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(Boulder, CO) – On Friday, Avery Brewing Co. joined All About Beer Magazine for its fifth and final Google+ Hangout of the week celebrating American Craft Beer Week. The current brewery is at capacity so the new brewery can’t come soon enough. That has held up development of new projects like IPA 12-packs and 3Point5 Pale Ale, which will be the next core lineup beer they add in a package when the new brewery is up-and-running. The latter beer, now in its fourth iteration during taproom development, is part of the brewery’s draft-only “Session Series” which also includes 3Point7 Milk Stout. Avery is working on a third beer to add to the set. On the other end of the spectrum, Avery has 280 filled wooden barrels for aging beers. Among them are four Suerte Tequila barrels. Avery is working on procuring more barrels for a third offering in its “Annual Barrel Series” to join Rumpkin and Uncle Jacob’s Stout. Its one-off “Barrel Aged Series” is now fourteen beers deep with the latest, Avery Volunt Plus, a very limited taproom-only release. Number 15 in the series, Momi Hiwa Barrel Aged Coconut Porter, will hit distribution. Release date is June 9th.

Texas-based Karbach Brewing has released its new summer seasonal, Love Street Summer Seasonal Kölsch, on draft and in cans. via Vimeo | Karbach.

The Missouri Legislature has approved a beer bill that will allow home brewers to participate in festivals and other public events. More >> St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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It’s called Vulcan Ale, concocted by a trio of Albertans — Star Trek-crazy Canuks — and should land in most Canadian beer/alcohol outlets by early next year. Its official lift-off is slated for Alberta this week. More >> Toronto Star.

The Growler Saver will keep your growler of beer carbonated, and tasting like it came straight from the tap for days on end. via Kickstarter.

A look at our Smokestack 750ml bottling line—which on this particular day in February 2013 just happened to be moving through a batch of Saison-Brett. More >> YouTube | Boulevard.

Today’s infographic is a well-known humorous poster, called I ? Beer, with more than three dozen funny equations about how adding beer to something changes it into something better, or at least different. Click here to see the poster full size, though that one has a watermark. Here is one that’s slightly smaller, but without a watermark.

Today is the 39th birthday of Jeff Bagby, who until a year or so ago was the head brewer extraordinaire at Pizza Port in Carlsbad. There, you can read the entire biography of Jeff “Extra Spicy” Bagby. I’m not sure when it was written, but it definitely needs to be updated, as it ends with the following sentence. “Jeff has his sights set on winning a GABF Brewpub of the Year award and we most definitely believe it is in his future as well.” Three years ago at GABF, Jeff won an amazing seven medals and Pizza Port Carlsbad was awarded the Large Brewpub and Large Brewpub Brewer of the Year. That means his plaid pants got to go up on stage a record eight times! You can see a retrospective of Jeff’s plaid choices over the years, too, at Jeff “Lucky Pants” Babgy Wins Big. Once he started working on opening his own brewery, I suggested he should consider “Plaid Brewing” or some variation of that idea, like “Plaid Pants Brewing” or “Lucky Plaid Brewing.” Unfortunately, he went with a more sensible Bagby Beer Co. All, well some, kidding aside, Jeff is a terrific brewer and a hell of a washoes player, though I still think Dave Keene and I could beat him and Tomme again. Join me at wishing Jeff a very happy birthday. Jeff with his then-girlfriend, now wife, Dande at GABF a few years ago. And yes, those are his lucky pants. Greg Koch and Jeff at the Falling Rock. Former Drake’s brewer Melissa Myers with Jeff at an event at Anchor celebrating the Toronado’s 20th anniversary. Sam Calagione, Bruce Paton and Jeff at the Lost Abbey for a beer dinner during CBC. Jeff at the Toronado for the annual Belgian Beer Dinner last year, with owner Dave Keene wearing his “Who the F@#k is Jeff Bagby?” T-shirt.

“Buffalo Wild Wings partners with Redhook Brewery on Game Changer” Redhook Brewery is partnering with the casual dining Buffalo Wild Wings to produce a new beer called Game Changer this summer. This from the press release, “Redhook has become savvy when it comes to pairing strategic partnerships with beer brands. The company launched Audible Ale with The Dan Patrick Show earlier this year and previously created a beer for the Seattle Sounders soccer team.” Now, the rest of the release details economic numbers and talks about locations and margins.  And that makes me not want to even look at this on a store shelf.  The first, second and third paragraphs should be about the beer.  And only the beer. It could be the best beer in the world but it wasn’t made except for monetary reasons.