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Blogs - Daniel Bradford - Web OnlyA Tasting Among Friends
October 30, 2014 - Daniel Bradford Recently I had a chance to sit down with the new company president, Chris Rice, and our beer wrangler, Adam Harold, over three different vintages of Alaskan Smoked Porter. Just to add to the pleasure, I brought out some Alaskan salmon and some smoked salmon. The beer reviews will be published in the January issue... View Article -
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June 16, 2014 - Daniel Bradford I recently spent a zany afternoon with Martin Dickie and James Watt, the two lads from BrewDog, the self-styled ‘”punk” Scottish brewery. They were in Durham, NC, to start filming the second season of their TV series “BREW DOGS.” This will open with a segment shot at Fullsteam Brewery, here in Durham—I should say our... View Article -
Blogs - Daniel Bradford - Web OnlyThe Young Turks and Old Lions of Breweries
July 3, 2013 - Daniel Bradford Once a year the whole world of craft brewers, and I do mean the whole world, gathers together for four days of catching up, digesting new ideas, staying up way too late, and, of course, tasting beer in limitless varieties. We call it the Craft Brewers Conference, this year held in Washington, DC. The All... View Article -
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The Events of Beer
June 28, 2012 - Daniel Bradford Dinners, tastings, festivals, seminars, gatherings of all sorts. It’s that time of year, folks, when every weekend and most weekdays there is an “event of beer” within driving distance of you. People coming together over beer. It’s why I like this job: people, beer and events. I go to bars with great draft systems, where... View Article -
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One Versus Many
June 19, 2012 - Daniel Bradford With apologizes to Star Trek fans and professional philosophers, herein lies my version of the One vs. the Many moral dilemma. Do I stick close to home with Old Faithful or do I prowl the ranks of the many trying out whatever, whomever, whenever? Every day after the labors of work, family, relationships and recreation... View Article -
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The Beer Fountain
May 30, 2012 - Daniel Bradford On my first trip to the British Isles, approximately 1 BB (that would be one year Before Beer), I set out to find an example of the legendary English pub. I’d grown up outside of Boston and had a romantic notion of a good public house, something not found at that time in my home state... View Article -
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Fritz Bows Out
May 21, 2012 - Daniel Bradford After nearly four decades of leading the craft brewing industry, Fritz Maytag of Anchor Brewery is stepping off the stage. Far from the end of an era, this sale of Anchor feels more like the next chapter, with a couple of industry talents stepping in with plans for a “Center of Excellence” to further support... View Article -
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On Counting Beer
May 15, 2012 - Daniel Bradford I found myself scrolling through a blog based on the goal of drinking 100 different beers in a month, an odd variation of the theme behind Julie and Julia. Put me in mind of the old drinking song: -
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Beer City USA
May 8, 2012 - Daniel Bradford For many decades I’ve loved the vibrancy of beer community. Kibitzing on a conversation about beer flavors at a World Beer Festival, buying a round of the newest at Tyler’s Taproom, leaning across a rough wooden table at Bull McCabe’s armed with a Fuller’s London Porter and a lot of opinions, standing up against the... View Article -
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The People Business
May 1, 2012 - Daniel Bradford When we were making plans for this themed issue focused on the people of the craft beer business, we came to an interesting conclusion. It would be too easy turn this into a celebrity-watcher issue, especially given all the “rock stars” now in our craft brewing industry. Some are so popular they get mobbed at festivals.... View Article -
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The Crusade Continues
April 23, 2012 - Daniel Bradford A few years into my job working for Charlie Papazian, I had become a convert to the complexity, beauty, variety and excitement of beer. My predisposition towards crusading defined my career choices going forward. For nearly three decades I’ve been an advocate of better beer, craft beer, specialty beer—whatever you want to call our oldest... View Article -
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On Wine and Great Beer
April 16, 2012 - Daniel Bradford Craft beer lovers are constantly faced with the world of wine. From aesthetics to bragging rights, we, in some fashion or another, have to come to grips with the other beverage’s role in the universe. It even goes gender with a pretty fun book pitting a celebrated brewer against a wine activist: He Said Beer,... View Article -
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Trends? I Think Not.
