Fortune Small Business writer Christopher S. Stewart has an interesting piece on CNN Money entitled “Small Breweries, Big Beer.” In the article, he travels to Colorado for a visit with Great Divide Brewing in Denver, Oskar Blues in Lyons and finally Avery Brewing in Boulder. For the last two stops, Paul Gatza from the Brewers Association joined him. All in all, not a bad piece.
Archives for December 8, 2006
McFarland Nabs Second Writing Award
British writer Ben McFarland won the coveted “Beer Writer of the Year” award from the British Guild of Beer Writers for 2006. This is the second time he’s won this award, having also been given the honor in 2004. McFarland writes for various trade and national press in the UK, including the Publican, the Guardian and the Independent. Congratulations to Ben.
Here’s a fun piece he did for the Publican that includes a quiz to determine what kind of beer snob you are.
Urthel is Cooking in San Francisco
Save the date! Beer Chef Bruce Paton’s next beer dinner will feature brewster Hildegard van Ostaden and the Urthel beers of Brouwerij de Leyerth from Belgium. Hildegard made the first Imperial IPA in Belgium and as far as I know the first double outside of the U.S. It will be another four-course dinner, though Bruce is still working out the menu. I’ll get it up as soon as it’s available. It will be held at the Cathedral Hill Hotel on Monday, January 8, beginning with a reception at 6:30 p.m. Call 415.674.3406 for reservations. Make your reservations soon, because this dinner should fill up fast and you won’t want to miss this one. I met Bas and Hildegard in Denver a couple of years ago and they’re wonderful people, who make some very excellent beers. They’re part of a new breed of Belgian brewers who have taken some of their inspiration from their American counterparts.
Hildegard and Bas van Ostaden, owners of the Belgian-based Brouwerij de Leyerth.
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Dinner with the Brewmaster: Urthel
Cathedral Hill Hotel, 1101 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California
415.674.3406 [ website ]