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ACB covers craft beer news, entertainment and lifestyle 24/7, and we’d like to think we do a decent job. But there’s a lot of great craft beer journalism out there – and here some recent beer articles that we enjoyed and you might want to check out.
Devils Backbone Banned From Awards They Were Hosting
Actions have consequences and the fact that Devils Backbone, Virginia’s largest and most decorated brewery, chose to be acquired by Anheuser-Busch in April, wasn’t wasted on the Virginia Brewers Guild who sponsor the Virginia Craft Beer Cup awards annually. In spite of the fact that Devils Backbone has been holding those awards on their own brewery grounds since their inception in 2012 the guild decided that the brewery no longer independent and therefore ineligible to participate in this year’s contest. And you can read more about all this super-awkward situation in Fritz Hahn’s brilliant “craft brewery gets kicked out of its own festival.”
Best Beer Gardens In Washington, DC
It appears that great German-style beer gardens (or Biergartens as purists insist) are no longer just province of the “motherland.” In fact the whole biergarten thing is spreading like wildfire and now even the United States is home to some great ones. Last week we showcased some great beer gardens in the nation’s capital. But that’s only the beginning, because CNN recently highlighted 9 of America’s best beer gardens and every one of them sound like a blast!
Beer For Breakfast
It’s true that more of us have partaken in the “breakfast beer” experience than we’ll ever own up to up. And although we’re not recommending it as a regular activity, like it or not that’s just the truth. To make matters worse some craft breweries are jumping on the breakfast beer bandwagon, and that Mental Floss just collected 6 delicious breakfast-themed beers for you to check out.