April 5, 2012 - Daniel Bradford A series of recent beer bar experiences challenged, in my mind, any idea of “trends” for the craft beer industry. I dropped by a pretty cool beer bar, the Busy Bee, for its 2nd anniversary celebration. The rare beer on that night was something made by Spike at Terrapin, which included maple syrup—Spike only agreed to work... View Article -
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The Unifying Power Of Beer
March 23, 2012 - Daniel Bradford For the longest of time, the exclusive provenance craft beer movement lay with the adventuresome Americans. -
Book Reviews - Full PintsThe Oxford Companion to Beer
March 1, 2012 - Daniel Bradford Rarely has a publication produced such an out-pouring of excitement, praise, analysis, criticisms—and, even—condemnation. To say this giant of a book is controversial could be the understatement of the year. -
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Accelerating Change
March 1, 2012 - Daniel Bradford I’m old enough to have a firm grasp on the former monoculture of beer. -
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Peeling Back the Layers
February 23, 2012 - Daniel Bradford As with virtually every consumable good, the monolithic world of beer has exploded into a culture focused on variety, diversity, ingenuity, creativity and unbridled excitement. -
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Some Great Festival News
September 23, 2011 - Daniel Bradford This year’s World Beer Festival – Durham has a few surprises for Triangle beer lovers. To begin with, we’re making some changes for the North Carolina breweries. We’ve set up a special tent just for our state’s own breweries with the help of Anna Lockhart, the President of the North Carolina Brewers Guild. Also, we... View Article -
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A Day of Casks
September 19, 2011 - Daniel Bradford What makes a perfect Saturday afternoon? For me it was being holed up in a fabulous joint with a bunch of beer lovers and brewers sampling from 10 local casks. Oh, and I can’t leave out the great food and the great weather. This is the second year for General Manager Derrick Smith and the... View Article -
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A College Beer Town
May 2, 2011 - Daniel Bradford A great thing about touring prospective colleges with my daughter Anne is that she is already well-heeled on the pleasures of a good beer scene. I had wanted to visit Dennis Thies’ Green Man Brewery for quite some time. Apparently we picked the perfect day. After a four-hour drive, we pulled up to the building as... View Article -
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The Hidden Charlotte Part 2
March 3, 2011 - Daniel Bradford The final phase of my Charlotte weekend occurred after the Pints for Prostates first annual board meeting. The Pints for Prostates’ board meeting went for quite some time as the board worked through some of the guiding principles of the organization and the future plans. It was some heavy lifting by a group of passionate... View Article -
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The Hidden Charlotte Part 1
February 28, 2011 - Daniel Bradford Recently, Rick Lyke invited me to join the board of directors for Pints for Prostates, a charity I’ve been fundraising for the past couple of years. A yes came quite easily and our first board meeting was this Saturday in Charlotte. You’ve got to love a board where the pre-meeting is scheduled in a place... View Article -
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Tuning my cask for Brew Your Cask Off cask ale festival
February 11, 2011 - Daniel Bradford After my last insipid, yet bizarre, entry into the competition for the SweetWater Brewing Co’s’ Brew Your Cask Off Cask Ale Festival (March 5th, SweetWater Brewery, 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm), the powers that be suggested I should pair up with some talent, like their brewer maybe? Was it that obvious? Steve Farace, marketing gonzo... View Article -
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On Giants and Stout
December 14, 2010 - Daniel Bradford Did you see the footage of the Vikings’ dome coming down? Pretty wild, and like good chaos theory it lead to a discovery of a great beer. I’m not such a fan of the NY Giants. Actually, I find being a fan an exercise in suffering, not something I’m fond of. However, I am a... View Article -
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Sam does Discovery Channel
November 23, 2010 - Daniel Bradford I’m sure you’ve all watched the Big Show — Sam and Dogfish Head take the Discovery Channel, and Sony, by storm. It was quite a romp actually. We got a great glimpse of Sam’s envelop-pushing, madcap, genius and a great look at the team of stalwarts who executes his vision. Fabulous combination. Meanwhile we also... View Article -
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Birth of a Brewery
August 28, 2010 - Daniel Bradford It’s rare that a beer lover gets to watch a brewery being born. However, years ago I offered a young man a job at the magazine for no apparent reason other than he seemed really interesting. Along the way he lead the charge to change the alcohol limit law in the state of North Carolina... View Article -
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Just a close knit beer family
August 27, 2010 - Daniel Bradford While running errands the other day I got a funny call from Andy at Triangle Brewing Co. He needed a favor. Now, you need to understand this. The Boys From Triangle are some very resourceful, self-reliant, guys not above some serious razzing and I’m one of their favorite targets. Andy calling me for some help? ... View Article -
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Okay, this is weird.
