Archive for June, 2008
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…
June 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Wort’s Going On Here?: Fermenter Closed for the Summer
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…
June 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Lyke 2 Drink: Anheuser Busch Backs Down on Caffeine: Company to Reformulate Tilt and Bud Extra
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 …
June 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Lyke 2 Drink: Samuel Adams Flowing from Pennsylvania Brewery
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…
June 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Musings Over a Pint: (Yet Another) Brewpub and Beer Garden for Fredericksburg
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…
June 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Yours for Good Fermentables ™: Another Summer beer festival in NW Virginia!
Check this out from Great Divide Brewing – it could be yours for $60! Click the image for more info.
*thanks KC!
June 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Michigan Beer Buzz: Quite possibly the coolest shirt ever made
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 …
June 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on boakandbailey.com: Real ale and lower division football
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 …
June 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on The Second-Best Beer Drinker in Britain: American Beers at the White Horse
Tsjeeses, a hell of an x-mas beer
June 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Joomla! powered Site: Tsjeeses, a hell of an x-mas beer
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…
June 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: 1950’s decoction mashing in the DDR