Beer in the Bavarian Alps
By Owen OgletreeOwen enjoys a liter of lager.Munich ranks as a delightful beer city - filled with personable taverns, beer gardens and scrumptious Bavarian lagers and wheat beers, but to experience the...
View ArticleBrewtopia's Italian Beer Trip Video
Here are video highlights of our Brewtopia group beer trip to Italy that took place in February of 2016. Owen Ogletree took 30 craft beer writers, pub owners, retail beer shop owners and craft beer...
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Lincoln Fill Station in Belgium!Tiny, Steph, Brad & Tara just returned from a beer tour in Belgium.Summary by Tiny McClannan of Lincoln Fill Stationin Snellville, GA. This amazing beer tour was...
View ArticleBrewtopia's Belgium Group Beer Tour - October 2016
The Best of Belgian Ales!Owen Ogletree took a group of 22 beer writers, beer retailers, pub owners and beer enthusiasts on an epic tour of all corners of Belgium on October 9-15, 2016.Spots visited...
View ArticleBeer Styles Best-of-Show Tasting Results
Owen Ogletree picked ten craft beers from around the Southeast - each representing a different BJCP style - and worked with craft beer enthusiasts Ashton Smith, Ian Meents, Thel Melton and The Beer...
View ArticleA Beer & Cheese Collision
Owen Ogletree, Ashton Smith, The Beer Wench, Ian Meents and Thel Melton gathered on October 2 to evaluate and score six beer and cheese pairings. Comments and scoring focused specifically on how well...
View ArticleOwen Ogletree Discusses Oktoberfest on Beer Guys Radio
CLICK HERE to listen to BeerGuysRadio.com's Oktoberfest show with John “JR” Roberts and Owen Ogletree – Episode 41.Hear Owen's interviews from the Hofbrau tent on the opening day of Munich's...
View ArticleI'm Dreaming of a Craft Beer Christmas
- First published in Southern Brew News in December of 2015 -By Owen OgletreeThis holiday season, forget the champagne, mulled wine and eggnog. Craft beer mania has gripped the nation, and the massive...
View ArticleTake a Walk on the Craft Beer Side
Story and photos by Owen OgletreeFirst published in Southern Brew NewsForget Pokémon Go. It's much more fun and delicious to venture out on foot in a new city to collect new friends, beers and...
View ArticleBudapest Beer Spots
Photos and text by Owen OgletreeJanuary, 2017Budapest, Hungary loves its craft beer. Beer bars offering IPAs, imperial stouts, pale ales, wheat beers and other American and international brands are all...
View ArticleATLANTA CASK ALE TASTING 2017 Beer List & Photos
Delicious Casks & Winners at our 2017 ACATwww.AtlantaCaskAle.com01/21/2017Our 2017 Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting was an amazing day highlighted by 51 cask-conditioned ales from the USA and UK. The...
View ArticleClassic City Brew Fest CASK List - April 9
With 400+ world class kegged and bottled beers and 30 unique cask ales, the beer list for April 9's 22nd annual Classic City Brew Fest is looking absolutely astounding. Please attend or volunteer!...
View ArticleGet a Classic City Brew Fest Souvenir Shirt
2017 Classic City Brew FestVolunteer T-ShirtBlow-Out!We have just a few leftover volunteer t-shirts from our 2017 Classic City Brew Fest that we are selling to raise extra funds for the Athens Area...
View ArticleFrank Boon: Lambic Icon, Artisan
By Owen OgletreeBeer styles sometimes become extinct. Trying to imagine the countless varieties that have disappeared over the past thousand years seems hopeless. Thankfully, a few almost forgotten...
View Article2017 Brewtopia IPA Bracket Challenge
Photos by Ashton Smith, Gail Graves and Mark HallOwen Ogletree set up 16 noteworthy American IPAs that were poured at last April's Classic City Brew Fest in Athens in an IPA blind tasting bracket. The...
View ArticleBest-of-Show Beer Styles Session
At the end of a homebrew judging competition, the first place beers from each style category head to a best-of-show (BOS) round where a small panel of beer judges picks the top beers that best...
View ArticleMichigan Craft Beer: Grand Rapids & Traverse City
At the conclusion of the 2017 Beer Bloggers & Writers Conference in Milwaukee, Owen Ogletree of www.Brewtopia.info and Don Beistle from Southern Brew News took the fast ferry across Lake Michigan...
View ArticleTop Ten Moments from 2017's Brewtopia Germany Trip
By Ransome SheetsIt wasn’t until I was sitting on a train headed into downtown Munich that it finally started to sink in; I had signed up for yet another Brewtopia beer trip, what has also come to be...
View ArticleBeer Travel - I Want to Do That!
By Rick FiferIt’s eight hours into day one of a six day exploration of the best beers offered in the Bavarian and Franconian states of Germany. Sixteen of the eighteen beer aficionados following Owen...
View Article2018 Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting AMAZING Beer List
Check out the jaw-dropping list below of exclusive, one-off cask ales served at our 14th annual ATLANTA CASK ALE TASTING on January 20, 2018. Winners from the morning judging session are listed in...
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