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Beer All About Beer: An Ode to That Delicious Beverage 
 Explores the history of beer, the brewing process, beer styles, the growing craft industry (including homemade and specialty beers, brewpubs, and cooking with beer), and beer collectables. From a research team "dedicated to providing useful, timely, accurate, and easily understood information on a wide range of lifestyle topics." http://www.drinkfocus.com/articles/beer/ Topics: Beverages Last updated Aug 7, 2007 Beer Advocate
Beer articles, reviews and news, event listings, and chat forums. Over 1,000 beers are listed (also searchable), many with reviews by the site and ratings by users, with opinions and information on style, origin, availability, smell, taste, and appearance. http://beeradvocate.com/ Topics: Beverages Last updated Apr 7, 2006 Beer Festival Calendar
Listings for hundreds of events every year, in over a dozen countries. Includes reader reviews and a monthly column, Beer Traveller. A hobbyist site that compares favorably to more "official" resources. http://www.beerfestivals.org/ Topics: Beverages, Holidays and Observances Individually, Recreation, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jun 3, 2003 Brewery Histories
This site features histories of selected breweries, including Bellingham Bay Brewery, Olympia Brewing Company, Port Townsend Brewing Company, and Rainier Brewing Company (all in Washington state), Salem Brewery Association (Oregon), and Acme Brewing Company (San Francisco). Includes images of memorabilia from the breweries, such as labels, bottles, "church keys" (bottle openers), steins, and saloon tokens. From a retailer of memorabilia from U.S. breweries. http://www.brewerygems.com/histories.htm Topics: Beverages, Business, Collectors & Collecting Last updated Aug 15, 2005 Hop Education
This site is devoted to hops, the plants that give beer its flavor and aroma. Brought to North America by colonists in 1629, virtually all commercially grown hops are now found in the Pacific Northwest states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. This site from a Yakima Valley, Washington state, brewing supply company describes hop varieties and components and explains the uses of products made from raw hops. Includes a data book and photographs. http://www.hopunion.com/hopeducation.html Topics: Beverages, Crops, Plants by Name Last updated Jun 30, 2009 Realbeer.com
All about brewing beer, drinking beer, beer history, pubs, brewing industry news, discussion boards, beer festivals, and more. Includes regional and city guides to breweries (micro- and national), pubs, and brewpubs. Searchable for "whatever in the beer world you are looking for." http://realbeer.com/ Topics: Beverages Last updated Sep 25, 2003 Tapping Into Oktoberfest
Article about how "a Bavarian celebration that became a German tradition is giving amusement parks and major cities a reason to celebrate in October." Provides a brief history of these beer-drinking festivals (which "began as a wedding celebration for a Bavarian crown prince in 1810"), and information about the event as held in Munich, Germany, and in cities and amusement parks in the United States. From the magazine for the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions. http://www.iaapa.org/industry/funworld/2003/Oct03/Features/Tapping_Into_Oktoberfest/Tapping_Into_Oktoberfest.html Topics: Holidays and Observances Individually, Holidays by Region Last updated Aug 7, 2007 Tastings: The Beverage Testing Institute
Contains reviews of wine, beer, and distilled spirits. Search thousands of tasting notes on wines by score, price, country, varietal, and year. Includes best wine producers by country and region, a "food and wine matching guide," wine merchants, and a dictionary. Special features are "Wines of the Week" and "Quick Finds." http://www.tastings.com/ Topics: Beverages, Wine Last updated Mar 14, 2004 WashingtonBrewersGuild.org
The Washington Brewers Guild site provides information about the organization and its members, industry news, and Washington state breweries. Includes a clickable map for breweries by region, links to industry news in the state media, and descriptions of the varieties of ales, lagers, and specialty beers. Includes a blood alcohol chart from the state Liquor Control Board, showing the relationship between gender, weight, and drinks consumed. Part of the site is available to members only. http://www.washingtonbrewersguild.org/ Topics: Beverages, Drugs & Medications by Type Last updated Jul 9, 2003 |
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