eagle Rock Brewing coming soon and now another entrant based in Hollywood,.
Hollywood Brewery is the brainchild of the people behind the newly opened Stout on Cahuenga near BoHo and Essex House. They are planning an ambitious amount of different beers when they are up and running.
Things are starting to turn the corner here.
Ommegang and Cooperstown are on my NY beer list and now add Ithaca as well. They have a couple of noteworthy additions in Brute and Eleven that sound great. Plus they have a nice regular line-up that includes a brown that makes me thirsty.
If you are still in need of Oktoberfest style beers, this new entrant has what you are looking for…
Julius Echter
They have a pretty good German Hefe as well as pils and a dark beer. Plus they have been around forever while most of the other breweries in Franconia have gone under.
Shifting to the East Coast. Here is another brewery on my list to visit or sample beers from…
First some background, “Weyerbacher History
Weyerbacher Brewing Company was founded in 1995 by Dan and Sue Weirback. The company name is the original spelling used by the first immigrants from Germany about 200 years ago. The spelling has morphed slightly over time, but we thought the original sounded best for the brewery.
How it came to be!
In the beginning, Dan was an avid homebrewer and microbrew connoisseur. One weekend, late in 1993, while vacationing in Vermont, Dan and Sue toured the Long Trail brewery, back when it was in the basement of an old mill. Dan was looking for a new business to get into but it was Sue who suggested he start thinking about starting his own brewery. As they say, the rest is history!”
Since I had some big and dark beers at Freaktoberfest, I thought I would highlight another Halloween appropriate brewery from the East coast.
“Welcome to The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery! We are a new packaging microbrewery (we sold our first beer in August of 2004) located in Farmville, North Carolina. We specialize in beautiful, delicious, full flavored dark beers. When we brew, we’re happy and we dance. During fermentation, we sing softly to the yeast. Please try our beer and enjoy a taste of contentment!”
This beer sounds especially tasty…
The Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout is a traditional full-bodied stout brewed with lactose (milk sugar). The subtle sweetness imparted by the lactose balances the sharpness
This is one of my favorite breweries in Europe. They have an awesome hefeweizen but their beers aren’t super distributed even in Germany. One day, I hope they will make it here. Even a little would be welcome.
From east coast to west, I have had the fortune to have had a few bombers of the beer from Snoqualmie and it is excellent. I am especially fond of the Wildcat IPA.
1. We are selling out of beer completely and as a result we are now finalizing our plans to introduce a bigger brew house which should allow us to meet the demand in time for next summer. We want to apologize to all those of you who are finding difficulty sometimes in finding our beers, but we hope that will soon no longer be an issue. We want to thank everyone for their support and it is your drinking of the beer that is allowing us to continue to grow and improve.
2. Our beers will be available in the UK starting next month. 961 Beer has shipped its first batch of Lager to the UK and we expect to be available very soon.
3. We have successfully grown our first hops in Lebanon. These are historic times for us as it is the first such project in the whole region. We aim to go full scale next year and this is all part of our policy to brew a totally Lebanese beer. Go local!
In the future, I hope we can get some of their stuff here in the US. Would be a kick to have a Fresh Hop Lebanese IPA.
There were many beers that I wanted to have while in Denver but what is also great is hearing about breweries that are popular at home and praised for great beer that are brand new to me.
Here are three breweries to watch:
Everybody’s Brewing Company
151 E. Jewett
White Salmon, WA 98672
United States
phone: (509) 637-2774
“Doug is pumping out new beers on the regular
as he dials in his signature recipes.
Meanwhile its a good time to get as much beer as possible!
We have a delicious Porter and Xtra Pale on draft,
both rated highly by BeerAdvocate.com.
Click on the links above to read the reviews.
We also have an ESB and two IPA’s which are
due to hit the taps late August. Yippie!”