Gifts for the craft beer enthusiast

Do you have a craft beer lover on your Christmas list? Stumped for what to get him ? The obvious answer is beer , of course, but if you want to be more creative, here are some ideas: Gift card to your local brew-on-premise to brew their own beer A beer book - How about "Chicken Wings for the Beer Drinker's Soul" or "Goodnight Brew: A Parody for Beer People"? Or a "how to" book for home brewers? All available on Amazon. Socks with hops on them -- I mean, guys are expecting socks for Christmas, aren't they? Get him some he'll like! T-shirts, glasses, signs, etc.

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Craft Beer, Now Brewed Like Budweiser

Craft brewers have largely gravitated toward heavier varieties like stouts and IPAs, drawn by their richness and complexity. The humble, easier-drinking lager, on the other hand, was largely overlooked.

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Delta stocks more regional craft beers for U.S. routes

This week, the Atlanta-based carrier began stocking its beverage carts with a selection of regional craft beers to bring local options to customers. Beer from Ballast Point Brewing Co.

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All of Cincinnati's breweries are collaborating on a mega beer

"This is the fourth year of Cincinnati Beer Week. At its inception, we really wanted to do something different with the week and celebrate the breweries in the city," Cincinnati Beer Week president Lindsey Roeper told me.

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CAMRA: Beer lovers announce meeting date in Uttoxeter

It will include a selection of real ales on offer at a reduced price. The business side of the meeting will last about half an hour and then the socialising begins.

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Device Dispenses Beer When Two Strangers Charge Their Phones Together

Alcohol has long been known as a social lubricant, which is exactly why Nordic agency group Hasan & Partners has created a device that dispense beer only when two people are charging their phone together. Installed at this year's Eurobest , a celebration of European creativity held in Helsinki, the concept is designed to make networking more enjoyable, while also preventing too many awkward silences.

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Beer Lover's Guide to Chicago

It may not be Portland or Denver, but in recent years, Chicago has carved out a beer niche of its own, with new breweries, bars, and brewpubs popping up every season. Chicago's craft-beer scene can intimidate the average visitor and even beer fanatics, but that's no reason to skip the Windy City's top beer meccas.

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Waiting to buy Brewgrass tickets? You'll be cryin' in your beer 'cause they're gone

They're gone, baby, gone - tickets to the 2008 Brewgrass festival, that is. All 3,500 tickets for the downtown party have been snatched up.

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North Carolina Beer Distribution Agreements

Obtain a malt beverage wholesaler permit to sell, deliver, and ship at wholesale only malt beverages manufactured by the brewery. The authorization of this subdivision applies to a brewery that sells, to consumers at the brewery, to wholesalers, to retailers, and to exporters, fewer than 25,000 barrels, as defined in G.S. 81A-9, of malt beverages produced by it per year.

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Man Busts Store Window, Steals Beer

A man was arrested early Thursday morning after he allegedly smashed a store window with a baseball bat and then walked off with a 12-pack of Heineken. Mark Henry, 55, of Nashua, was charged with burglary after a witness called police after seeing Henry break into Pigeon's Market at 168 Wilson St., in Manchester, around 12:20 a.m. Police located Henry at the intersection of Wilson and Somverville streets.

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Should You Buy a Sonic Foamer for Your Beer-Loving Pals this Christmas?

I live in a thousand-square-foot box. There is no room for anything in this house that does not serve at least useful purpose.

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Virginia brewery taps 300-year-old beer recipe

Ardent Craft Ales is tapping into the Virginia Historical Society's collections to serve ... . Co-Owner of Ardent Craft Ales, Kevin O'Leary, takes a sample of Persimmon beer at the facility in Richmond, VA., Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014.

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Out.Haus Ales: Unusual name, great beer

Despite living here all my life, I don't enjoy winters in New England. There is too much snow and the temperatures get much to low for my liking.

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Homemade beer made easier to brew with smartphone controlled Brewie

Homebrewing isnt entirely a new concept; we have seen gadgets before which aim to make this process easier and simpler enough to be successuflly carried out at homes. But of course with this growing technology all around us, we are now met with an even better solution.

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Beer: Thirsty for an old one?

When Old Economy Village in Ambridge holds its annual Holiday Dinner with the Pittsburgh Opera next Wednesday, Dec. 10, guests will get a taste of the beer made and enjoyed by the original Harmonist residents about 200 years ago. This fall, Nichole A. Remmert, development and marketing associate for Friends of Old Economy Village, which administers the museum site with the state, worked with counterparts at Historic New Harmony in Indiana to get an English translation of a circa-1816 Harmonist beer recipe that the Ambridge site gave the Indiana one years ago.

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Iron Maiden beer to crack America

US fans of UK heavy metal band Iron Maiden will soon be getting a taste of the group's best-selling ale as it is announced that a canned version will be heading stateside early next year. According to the Manchester Evening News , some 300,000 "Trooper" ales in 500ml "tallboy" cans will be shipped to the US and go on sale in January 2015.

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Blackstone Releases Two New 'Black List' Beers

Earlier this summer, Blackstone Brewing Co . began a new program of special limited releases the are calling their "Black List" beers.

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MPs raise glasses of Box Steam Brewery's Tunnel Vision beer

'Isambard Kingdom Brunel', Duncan Hames MP and Philip Downes, of Box Steam Brewery, in the Strangers' Bar at the House of Commons GLASSESS of Box Steam Brewery's Tunnel Vision were raised at the seat of Government, after Chippenham MP Duncan Hames selected the beer as the week's guest ale at the House of Commons' Strangers' Bar. Philip Downes, master brewer at the Holt brewery, made the journey to London to share a pint with Mr Hames and other MPs for whom the Strangers' Bar is effectively their 'local'.

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Storybook beer and a Superhero Sandwich Shop

The latest nano outfit to suddenly appear on the scene, Storybook Brewing , opened Nov. 25 . Brewer and owner Pete Kilman still runs operations for a local software company by day, but brings 17 years of homebrewing experience to Storybook.

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