Signal regained on Kalmia Street, Earthlings. Escondido Social Taproom, a taproom-only bar in the former Little Miss Brewing tasting room at 132 N. Kalmia St. in Escondido, was set to open Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. The venue’s website announces “Opening Friday, October 9th!!” and posts the hours below. The room went quiet in March 2025….
Profit has been detected inside BrewDog. Tilray Brands has declared BrewDog profitable for its fiscal first quarter, the three months ended Aug. 31, 2026, and the beverage business it now anchors grew 82% to $101.5 million. Tilray reported the results Thursday, Oct. 8, in an earnings release filed with the SEC. On the same day,…
Most Earth businesses measure progress by getting bigger. Tomme Arthur keeps trying to make his smaller. Hence The Lost Abbey leaving Vista: the company will move out of its brewery at 1347 Keystone Way and into a smaller, more cost-effective home at the end of 2026, Arthur told San Diego Beer News in a story…
New Belgium Daleville is getting a front door. New Belgium Brewing will open a Liquid Center at its production brewery at 555 International Pkwy. in Daleville, Va., to the public on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, the company announced in an Oct. 7 press release. Allow me to translate. “Liquid Center” is New Belgium’s name for…
/// BARREL-DEPTH ANOMALY DETECTED IN CHICAGO SECTOR /// Bourbon County Triple Barrel Stout is Goose Island’s surprise addition to its 2026 Bourbon County Brand lineup: a rye stout aged for three years through three successive bourbon barrels, bottled at 18.7% ABV, and sold only in Chicago starting Black Friday, Nov. 27. Bureau scanners classify this…
Black Flag Brewing Co. in Columbia, Maryland, could close for good on Nov. 30 if a pending sale of the brewery falls through, founder Brian Gaylor told The Baltimore Banner. After about 10 years at 9315 Snowden River Parkway, the brewery’s fate now hangs on whether a buyer can get its financing together before the…
Kannah Creek Brewing Company in Grand Junction, Colorado, will close after service on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, its 21st anniversary, and it plans to go out with a live band, KKCO 11 News reports. Owners Jim and Bernadette Jeffrys, both in their 70s, are retiring. For what KKCO calls a “cornerstone Grand Junction spot,” the…
/// INCOMING INTERSTELLAR SIGNAL /// Voodoo Brewing Herndon opens Saturday, Oct. 24, at 2315 Dulles Station Blvd. in the Makers Rise complex, bringing the Pennsylvania-based brewery to Northern Virginia’s growing beer scene, Out & About Fairfax reports. The brewpub is a franchise location run by Curry Lee of Reston, and the Bureau has the landing…
The can reads like a field report: “Beginnings: 1870’s. Concrete structures: 1915-1954. Chrysalis: 1972 – Present. Rebirth: Future Imminent.” That’s Graffiti Mill West Coast IPA, a 7.0% ABV collaboration between Minneapolis’ Utepils Brewing and Graffiti Mill, and it officially releases today, Friday, Oct. 9, at the Utepils taproom. Earthlings, the lager specimen has gone West…
/// AUDIO-TO-HOPS CROSSOVER DETECTED ///Track two on Mastodon’s new album is called “Poisonous Weapons,” and in Memphis it’s also a beer. Poisonous Weapons Hazy IPA is a 7% collaboration between Crosstown Brewing Co. and Mastodon, named for that song and for the band’s current tour. It debuted on draft Sept. 4, 2026, so it isn’t…
Burning Beard Brewing’s new home is still grounded. As of Oct. 9, 2026, the El Cajon brewery has moved its equipment into a former airplane hangar at Gillespie Field, but it can’t open until the building is cleared for non-aviation use, a call that now appears to rest with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). No…
Did I Stutter?, the helles lager Twin Elephant Brewing made in collaboration with The Dillinger Escape Plan, returns Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, at the brewery’s Chatham, New Jersey, taproom, according to JollyPint. Earthlings, this is a re-release, not a new specimen. The lager debuted in June 2024 for Dillinger’s Brooklyn Paramount reunion shows, and it’s…
No BeerAlien journalist has sampled this specimen yet, so we’ll let the brewery speak. On its beer page, 56 Brewing calls it “a limited collaboration beer” and writes: “We teamed up with the band Nothingness to create a super fruity and tropical Hazy IPA for the release of their album ‘Godslaughter.’ The band blends multiple…
As part of our ongoing cultural research into Earth’s most intense liquid and auditory traditions, the Beer Alien Journalistic Bureau has turned its observational sensors toward Southern California. Our telemetry has identified a major gathering of human metalheads and craft beer enthusiasts scheduled to land in San Diego this fall. The San Diego Metal Swap…
Oklahoma Suks has officially re-entered orbit as Independence Brewing, one of Austin’s favorite Texas craft breweries, brings back its seasonal tribute ahead of the annual University of Texas vs. University of Oklahoma rivalry game. The high-gravity favorite (in spirit, if not ABV) is landing on refrigerator shelves state-wide. If you’re preparing for game-day watch parties…
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