The folks at Humboldt Made are hoping a labeling controversy might land a once-local beer’s brewing operations back on the North Coast. The Humboldt Brewing Co.’s current incarnation has little to do with its county of origin. Sure, there are the colorful labels complete with images of towering redwoods and lush ferns. There’s the word […]
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Plumbers Union Calling for Lost Coast Brewery Boycott
Rumors of this boycott had been brewing for some time, but apparently it’s official. In a poster that appeared in Old Town overnight, the Plumbers and Steamfitters Local No. 290 accuses Lost Coast Brewery of hiring out-of-town contractors to build its new brewery on south Broadway, undercutting local wages and eliminating training opportunities. The subcontractor, […]
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Show us yer growler!
Any growler will do, at any brewery — Lost Coast, Six Rivers, Redwood Curtain, you name it — come Jan. 1. That’s when Assemblymember Wes Chesbro’s growler bill goes into effect. A growler (shh, Kiwi!) is a glass beer vessel about 4-pints-hearty, in which beer connoisseurs and picky drunks enjoy refills of fresh-crafted local brews straight from […]
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Liberate Your Growler
Freedom to enjoy your favorite beer — that’s Wes Chesbro’s (D — North Coast) vision of California. He’s calling for Gov. Jerry Brown to end the persecution against owners of growlers — those 64-ounce beer bottles — who just want a refill. Growlers are an increasingly popular way to get fresh-brewed craft beer home. Even […]
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Humboldt Beer is Officially “Great”
Above: Mad River wins! File this away in the tell-us-something-we-don’t-know drawer: Humboldt-produced beer is top shelf, kids. And now it’s official (again). At last weekend’s annual Great American Beer Festival — the Academy Awards of brewin’ — Mad River Brewing Co. bested 67 other microbrew entries to take home ze Gold in the “Golden and […]
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Steve and Dave’s = Steve and Dave’s
The notice outside Steve and Dave’s bar (and formerly BC’s) has had a few of us regulars worried: “Public Notice of Application of Ownership Change,” it says. Does this mean my Monday night pool date is going to go to the dogs? (For the record, my pool sucks.) Was nothing sacred? It’s all good. Steve […]
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Gone Fish
Go Fish and Chips Cafe, that long-dead restaurant on Waterfront Drive, has finally bleached into oblivion. That is, it’s been painted all over in white. Which means the feverishly bright mural on its face, of fishes and birds and other creatures, painted by Eureka artist Augustus Clark about five years ago, is gone. Gone, also, […]
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Guest Post: Storming StrangeBrew
Gwen Neu, a teacher who lives in Eureka, attended StrangeBrew in quest of the gender she found sadly under-represented in the Journal’s recent beer judging. Anyone reading the North Coast Journal a few weeks ago might think beer is a manly sort of beverage. Not so fast. Plenty of women were sampling, savoring and sometimes […]
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The BIG DAY
The pre-wedding rigors that British royalty Prince William and his bride Kate Middleton endured before today’s EXTRAVAGANZA must have been sorely trying. But they cannot compare to the primping rituals of the Budweiser Clydesdales, a team of which happens to be ensconced at Redwood Acres right now in anticipation of Eureka’s own BIG DAY tomorrow […]
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Mad River Could Beer The Country!
Well, the pulp mill’s officially dead. Now the work begins in earnest to find another use for the raw — meaning untreated — surface water from the Mad River for which the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District has a state permit to deliver for industrial uses. We’re not talking about our drinking water folks — […]
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A Beery Exultation
Greenopia, a research company that puts together “green guides,” has declared Eel River Brewing Co. among the saintliest when it comes to green beer production. In a ranking system where four “Greenopia leafs” gains you entry to hopsy sainthood, Eel River earned three. Here’s what Greenopia said: Eel River is a small craft brew that […]