Archive for June, 2008

Wort’s Going On Here?: Fermenter Closed for the Summer

As much as I would love to dive back into brewing after coming back from NHC, it’s just too darned hot to ferment anything. So I won’t be brewing until it gets cooler. In Texas, that’s probably December.
I am, meanwhile, thinking about upcoming brew…

Lyke 2 Drink: Anheuser Busch Backs Down on Caffeine: Company to Reformulate Tilt and Bud Extra

Anheuser-Busch has decided to reformulate its Tilt and Bud Extra brands, pulling the current products from the shelves, after coming under pressure from 11 states Attorneys General.

The states had claimed the caffeinated alcoholic beverages were bei…

Lyke 2 Drink: Samuel Adams Flowing from Pennsylvania Brewery

Boston Beer is celebrating the first batches of beer rolling out of its new production facility outside of Allentown, Pa.

Samuel Adams is being made at the Upper Macungie Township brewery, which Boston Beer acquired from Diageo for $55 million. The …

Musings Over a Pint: (Yet Another) Brewpub and Beer Garden for Fredericksburg

The Blue & Gray Brewing Company has plans to open a 30-seat brewpub and an outdoor beer garden this Fall, if all goes to according to plan. The Free Lance-Star posted details this morning:
[Owner Jeff] Fitzpatrick said the move would be a “natural…

Yours for Good Fermentables ™: Another Summer beer festival in NW Virginia!

It’s a summer bounty of good beer in the Old Dominion.

Ten miles further west than, and one month after the Northern Virginia Summer Brewfest, on Saturday, 19 July, Magnolias at the Mill presents its First Annual Beer Festival.

Magnolias is a 30 be…

Michigan Beer Buzz: Quite possibly the coolest shirt ever made

Check this out from Great Divide Brewing – it could be yours for $60!  Click the image for more info.

*thanks KC!

boakandbailey.com: Real ale and lower division football

This month’s Beer magazine / supplement from CAMRA features an article on the Leyton Orient Supporters’ Club, winner of multiple awards from local CAMRA branches. They host real ale festivals, and have a large number of handpumps, making …

The Second-Best Beer Drinker in Britain: American Beers at the White Horse

Looks like I picked the wrong weekend to visit my folks back in Yorkshire…

From Friday 4th (US Independence Day) to Sunday 6th, the celebrated White Horse in Parson’s Green is hosting its first American Beer Festival. We don’t get enough American …

Joomla! powered Site: Tsjeeses, a hell of an x-mas beer

Tsjeeses, a hell of an x-mas beer

Shut up about Barclay Perkins: 1950’s decoction mashing in the DDR

Who says this blog is willfully obscure? Taking a break from 19th century decoction techniques, let’s return to another of my obsessions, the DDR. The source is one of my favourite books, Dickscheit’s “Leitfaden für den Brauer und Mälzer”, 1953, p…