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Craft beers on tap in Machane Yehuda
Just two years ago, it wasn't easy to find Israeli craft beers in bars and pubs. And I'm talking about bottles -- much less on tap!What a difference 24 months make!Your intrepid old blogger,...
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Kosher for Passover beer to America
We've been following Bryan Meadan for a few years. First, as a home-brewer and contract brewer of gluten-free beer (please see here); then as a commercial brewer of Israel's only kosher-for-Passover...
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Old dark and new light
New beers are constantly soft-landing on my table (although some of them are just new to me). And that's a good thing. The local craft beer fellowship has reached a maturity where new beers are...
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Still with the dark beers
The season for darker beers is ending -- or is it? As we get deeper into spring, it doesn't appear that Israeli beer drinkers are abandoning their taste for stouts, porters, and black IPAs. Israeli...
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Machane Yehuda bar map
As I promised (here), below is your free, handy map of the famous Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, with the names, locations and photographs of the bars serving Israeli craft beers on tap. It's a...
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Five early beer events!
Two signs that craft beers are really gaining traction in our fair land: Beer festivals and events are starting earlier in the season (some are even going on year round!), and they are popping up at...
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20 hours at the Jerusalem Craft Beer Fair -- Part 1: The Commercial Brewers
Whew! If it wasn't for the beer, it would be overkill. I spent 20 hours at the Jerusalem Craft Beer Fair at the First Station -- well, pausing only to go home to get some sleep. Beginning at 6:00...
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Two more June festivals
Here we go again! Beer festivals are continuing to pop up all over the country. They're not even waiting for the summer. Here are two more for this month.The Israel Beer FestivalJune 6-7In just...
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Jerusalem Craft Beer Fair -- Part Two: The Home-Brewers
[See Part One: The Commercial Brewers here.]The next morning there were eight home-brewers who had come to serve their beers. These and many more had entered their beers in the first Beerateinu...
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Sheeta goes commercial with 3 new beers
A familiar scene: Neta and Jean Torgovitskypresenting their beers at a local beer festival.People who have been attending local beer festivals in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for the past seven years or so...
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Winners of the LongShot and Golden Beer competitions
Last week the winners were announced of two prestigious brewing competitions in Israel:The Samuel Adams LongShot competition for home-brewers and theGolden Beer 2017 for commercial craft brewers.13th...
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Shapiro's new "pop-up pub"
The accessible entrance to the Shapira BaSira pubin Jerusalem. The four Shapiro brothers -- Itzik, Daniel, Zvi and Avi -- and sister Tamar, have opened a pub in Jerusalem to showcase their beers. It's...
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Make your own beer maps with WishTrip
My earlier post on pubs and restaurants in Jerusalem's Machane Yehuda market (see here) included a link to the WishTrip app which played a video of the actual pub crawl. (Here it is again:...
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Three more beer festivals for July
I hope you're all in the mood for more beer festivals because they're still comin' at us. Here are three which have come to my attention. Pick the one sort of near you and consider going. Israel Beer...
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Ketta TropicAle: Fresh fruits in the glass
Rookie commercial brewerYuval Katz with hisTropicAle NEPA.One of the most pleasurable new beers I've had recently is called TropicAle and is contract brewed by Yuval Katz at the Beer Bazaar Brewery...
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B'tsisa 2017 -- Tasting some of the winners
Way back in April, the winners were announced to the B'tsisa home-brewing competition, another one of Israel's growing list of beer contests. B'tsisa (which means "In Fermentation"), however, is no...
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Kfar Saba Beer Festival this week
This Monday and Tuesday, July 24 and 25, Kfar Saba will be in the spotlight with the third annual Kfar Saba Beer Festival. Held in the Courtyard of the shuk (market), the festival will begin each day...
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My peach lambic problem -- and ours
The winner in the Fruit Beer category of the B'tsisa home-brew competition was Noam Shalev's Peach Lambic. You can read about the other winners here, where I also wrote that reviewing Noam's Peach...
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BEERS 2017: Next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
It's time to get prepped for the Big Daddy of Israeli beer festivals -- the BEERS 2017 Festival and where else but Tel Aviv. This is the seventh annual BEERS Festival, running for three nights, August...
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New summer beers
A few new beers are already here to quench your summer thirst. Our craft brewers know that it's the lighter, crisper, drier beers that people prefer in the hot months -- the July-August-September...
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