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Brew CAN Do It!

By Kraig Torres at July 7, 2010 | 10:43 pm | 0 Comment

Canned beer has a long and not always illustrious history in the annals of drinking. As early as 1909, brewers unsuccessfully attempted to keep beer fresh and carbonated in tin cans. Anticipating the end of Prohibition, the American Can Company in 1931 began a fresh effort to can beer. By 1935, Krueger’s Finest Beer went on sale in Richmond, VA following shortly by 36 more...

Beer 21st Amendment, Brew Free or Die IPA, Butternuts, Dale's Pale Ale, Gordon, Gub’na, Hell or High Watermelon Wheat, Krueger’s Finest Beer, Oskar Blues, Ratebeer, Ten Fidy, Wittekirk Belgian White, Young’s Double Chocolate Stout

2009 “Beer” in Review

By Kraig Torres at January 20, 2010 | 9:19 pm | 4 Comments

I know, I know—everyone has a year-end article about something. Why should beer be an exception … especially in light of the wonderful year that 2009 represented for metro Atlanta? From new breweries to exceptional new beers to great new destinations—last year was very kind to the beer-ophile in all of us. The final year of the aughts brought us the more...

Beer 21st Amendment, Bell's Brewery, Butternuts, Cigar City, Fat Tire, Founders, Holy Mackerel, Hoppin Frog, Jittery Joe's Coffe, Kraig Torres, New Belgium, Oberon, Pennichuck Brewery, Smuttynose, St. Somewhere, Terrapin, The Bruery, Two Heated Ale