Microbrewing

Week after week, "Parks" draws a bead on our national obsessions and lets us laugh at them the way we probably should: the fads for microbrewing, interventions and so-vile-they're-hip band names e.g., Mouse Rat; the proliferation of crass and idiotic morning drive-time shows and the ways the media creates circuses of crises so it can report on them. ❋ Nancy DeWolf Smith (2011)

In 1996, she moved to Fort Collins, Colo., a hub of the nascent microbrewing business at the time, taking a job as a cocktail waitress and trying her first beer love: Tommyknocker Maple Nut Brown Ale. ❋ Nancy Keates (2011)

Chapple-Sokol is the beer writer for foodie blog The Humble Gourmand, and describes his Obama microbrewing adventure here. ❋ Eddie Gehman Kohan (2008)

Now, after a half century of Prohibition-era legal opprobrium, and the recent surge in microbrewing, the brewpub is reborn, opening at the rate of one per week across the country. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Samuel Adams Brewing was able to capitalize on the popularity of its small-batch manufacturing to introduce the concept of “microbrewing” as distinct from the mass-produced beers, yet Miller Brewing failed to distinguish light beer as anything other than a brand extension. ❋ Unknown (2007)

John Hickenlooper has been witness to a similar experience - although not as adverse as the current downturn - when as a geologist was caught up in the the oil bust of the 80's, he pursued the then fledging microbrewing industry and established a successful business. mikeg2 wrote: I think whats more alarming than Hick thinking this is in our heads, is, that he has no creative ideas coming forth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mason reports on the ongoing search for the Venn diagram showing the intersection of microbrewing and science geeks: ❋ Unknown (2010)

Taking inspiration from a growing Eastern Canadian microbrewing community, headed up by operations like ❋ Unknown (2010)

NOVATO - Sources in the microbrewing industry reported Monday that Novato-based Griffin Group has acquired San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Co., considered the pioneer in America's craft brewing movement in the post-Prohibition era. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Much of the American microbrewing revolution was built on the strong, idiosyncratic personalities of visionary, risk-taking homebrewers who turned their hobby into a thriving industry. ❋ Unknown (2010)

John Hickenlooper has been witness to a similar experience - although not as adverse as the current downturn - when as a geologist was caught up in the the oil bust of the 80's, he pursued the then fledging microbrewing industry and established a successful business. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Committed to learning more about the burgeoning microbrewing scene of the early-1990s, Farley scored an internship at James Page, a Minneapolis-based microbrewery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Through interviews with sixteen different microbrewery and brewpub owners and operators, this documentary takes stock of the how and the why of microbrewing in the shadow of Pabst and Schlitz. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And that a generation of 1980s home-brewers is yielding another microbrewing boom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The microbrewing movement started in the 1980s as an answer to what we know as "American Pilsner". ❋ Erik Hare (2009)

[Damn], that Saint-Ambroise is a [good] [Microbrew]. ❋ G.H. Hadden (2005)

New [Belgium] [Brewing] Company used to make microbrews but since becoming a widely popular beer company its [brews] have changed status and become premium (American) domestic beers. ❋ Molly C (2007)

[Cyrus]: man, I can't believe [the weekend's] over, this [week's] gonna kick my ass Mike: cheer up mate, it's the best day of the week... Microbrew Monday! Cyrus: oh yeah you're right! Monday is the new Friday! ❋ Micro Brewly (2011)

Q: You have a [headache] from last night? A: No, but I've got the string-cheesey [poops] bad... Microbrew Ass [something fierce]! ❋ ClownShoe (2011)