Col-lab-o-ra-tion Noun The action of working with someone to produce or create something. In this case, it’s the creation of beer. And partnerships. And community. 2018 for me, was the year of the beer collaboration. Since launching Beer.Diversity. in April, I’ve been looking for ways to build and create more within the beer community. Again…
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Tobacco Dock in London is a vast, sprawling space. Spanning 16,000sqm, the building comprises two expansive floors. It’s a Grade I listed warehouse, built around 1811, and is constructed primarily from brick and iron. Its original purpose was to store imported tobacco before it continued its onward journey. And for several days in the beginning…
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Investment in brewery software is essential to take your brewery to the next level. Through software you can keep track of your product on hand and processes that work the best for your team,” says Brittany Lacey from Ekos. “It syncs your team together, saving your team hours of headache from something that may have…
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Surly Brewing Company has a lot to answer for. The Minnesota-based brewery has become one of North America’s most respected modern breweries thanks to beers such as Furious IPA. And it was back in 2009, thanks to a love of soccer, that took John Heim and his family down to Minneapolis, one of Minnesota’s major…
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Nearly one and half million people call Manitoba home and more than half of these inhabit it’s capital Winnipeg. But in 2018, only 12 breweries operate in a province that spans 650,000km2. It’s a figure that would bring out most good beer lovers in a cold sweat, so it’s probably best not to tell them…
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Quite often at our barrel shop, we are approached by craft breweries asking for varied and different kinds of barrels that have previously held varied spirits such as rum, sherry, calvados and cognac. It gets tricky to procure good quality recently emptied barrels of this nature without having to procure an entire truckload of them…
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When you tell people you are a brewer or work in a brewery they immediately assume you drink beer for a living. As great as that sounds we know drinking is not an official part of the job (if I’m incorrect here please note I would like to apply for the beer drinking job). Brewing…
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Granted, the horrible (and illegal) practice of providing money to secure a place at a drinking establishment goes well back into the 1800’s. In 1997, when I started my career with the Oland Specialty Beer Co., it was against company policy to seal a commitment with a ‘keg deal’. In fact, our leadership team went…
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Dressed in a KISS vest, dark glasses and sporting two thick sideburns Mark Heise looks like a man who literally fell off a Memphis stage. The look is surely by design as Heise, president of Rebellion Brewing Company and his wife Joanne both love great beer, punk rock, country music and real BBQ. The first…
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Sleeping again. I’m looking forward to sleeping again.” Tom Paterson is looking forward to getting a full night’s rest and….dare he say it, relax. Because for Paterson, seven years after he founded Junction Craft Brewing with Doug Pengelly, the duo have finally got somewhere they can truly call home. Oh, and a decent-sized patio where…
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