In case you didn’t know, inhaling vaporized hops is a thing now. According to Lagunitas Brewing Co., vaporizing hops has been the talk of homebrewers for years, and the Petaluma brewery has known about it for some time too. It’s thanks to the brewery that the practice of vaporizing hops…

It’s already March and the recently-opened Twenty Twenty Grille is already getting in on the beer scene by pairing with Funky Buddha Brewery for a beer dinner tomorrow at their location in Boca Raton. Starting at 7 p.m., dinner guests will expand their stomachs with a four-course dinner prepared by…

Tequesta Brewing Company wants to build a brewery in Palm Beach Gardens. An application to the Palm Beach Gardens Planning and Zoning Department filed last November shows that a Houston company is seeking approval for a Twisted Trunk microbrewery at the southwest corner of US 1 and PGA Boulevard. See…

LauderAle is on the cusp of opening, and when it does, it will be Fort Lauderdale’s first microbrewery. The venture is headed by friends Kyle Jones and Joe Farrell, who are both from Fort Lauderdale and have only recently caught the craft-beer bug. See Also: Broward’s Homebrew Craft Beer Scene:…

Drinking a beer made with a man’s beard is as close to the human anatomy you probably feel comfortable putting in your mouth, but then again someone out there also made a beer with ingredients from a woman’s snatch. These odd brewing practices have one thing in common: yeast, the…

Funky Buddha Brewery announced yesterday that it will collaborate with Delaware’s Dogfish Head Brewery for a unification beach brew. Each brewery will come together for a collaboration beer that combines local ingredients, most particularly salt harvested from area beaches. See Also: Funky Buddha Rolled Out the Red Carpet for the…

The companies that make some of America’s favorite whiskey will no longer be American but Japanese. Beam, Inc., distiller of classic American whiskey Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark, was acquired by Japanese beverage company Suntory Holdings. Beam agreed on Monday to be purchased by the Japanese company in a $13.6…

The cans versus bottle debate will probably rage on forever, but here is some evidence to prove that bottles are better than cans when it comes to craft beer. It’s true that light damages beer, which makes it taste skunky. But there is a dark side to can production that…

If geography was any indication of beer geekdom, then the people of Iceland will soon be able to drink a beer made with whale meat. Steojar Brewery has partnered with Hvalur, a whaling company, to brew a 5.2 percent whale meat lager that hearkens back to their Viking brethren. Brewery…

Starbucks sent a cease-and-desist letter to Exit 6 Pub and Brewery in Cottleville, MO earlier this month after the mega-corporation discovered that one of the brewpub’s customers named a beer ‘frappicino’. The discovery was made by the coffee giant after searching the website, Untappd, a social network for beer drinkers…

Ah, Christmas, a whole day of watching the kids unwrap presents while you stay happy with that holiday variety pack bought days earlier. Lets just hope you left one for Santa. Bust out the case of Christmas ales because you’ve got the week off (hopefully) and nothing else to do…

It’s officially one week until Christmas. If you’ve run out of friends or family you enjoy spending time with this holiday season, at least you have beer. And if you’re long overdue for a cold brew, maybe you’d be willing to work for it. Just don’t go around trading any…

Take a look at those skinny, bendy, self-righteous chicks twisting their bodies into endless dimensions. It seems like a bit of a stretch to have yourself doing the same thing, and honestly you’re thinking that you’d rather just have a beer. But what if you can have both? You can…

Need an awesome holiday gift for the craft-beer-loving freak in the family? Partnering with Tampa-based newspaper Creative Loafing, Cigar City Brewing is auctioning off a massive bottle of beer on eBay. The winning bidder will be invited to Tampa to sample all of the brewery’s current stock of barrel-aged beer…

Two weeks until Christmas, you know what that means. Beer gifts for beer lovers and heavy consumption of Christmas ale. But beware of what you buy, especially with beer because it could be illegal (if it’s Heady Topper). And besides the craft boom, beer in Florida has taken an interesting…

If you don’t know by now, this Thursday is the 80th anniversary since alcohol became legal (again). The ratification of the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, thus officially ending America’s ban on booze. Al Capone, the violent and ruthless Chicago gangster, became the symbol for all that was wrong…

Have you ever loved beer so much that you just want to marry it? We know the feeling. Too bad that beer’s not a solid or else we’d be eating it for every meal. There’s something special about this time of year. What does it have to do with beer?…

In mathematical terms, Thanksgiving equals spending time with family, a trash-talking card game or two, passing out with a belly full of turkey dinner and beer and then waking up to count your new stretch marks. In This Week in Beer News, we try to celebrate that you shouldn’t just…