August 26, 2010 - Daniel Bradford I’m sitting down to watch an old movie with a bomber of Foothills Baltic Porter. Pop the cap and pour a nice tulip glass full of the dark liquid. I put the bottle on the coffee table and pick up the glass. Then I look at the open bottle. I put the cap back on... View Article -
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A night at the bar
August 20, 2010 - Daniel Bradford Some evenings can’t get much better. I’m such a sop for gatherings in the bar. This one tops the list however. After a bit late stay at work, I stopped in at a wonderful source of draft Fullers London Porter, Bull McCabe’s. Laura called and I invited her to join the musings at a bar.... View Article -
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Oregon Homebrewing Activities Illegal? Probably not for long.
July 13, 2010 - Daniel Bradford A recent ruling by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) has put a stop to any homebrew competition or homebrew gathering. They interpret the law, which refers to “home consumption,” to mean just that: consumption in a home, which means you make it in your home and you drink it in your home. They now... View Article -
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Getting Savor Right
June 21, 2010 - Daniel Bradford They did it again, those enthusiastic folks from the Brewers Association, Boulder, CO. The third annual Savor, the quintessence of beer and food events located in Washington DC, was a stunner with tickets selling out in minutes. Back at the National Building Museum, with its soaring columns, Savor meant fifteen stations with four breweries each,... View Article -
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Hidden Jems!
June 18, 2010 - Daniel Bradford What’s particularly cool about the craft beer industry are its hidden gems (like this post I just found hidden in the drafts folder!) that are rare and distinctive, those unique experiences which are so far removed from the tried and true comfortable local or favorite beer. This job allows me the opportunity to chase down... View Article -
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The Lupulin Reunuless at the Brickskeller
June 18, 2010 - Daniel Bradford Round three or four of the brewery young guns slam fest got seriously toned down this year. From previous years’ mash-ups, with heavy doses of bathroom humor, this beer maven summit transformed itself into an historical, sociological, political, aesthetic feast of rare talent gathered on one platform. Of course, it took the legendary Dave Alexander,... View Article -
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What’s with Homebrewers?
March 25, 2010 - Daniel Bradford I had the pleasure of once again addressing the James River Homebrew Club at one of their meetings at Legends Brewery, Richmond, VA. These are the guys who will be handling the beer for the upcoming World Beer Festival – Richmond, and a perfect bunch for the job without a doubt. So, how could I... View Article -
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And the Casks and Crowds Came
March 23, 2010 - Daniel Bradford What an event. A tent in the SweetWater Brewery parking lot full of more than 80 casks. Now, lest you think they were a bunch of English ales served cool but not cold and under-carbonated but not flat, each one represented the vision and aspirations of a person or a business with few ties, if... View Article -
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Brewing My Cask Off!
March 15, 2010 - Daniel Bradford As the cab pulled up to SweetWater Brewery, I knew there would be trouble. But for whom? -
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Beer and a Sense of Place
March 11, 2010 - Daniel Bradford Twice now, I’ve helped grow a beer community. First time was working for Charlie Papazian at the Association of Brewers where a posse pushed the Colorado beer culture into the stratosphere. The second was here in Durham, NC, where a wasteland has become a mecca in an eye blink. Both times, festivals were the leading... View Article -
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Which Beer To Have With A Cold?
