With nearly 800 breweries sampling thousands of beers, the Great American Beer Festival is the pre-eminent craft beer festival in the country. Craft Beer Cellar Fort Collins is just over an hour away from the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, where the GABF is held. It’s well worth the trip if you’re in Colorado for […]
Meet Craft Beer Cellar’s Advanced Cicerones™
At Craft Beer Cellar, education is a passion. We love constantly learning about beer, and passing that on to our customers. And we enjoy learning from our customers, too. All of our Beer Geeks are, at minimum, Cicerone Certified Beer Servers. This is the first of four certification levels, with each step requiring far more […]
Style of the Month, August 2017: Pale Ales
Pale ales didn’t really exist until the 18th century, when improvements in malt drying technology enabled malt to be kilned dry without heavily toasting the kernels. These new lighter beers were instant successes and would go on to define British brewing for the next two centuries, while also finding footholds in the eclectic Belgian brewing […]
Co-Founder Suzanne Schalow’s Master Cicerone® Results
I still get very little time off, after nearly six years with Craft Beer Cellar’s flagship store in Belmont, Mass. and, of course, the emergence of Craft Beer Cellar – The Brand; 24 stores open and operating in 11 states, and 17 in-planning. It’s been a welcomed, overwhelming elation of excitement and butt-kicking work, all […]
Orval Day: March 26th, 2016
On March 26th, 2016, Craft Beer Cellar will honor Orval with tastings and educational sessions at all Craft Beer Cellar locations! The legend began almost 1000 years ago when a widow dropped her wedding ring into a fountain. It was returned by a resident trout and because of this blessing, she decided to establish a […]
What the F*ck is a Landbier?
We asked this very question when we heard that House Lager, the latest release from Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham, MA, was a German Landbier. We were curious as to what this beer was all about but we couldn’t find anything in the BJCP (Beer Judge Certification Program) Style Guidelines on Landbier. We did […]
Cloudy with a chance of Turbidity
A few months ago, I was at a bar and ordered an IPA. When it arrived, I picked up the glass and commented to my friend, “Look how turbid this is.” The bartender overheard my comment, and felt compelled to defend the unexpectedly cloudy IPA by explaining that the opaque quality of the beer was […]
Brewland: An Adventure in Craft Beer Filmmaking
What started as a relatively small project has become an intensive, multi-year effort. And Michael Sills wouldn’t have it any other way. Over two years ago, Sills and his crew set out to interview three Vermont brewers that helped turn the state into one of the meccas of American craft brewing: John Kimmich of The […]
The “I Don’t Cook” Guide to Beer Pairings
A good food and beer pairing can be a wonderful experience. On one end of the spectrum, you’ll see a lot of beer pairings for foods such as mussels, gruyere cheese and Belgian endive salad. These are all well and good, but mussels take some effort, and Belgian endive salad requires having Belgian endive on […]
#CBConTour: Great American Beer Festival!
With over 700 breweries pouring more than 3,500 different beers, The Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado represents the largest collection of U.S beer ever served. If you followed #CBConTour earlier this month, you got a first-hand look at this MASSIVE festival (October 2-4, 2014 was the 22nd GABF, and it has grown every […]