Jim Koch, the founder and brewer of Samuel Adams, started out as a home brewer himself.  He has always been a vocal supporter and great champion of the home brew hobby.    Samuel Adams holds a contest every year called Longshot, where they allow home brewers all over the country to submit their beer and [...]

The judging has concluded and the winners of the 2009 Great American Beer Festival have been chosen and posted online.  There were 495 breweries entered into this years competition and they entered an impressive 3308 beers.  With 132 judges, that’s an average of 25 beers per judge.  Not a bad gig!
There were 78 different categories [...]

I am sitting here, reading blog posts, watching videos and following tweets from the Great American Beer Festival and have nothing but envy that I couldn’t make it this year.   It looks like so much fun, I am adding a new goal to my list this year.  I am going to the Great American Beer [...]