March 7, 2010 - Daniel Bradford I have a cold, and I’m looking into my fridge. So, pairing geeks! What beer goes best with a cold? I’m not talking medicinal beers here. Guinness built that rep a century ago. No I’m talking about comfort as Duke and UNC face off. Given that my nose is pretty much out of commission and,... View Article -
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Loss of a Friend
January 14, 2010 - Daniel Bradford We lost a good one last Friday. After 4 years of fighting colon cancer, Jeff Becker, President of the Beer Institute passed away. We grieve for the loss of a good friend, a wonderful person and a passionate industry advocate. Jeff was one of the more interesting members of our industry. Consider being an unflappable... View Article -
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My 15 Minutes
January 14, 2010 - Daniel Bradford I think I might have just had my 15 minutes of fame. Folio Magazine, the trade publication for the magazine industry, asked if I would be on their cover and anchor a story on niche publications. Given their reputation for staid business shots, I was both surprised and flattered. When the photographer wanted to take... View Article -
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Speaking of Holidays and Beer
January 6, 2010 - Daniel Bradford I’m not such a fan of the New Year’s Eve schtick. I’ve watched the ball descend in Times Square and the acorn in Moore Square in Raleigh. I’ve toasted that last tick of the year with various champagnes. All in all I’m not so impressed with the rituals. As the end of the last day... View Article -
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Holidays Are for Beer
January 5, 2010 - Daniel Bradford Holidays can be tough for a good beer lover. So much of the fantastic offerings are serious, take no prisoner beers. Given the occasions seem to split among quiet, contemplative, romantic evenings at home; celebratory bar escapes with staff, professional types, and acquaintances; and afternoons/evenings at a friend’s houses executing conversations requiring serious start up... View Article -
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Judging in Columbia
December 10, 2009 - Daniel Bradford We’ve got a great World Beer Festival coming up in January here in Columbia, South Carolina, and we’re working again with the Palmetto State Homebrew Club. So, I was happy to drive down in order to spend last Saturday judging entries for the annual Palmetto Open homebrew competition. Homebrewers personify the leading edge of the... View Article -
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Beer Roadie Part Two
November 2, 2009 - Daniel Bradford By Owen Ogletree Day Three – October 28, Richmond Our group of liver-weary beer travelers awakens on Wednesday to sunny morning skies and heads toward downtown Durham to meet Daniel from Tyler’s for breakfast. While enjoying our coffee and eggs, we hit a bit of serendipity and run into Daniel Bradford (who cooks up the... View Article -
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Guest blogger
October 30, 2009 - Daniel Bradford A good friend, Owen Ogletree, is on the road with some beer dudes with four days of beer dinners across the southeast. We asked Owen to take you along for the ride. I’m posting it here because we haven’t completed the transformation of our website. Enjoy, Daniel Beer Roadie Blog: By Owen Ogletree Four beer dinners... View Article -
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When Tricky Beers Work Well
October 16, 2009 - Daniel Bradford I got a great invite from Ryan, the local New Belgium guy, to preview Fall Wild Ale, a new release from Colorado’s New Belgium Brewery. He was debuting this beer at an unheralded beer bar, Broad St. Cafe, here in Durham. I went expecting something interesting, exciting, edgy — like so many of the specialty beers from... View Article -
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Hoisting the 14th World Beer Festival — Durham
October 9, 2009 - Daniel Bradford This one was impatiently awaited. The City had spent a few million renovating the Durham Athletic Park and all eyes were on the Beer Fest, as it’s known locally. Although the Blues Fest had taken the renovated park for a trial spin, All About Beer Magazine’s World Beer Festival would really put it through its... View Article -
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Sequence and Balance
October 8, 2009 - Daniel Bradford Last night I hit a few bars with a good friend, Eric. We first went to one of my regular stops, Bull McCabes Irish Pub, where I had a long time favorite, Fuller’s London Porter on draft. A perfectly poured Fuller’s London Porter, in a nice dimpled mug, just defies explanation. It just is. I love... View Article -
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Sunday at the airport
September 28, 2009 - Daniel Bradford There is something surreal about Sunday morning at the Denver airport after four days of the Great American Beer Festival. The bright, stark light of the Colorado plains has replaced the muted hues of the festival interior. Gone are the roars of the crowds, the beer talks, the presentations, replaced by the dampened tones of... View Article -
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A Sensory Rush
September 26, 2009 - Daniel Bradford After Vegas came Denver. After wholesalers came beer lovers. After hotels came the fest hall. This is the Big Daddy of all beer festivals. Forget Munich in the fall. Denver is the place to be if you love beer. The Great American Beer Festival stands alone among beer events. It’s not just the mammoth number... View Article -
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Rare Beer Tasting Soars
September 26, 2009 - Daniel Bradford Sometimes everything works out so well you just stand there grinning. Such was the case with the first Denver Rare Beer Tasting held at the Wynkoop Brewery during Great American Beer Festival week. Twenty-four breweries each presented one rare beer to the 450 lucky ticket holders. There were about 60 brewery reps on hand to... View Article -
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Beer Guys in Vegas
September 23, 2009 - Daniel Bradford The incessant clicking, whirring, and buzzing. All the drop dead beautiful women who smile at you and want to know how you’re doing. The hordes of glazed eyed wondering consumers. Welcome to Vegas, a place unto its own. Every other year the National Beer Wholesalers Association holds a conference and trade show in Vegas. And... View Article -
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The Way Saturday Should be.
