Celebrate Lager Beer! Lager, from the German for storehouse, is a lower hop beer using bottom fermenting yeast and stored at colder temperatures. They may be pale, golden, amber or dark in color. Examples of the style include: Pilsner, Bock, Marzen, Dunkel and Helles.

National Pretzel Day celebrates pretzels of all shapes and sizes. How do you like your pretzel? Thick or thin? Straight or twisted? Crisp and crunchy, or soft? Salted, unsalted, mustard flavored, perhaps? There's no shortage of types of pretzels. If you are having trouble deciding which ones, we suggest you mix a bunch of different […]

National Hangover Day is observed annually on January 1st.  The day follows New Years Eve, a day that traditionally is spent celebrating to bring in the New Year. How to Prevent that Hangover Eat – A fat and protein loaded meal before or during the first round of drinks will slow the absorption of alcohol […]

Beer Can Appreciation Day recognizes when beer was first sold in cans. The “official” birthday of the beer can is January 24, 1935. That's the day cans of Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale first went on sale in Richmond, VA. But the beer can really made its debut some 14 months earlier – just before […]

  Since 2013, craft brewers with an interest in making gruit ales have banded together to mark February 1 as International Gruit Day. The day is intended to pay homage to the historical traditions of brewing with botanicals. What is Gruit Ale? https://www.gruitday.com/what-is-gruit-ale/   https://www.gruitday.com/2017participants/

Sponsored by our friends at Dogfish Head, the 14th annual Extreme Beer Fest returns to celebrate brewers who push the boundaries of brewing. Because it's never too early to prepare for epicness.

Rapscallion's annual Winterfest event featuring their 2017 Winterfest ale, food and live music from bluesman Big Jon Short and bluegrass band Livestock.

The 2nd Annual Springfield on Tap is coming to the Young Building inside Eastern States Exposition on Saturday, February 4th from 2pm-5pm, or upgrade to the VIP session from 12:30pm-5pm! Sample over 130 releases from some of America’s best craft breweries!

Join the BeerAdvocate crew as they head to Night Shift Brewing for their February Throwdown! They'll buy a few pints and tear it up BA style. As a bonus, the Munch Mobile Kitchen food truck will be on site. They'll post the beer list and any additional details as we get closer to the event. […]

In observance of President's Day here are some presidential factoids about our (and their) beloved drink: beer! Presidential Beer History: http://q103albany.com/presidential-beer-history/ LEADERS OF THE BEER WORLD: THE BEST AND WORST PRESIDENTS (WHEN IT COMES TO BEER): http://allaboutbeer.com/article/leaders-of-the-beer-world-the-best-and-worst-presidents-when-it-comes-to-beer/ Presidential Beer Trivia: http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/14-facts-beer-and-us-presidents