This week kicks off a series of Tuesday Tastings in which we review Zymurgy Magazine's Top 50 Beers of 2011.  We begin with a beer made by a brewery that [...]

Craft breweries are known to push the limit when creating their beer.  They are also known to push the envelope when naming their beers.  Deciding on the name of a new beer is [...]

Scotland has given us many things over the years: William Wallace, golf, the Loch Ness Monster, and a number of Mike Myers characters.  It has also given us the Champaign [...]

This post marks a small milestone for Hapa's Brewing as it is the 100th entry in this blog.  Without getting too mushy and sentimental, we'd like to shout out [...]

Brazil is known for many things: Carnival, Samba, supermodels and waxings.  Beer is not one of these things but given the waxings it should come as no surprise that [...]

The acronym ESB has a wide variety of meanings.  Nerds may think it refers to an enterprise service bus, music fans might use it to describe the E. Street [...]

Just because you can't pronounce the name of a beer doesn't mean you shouldn't try it.  This week we decided to push the limits of our spell checker and [...]

There are more styles of beer than kids who like Armour Hot Dogs.  Fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks.  Pale ales, brown ales, and Dopplebocks.  Today's [...]

It's been a few weeks since the Hapa's crew poured a truly big beer.  We were long over due for triple digit IBUs and vision blurring ABVs.  That trend [...]