September 8, 2009 - Daniel Bradford Last weekend, the one before Labor Day, I had what could be considered a perfect beer lovers Saturday. Dawn came early as I got on the road for a two hour drive to Richmond and the James River HomeBrewer’s Dominion Cup. Yes, I was judging homebrew. (Remember the original premise of this blog? Well, after... View Article -
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Boylan Bridge
August 14, 2009 - Daniel Bradford I used to use this phrase “peak pub moment” to describe that ineffable zone that can surround a location, an amount of time, a group of people and a beer. I distinctly remember one of the earliest of these, a Sunday afternoon at Wynkoop Brewery in Denver that reminded me of how delicious life can... View Article -
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Cask Rauch
August 13, 2009 - Daniel Bradford Last night our local brewery, Triangle Brewing Co., tapped a cask of their rauch beer at Tyler’s, our local multi-tap bar. A few of the local beer glitterati were there, but mostly it was just a couple All About Beer Magazine staff people and Andy from Triangle. In other words, a great conversation opportunity. Despite... View Article -
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Remember me?
July 1, 2009 - Daniel Bradford I had this great idea about spending time on becoming a beer expert and writing about it. A nice journey, accompanied by some friends. Didn’t life and work get in the way of that. We’ve had several amazing months at the office, adding a few more people, another festival, setting up the restructuring of the magazine,... View Article -
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Mirror and Sam
May 7, 2009 - Daniel Bradford After a ridiculously silly hour or so at the gym, I hadn’t earned a trip to the pub, and, instead, went home for leftovers and whatever was in the fridge. I lucked out! Not with the leftovers; that was my curry from the night before. Not bad, but not memorable. No, I had forgotten that... View Article -
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America’s Craft Brewers Pondering the Future
May 5, 2009 - Daniel Bradford Two weeks ago America’s craft brewers gathered under one roof for the Brewers’ Association, their trade association’s, annual confab. Attendance crested 3,000 while exhibitors packed the hall. And the buzz was all about the nature of the future for this vulnerable industry segment. The industry still posted growth, but less so than past years. ... View Article -
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Why so much silence?
May 5, 2009 - Daniel Bradford I am simply not making the mental and behaviorial transition from publishing a magazine to blogging. People keep telling me that it’s about frequency not depth, conversations and not exegesis. I guess I’m simply not that quick or spontaneous. My daughter likes to remind me that I’m not a chatter. Furthermore, the past three weeks... View Article -
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Beer Wars Live Redux
April 17, 2009 - Daniel Bradford Beer Wars Live has come and gone, with extremely mixed reviews. I have to say it wasn’t a bad way to spend an evening, but it was rife with issues. A half full theatre with raucous, interactive beer lovers, who cheered, applauded and laughed throughout the two hours. And the film and panel certainly... View Article -
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BeerWars, an interview
April 8, 2009 - Daniel Bradford During my recent travels there has been quite a buzz about a new documentary on the beer industry. I thought I’d get on the phone with Anat Baron, the force behind Beer Wars, the somewhat controversial movie playing April 16th — and only April 16th — at 440 very select movie theaters. What’s the story/moment that got... View Article -
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Thoughts on my time at Siebel Institute of Technology
April 7, 2009 - Daniel Bradford I intend to spend some time this week writing about the amazing four days I spent at the Seibel Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, taking their Master of Beer Styles and Evaluation Course, which is a four day intensive course and everyone, I mean everyone, who is really into craft beer should take. The 3... View Article -
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Off the beaten track
April 6, 2009 - Daniel Bradford While I have tons of stuff to write up from my four days at the Siebel Institute, I thought I’d give you readers a heads-up on a series of pieces coming out on two blogs. http://maureenogle.com/2009/04/first-draft-follies-early-history-of-the-american-homebrewers-association-part-2/ and http://www.examiner.com/x-241-Beer-Examiner~y2009m4d6-Relax-dont-worry-have-a-homebrew-insights-on-history?cid=examiner-email It’s about the early days of the American Homebrewers Association. For those of you that aren’t aware... View Article -
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Sticking a Toe into Philadelphia Beer Week
March 23, 2009 - Daniel Bradford I realized after writing this whole thing, I’m doing the beer journalist stuff. I’m writing up the notes of a trip I took thinking that you’re interested in hearing about it, as in getting a feel for something. You know, photos and facts with some picture painting tossed in. To be quite honest, that could... View Article -
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Extreme follows the Night
March 20, 2009 - Daniel Bradford The next day I returned to the Cyclorama for round two of the Alstrom Three Throw a Party! However, this time I brought a bug. Somehow, during the previous evening with my nose stuck in all those different barrel-aged beers, I’d managed to catch some version of a cold or flu. (Little did I know... View Article -
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Lawyers and their beers
March 20, 2009 - Daniel Bradford I’ve got a great deal with the best lawyer in the Southeast. Fred Hutchison specializes in the sort of work we need to grow our business, helping get us to where we are today. He’s been there helping us with more than one sticky wicket. Aside from the usual compensation, what the good folks at... View Article -
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The Brothers Alstrom throw a party
March 19, 2009 - Daniel Bradford Yes, it has been a few weeks since the Night of the Barrels and the Extreme Beer Festival, but I’m not the world’s fastest writer (or thinker for that matter)—hey, I’m still trying to run a magazine and a few festivals. But regardless, I need to get up to speed. (Thank you Stan, Steve, Jay,... View Article -
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This thing called The Club
March 18, 2009 - Daniel Bradford Awhile ago, on a trip to Baltimore with a bunch of city leaders, I was outed as a beer guy. After all of the different meetings about how Baltimore got so cool, the bunch of us headed to Fells Point looking for a fun evening. As you might guess I don’t particularly fit into the... View Article -
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“Beer Wars,” don’t miss it!
