This Week In Craft Beer News: Picking Fresh Hops In The Netherlands, Cervecería Non Grata in Bogotá, Surly, Girl Shooters, Trappistes Rochefort

Picking Fresh Hops In The Netherlands, Cervecería Non Grata in Bogotá, Surly, Girl Shooters, Trappistes Rochefort
This Week in Craft Beer News: Bell’s Brewery Quadruple IPA, Texas Craft Brewers Festival, Crowns and Hops, Boogaloo, Black Is Beautiful
Dixie Beer We Hardly Knew Ye
This morning, brewery owner Gayle Benson announced there is a “process underway to change the name of Dixie Brewery and all Dixie-branded products.” Continue Reading
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‘Good Jax Boogie’ and the Story of Jackson Bohemian Brewery
I wonder how much Jax Brewing Company paid Dave Bartholomew to cut this track back in 1950? The song is little more than a two plus minute elegy to the common lager that was widely available at bars and corner stores in that long ago time.
It is a jumper though.
Jackson Bohemian Brewery, locally known as Jax Beer, was founded by 27 year old Alsatian German immigrant Lawrence Fabacher in 1890 at 600 Decatur Street. The building was designed and constructed by fellow German Dietrich Einsiedel. Thos. Hofer was employed as head brewer after being spirited away from rival Weckerling Brewery. Continue Reading