Story and photos by Tonya Vots, correspondent
While some may argue that the top beer news in Georgia for 2011 is the end of a statewide ban on Sunday alcohol sales, craft beer fans in the …

A whole slew of Georgia cities and municipalities will start allowing package sales of beer and other adult libations beginning January 1, 2012, the first time in decades that they’ve been able to legally do …

From micros to macros, breweries around the world release their holiday ales and lagers this time of the year, some to glowing reviews, and others to not-so-kind remarks.
And then there’s Piggly Wiggly.
The grocery chain with …

There will be a fantastic opportunity next week to meet one of the legends of the brewing world at one of the finest breweries in Florida.
The American Homebrewers Association will hold its final AHA Rally …

Results of referendums across Georgia overwhelmingly favored allowing alcohol sales on Sunday, but because local municipalities voted individually, it will still require road trippers to do some research to know where they can legally buy …

Sunday beer and liquor package sales in Georgia soon could become a reality after decades of a statewide ban that permits only restaurants to serve alcohol on that day. And any concerted opposition to lifting …

Beer lovers in Utah’s third-largest city can now more conveniently buy beer on Sundays.
The Provo City Council voted earlier this month to lift a ban on the Sunday beer sales in grocery and convenience store.
Granted, …

Anyone heading to the Great American Beer Festival this weekend will be tasting some great beer, meeting old friends and making new ones, and just taking in the scene in one of the nation’s best …

Road Trips for Beer had a lot of fun reporting on last year’s Stella Artois World Draught Masters Competition, beginning with a semi-final competition in Orlando (which we covered live) to the world championship in …

Road Trips for Beer, both the trips and this website, exist because of the many small breweries that produce beer hyper-locally or in limited regions. Touring some of the large breweries, such as Anheuser-Busch in …

America’s Finest Beer Festival, scheduled for this weekend in Southern California, has been canceled at the last minute.
In a letter posted to the festival’s website, the organizers said that the cancellation was “due to a …

Beer certainly isn’t the only fermented alcoholic beverage out there. The same basic brewing rules apply to mead, sake and hard cider. But have you ever heard of Kombucha? I’m sure some of you had, …

When Nova Scotia brewery Alexander Keith’s decided to introduce three new beers into the United States, it embraced a novel way to do it.
It contacted a variety of beer writers, including Road Trips for Beer …

If you’re road tripping in Northern California, take note of this: Firestone Walker Brewing Co. is releasing its 2011 Parabola, a fantastic Russian imperial stout, on Saturday, May 21. This is only the second year …

The Brewers Association, the Boulder, Colorado-based craft beer advocacy group, provides a wealth of information about American Craft Beer Week, being celebrated this year from May 16 to 22.
The BA sent out an email Thursday …

Road Trips for Beer recently gave away a pair of tickets to the International Beer Fest taking place Friday and Saturday at the I-X Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The post announcing the contest also offers …

Brewers, Ten-Hut!
Have you ever wanted to brew beer for the U.S. Army? Well, here’s your chance.
The Army is seeking a civilian brewmaster to be based in Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Here are the job duties, …

The last time we took a road tip through Georgia,  the statewide prohibition against package sales of alcohol on Sunday caught us by surprise.
News just came down that Gov. Nathan Deal has signed Senate Bill …

Lots of beer geeks also lay claim to being regular geeks, and crossovers with such nerd-a-licious events as the annual Comic-Con are not uncommon. But for those whose geekdom extends only to the enjoyment and …

It’s been widely reported that Prince William and Kate Middleton have banned beer at the reception for their much over-hyped wedding Friday. According to an unnamed source in a Daily Mirror story, “Let’s face it, …

Evil twins have been a staple of popular culture probably since the conception of the idea that good and evil are opposites. From prehistoric mythology to “The Man in the Iron Mask” to “Star Trek” …

In a stunning blow to the world of craft beer, the globe’s largest beer companies announced this morning that they have merged into one mega-giant spirits company and have acquired every craft brewery in the …

Did you ever ask your parents, “How come there’s a Father’s Day and a Mother’s Day, but there isn’t a Children’s Day?”
The answer inevitably was, “Every day is Children’s Day.”
I never quite understood that answer, …

Though homes, businesses and boats were damaged, no lives were lost when The Aloha State was hit by a tsunami generated by the horrific earthquake in Japan on Friday. One of the properties damaged, though, …

I’d like to invite you to visit my new beer blog, Beer in Florida.
Its existence owes itself to a few factors:

I live in Florida and visit a lot of beer places that don’t quite fit …