March 17, 2009 - Daniel Bradford The blog-o-sphere is abuzz with a new film on beer. (Barley Vine, Beer Philosopher, Brookstone, My Beer Pix, etc.) Beer hasn’t fared very well in American made moves, fiction or not, which will all change in April thanks to Anat Baron and her movie titled “Beer Wars.” Beer Wars looks at the emergence of American craft brewers and... View Article -
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On becoming an “Expert!”
March 3, 2009 - Daniel Bradford Stan Hieronymous visited for a couple days with his wife, and colleague, Daria Labinsky, and the precocious nearly teenage daughter Sierra. (A fun moment, eavesdropping on Sierra and my daughter Anne kavetching about being the children of beer people; “So, like are you so completely sick of breweries, yet, or what!”) Of the many conversations... View Article -
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A beer landed on my desk
February 25, 2009 - Daniel Bradford This will be different. Instead of acting like a writer and laboring over a piece with various staff members looking over my shoulder to make sure I’m not a complete idiot, I want to tell you about this cool beer I just had, that would be 3:00 p.m. EST. Like I said recently, nice life... View Article -
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Triangle Cask Ale at Tyler’s
February 23, 2009 - Daniel Bradford We run our business a little differently, something you can do if you publish a magazine about beer and put on events about beer. We have two staff meetings a week — Monday morning sets the week up and Friday afternoon closes it, which we do every week at Tyler’s Taproom, Durham’s largest multitap bar. Nearly... View Article -
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A Big Beer Ladder
February 12, 2009 - Daniel Bradford Quite often being the publisher of a beer magazine is just too cool. Like yesterday. The public relations people from one of my all time favorite brewers, Boston Beer, sent me a box half the size of my desk. In it were three four-packs of their “Imperial Series,” each bottle individually wrapped. And I’m... View Article -
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The Four Events of Sexual Chocolate!
February 11, 2009 - Daniel Bradford I went to a limited release party, my first, at Foothills Brewery, down the street in Winston Salem for the release of Sexual Chocolate in bottles. What an event! Actually four events linked together. Prior to the release of Sexual Chocolate, Foothills Brewery hosted what could only be called a beer swap, which became a... View Article -
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Fest a Success, a New Book to Read and a Grovel or Two
January 30, 2009 - Daniel Bradford The Columbia version of the World Beer Festival was wonderful. With two other very mature, very savvy events, I’d forgotten how much fun a beer festival in a new, fresh town could be. The average age was higher. People talked beer with the brewers, with each other. They took notes in the program book. (Shazaam!)... View Article -
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Festival Weekend
January 24, 2009 - Daniel Bradford It’s festival weekend in Columbia, South Carolina. Our third World Beer Festival concept. After 15 years in Durham, 5 years in Raleigh, we’re adding a third in a new state. Which means a lot of public relations time for me, leading me to this whole idea of becoming an “expert.” One reader simply asked if... View Article -
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BOB Begins.
January 21, 2009 - Daniel Bradford BOB Begins. I’m not sure how this voyage, Bradford on Beer or BOB, really begins. I simply want to become an expert on beer. After all these years in the industry I want to invest the time in learning about this beverage I love and have worked for all these years. It’s going to be... View Article -
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A beginning
January 19, 2009 - Daniel Bradford This is the beginning of my adventure into the world of beer, and only beer. I haven’t started the trip, yet. Consider this a placeholder comment. Cheers, Daniel