Archive for June, 2008

beernews.org: Weekly Friday Roundup: Lost Abbey, KTG, Deschutes, Three Floyds, Great Lakes

Let me preface this week’s roundup by pointing you to our new polling system. Each week I will throw up a new poll (found on the lower right sidebar). This week’s poll, which I will keep up through the middle of next week, asks readers …

Brookston Beer Bulletin: Action Alert: Delaware Trying To Raise Beer Tax 50%

If you live in Delaware and also love good beer, like Dogfish Head and Iron Hill, to name just a couple, please consider contacting your state senator as soon as possible, because the state is trying to raise the tax on beer 50% and the vote is on Mo…

Brookston Beer Bulletin: National Brewery Museum

Finally a reason to work myself into a patriotic lather. You travel around to enough beer nations and you realize, they all have one, sometimes more than one. I’m talking about beer museums. We have an American Hop Museum in Toppenish, Washingt…

Pfiff!: Fermentation Friday – 99% pit-free

Admittedly, the answer to this month’s homebrew carnival question didn’t come quickly or easily for me, something that’s difficult to admit as being quick to respond with no shortage of verbosity is the way things are expected to work around here. D…

Pour, The: Farewell, Bette

Bette is gone, taking its fabulous wine list with it.

maeib’s Beerblog: Another Reason For Dodgy Pubcos To Moan

The water crisis in Northants, as it’s now being called, is still with us and may be so for another three weeks. And of course it’s yet another thing publicans can blame for falling profits.So to good weather, bad weather, Alistair Darling, hop shor…

A Glorious Weekend for Organic Beer: NAOBF Beer List

Oregonian file photoYou’d smile, too, if you had THIS weather for your beer festival… Craig Nicholls, right, held the first organic brewers fest at Port Halling in Gresham. He’s since started Roots Organic Brewing with co-owner/brewer Jason McAdam. Mercy, what…

The Beer Here – OregonLive.com: A Glorious Weekend for Organic Beer: NAOBF Beer List

Oregonian file photoYou’d smile, too, if you had THIS weather for your beer festival… Craig Nicholls, right, held the first organic brewers fest at Port Halling in Gresham. He’s since started Roots Organic Brewing with co-owner/brewer Jason McAdam. …

Sioux Brew: Saturday in The Park lineup

No, not the entertainment lineup. That was announced weeks ago. This is the beer lineup.
Sioux City Anheuser-Busch distributer L & L Distributing won this year’s contract to supply beer to the festival’s beer gardens. This is a change …

That’s the Spirit – Beer Blog: The Session Arrives Early

As regular readers of beer blogs will know, the first Friday of every month is The Session, when we all collectively blog on a specific theme. On the day of July’s Session, however, I will be basking in the glow of being newly wed, relaxed and compute…