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With each brewery and cidery assigned a different work of art, it's only apt that Great Notion's canvas for inspiration is where they source some of the fruits for their most popular beers, Sauvie Island. One of 18 featured art pairings at next Saturday's Art & Beer: Pitchering Oregon exhibition.

A win at the GABF competition is a HUGE deal. Winning a Gold, Silver or Bronze medal in any one of this year’s 98 beer categories can put a new brewery or brewpub on the map. But the Gold Medal is almost sacred...And here’s who took the gold this year!

For the last fifteen years, the American Homebrewers Association has run an online poll asking its members, who clearly know their beer, to vote for up to 20 of their favorite commercial beers. Zymurgy, (the journal of the AHA), recently released the results – and we’ve got some of the highlights for you.

We’ve apparently swilled our way to the 36th state on our list, The Sooner State, Oklahoma. The nickname comes from the opening of the state’s “Indian Territory,” in 1889, to settlers.

The long established craft brewers are downsizing because their model, built on the three tier distribution system, is now being nudged off shelves by fast-growing upstarts with unique offerings, a growing retail market of locally focused brewpubs and mass-produced “craft brands” owned by established macro brewers.

We view the craft beer biz as an entertainment industry…And like many entertainments (movies, TV and music) craft breweries sometimes fashion clever “catch phrases” as marketing tools to both attract you and playfully define themselves…And here are some that we’ve enjoyed.

The craft beer industry doesn’t want for opinions, it’s a passionate community and everybody’s got a take. So we recently asked our friends in the biz to weigh in on what they thought were today’s most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED beer styles. And here is just some of what the beer professionals we asked, thought

We blame the industry for this… It used to be that when we wrapped up our Weekend Picks on Friday, we could coast through the weekend. But clearly all that’s changed. So here’s some of what’s happened in the world of craft beer while you were off enjoying yourself.

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 you might want to check out.

Summer will soon be giving way to early fall and we’ve all the right beers for the season’s eventual transition. Plus we’ve some interesting new offerings from Anchor Brewing and Flying Dog that you’ll want to get your sweaty little hands on.