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Brews News - Friday, July 26, 2013

Entourage-star, Adrian Grenier's beer company, Churchkey, is STILL on hiatus. (via Brewbound)

It should come as no surprise that craft beer is the centerpiece of director Joe Swanberg’s new romantic dramedy “Drinking Buddies,” because the man is a massive beer geek. (via TODAY)

The Great American Beer Festival 2013 tickets go on sale NEXT WEEK. With over 49,000 attendees with the opportunity to sample approximately 600 breweries, this event is widely-considered America's premier beer festival and competition. Held October 10th through October 12th in Denver, Colorado. (via BeerPulse)

Golden Road Brewing Company (a local-LA favorite of mine) is on a quest to be the biggest little hometown brewery (via Inc.)

If a bar or tavern serves a customer 20 alcoholic drinks, and that customer later kills or injures someone in their intoxicated state, should the establishment be held liable? Maryland Court of Appeals ruled today on that decision. (via CBS DC)

The Boston Beer Company's Samuel Adams Octoberfest began to make its way out to the market in recent days. It will also begin making debuts in cans this time around! Additionally, Samuel Adams announced that their newest addition to the Barrel Room Collection, Tetravis Belgian Quadrupel will begin rolling out as early as August to some markets. (via BeerPulse, BeerPulse)

EEK! According to Smithsonian Magazine, beer drinking reportedly increases chances of mosquito bites. (via Smithsonian Magazine)

By the year's end, San Diego's Green Flash plans to be in 48 states! (via BeerPulse)

Sweet Home Alabama - Y'all will be drinking Stone IPA soon! Additionally, Nebraska is celebrating that beginning August 20th, the San Diego's brewing company's beers will be available in bars, restaurants and retail outlets for the first time! (via BeerPulse, BeerPulse)

Ken Grossman's new book, Beyond the Pale: The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., will be released on August 26th! (via Wiley Publisher)

“Brew Dogs” premieres September 24 at 10 p.m. on the Esquire Network. It stars Scottish “beer evangelists” with a vital mission: to prove that the drink of the masses doesn’t need to taste mass-produced. Despite the hype, the ASA, the UK advertising watchdog, cautioned and ruled against BrewDog for the use of foul language on their site. Brew Dogs's response: #kissmyASA (via Esquire, Drum, BeerPulse)

Deschutes Brewery is testing out frozen hops, which are said to preserve more flavor and result in a higher quality beer (via Idaho Press-Tribune)

Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un wants Germany's Paulaner brewery to build a Bavarian brew pub in the North Korean capital. (via Quartz)

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The title alone is enough to know I will be seeing DRINKING BUDDIES starring Olivia Wilde, Anna Kendrick, Jake Johnson and Ron Livingston. Theatrical release is August 23rd via Magnolia Pictures, but as of TODAY on iTunes, it's available to rent for $9.99! 

Now.... what to drink?

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In honor of the premiere of the second half of the final series, Breaking Bad is getting its own local tribute beer appropriately titled "Heisenberg's Dark."

If you've read my blog before, you know I have two obsessions that I like to combine: television and craft beer. Four months ago, I paired AMC's Breaking Bad with one of my favorite New York brews, Blue Point Brewing Company's Blueberry Ale. Obviously, Heisenberg's blue ice meth was the clear influence for my favorite blueberry ale. I had attempted to find an Albuquerque-based blueberry ale, but alas, none could be found. But with Ommegang starting the TV-Beer trend and the finale of Breaking Bad looming (NO, BITCH!), Marble Brewery announced the release of the India Black Ale with an EPIC Instagram photo featuring some famous-bald headed locals. 

Considering the history and palette of an India Black Ale, I don't think Marble Brewery could have chosen a better style to represent the villain protagonist in AMC's long-running, Emmy-awarding drama.

American craft brewers' love affair with hops and the constant push to innovate new ways of using them lead to the creation of the American Black Ale (ABA), otherwise known as the India Black Ale. It supposedly originated in Vermont in 1994, but didn't gain a surge of popularity until 2007 when the Cascadian Dark Ale took off in the Pacific Northwest region. While similar to the India Pale Ale, the malt bill is modified to include highly kilned or roasted malts that give the brew a dark brown or black appearance. That still doesn't affect the aromas however - the aggressive hop portfolio from the end of the boil and dry-hopping ranges from grassy, spicy, floral, citrus, and pine. No matter what its color may be, the Black Ale still relies on the pillars of IPA structure: a malt flavor backbone that is dominated by the heart of ample bitterness and hop flavor. 

With vigorous hop additions that kicks the corners of your mouth, a bittered mouthfeel taste throughout a gulp, and the black-as-Heisenburg's-soul shade, Marble Brewery's Heisenburg's Dark says: I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS!

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Seattle’s Pike Brewery says: a woman’s place is in the brewery. Damn right.

(via King 5 Seattle)

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