Archive for July, 2008

Brew Lounge : Beer Tasting Brewing and Culture, The: Day 3 Bear Sighting

Remember the bear/cub sighting that Chris mentioned back on Day 3 of their trip? Well, he was able to send a picture of each of them. Or maybe it’s him playing around on his iPhone, not sure. All fun ‘n’ games out there on the road, tough work if you …

Grizzly Growler: Tap Room trouble

Most of you know I’m an advocate of craft brewing. That should go without saying. And many of you know I am in favor of Montana brewers standing up for their right to brew and conduct business in a fair and reasonable manner.
What some of you ma…

MNBeer – By, for and about Minnesota beer. Dedicated to MN breweries, brewpubs & homebrew: Two New Beers from Flat Earth

Flat Earth has two new beers hitting the stores on Friday – Convention Ale, a Belgian red and Onvi Ale, a Biere de Garde.  Here’s the lowdown on each beer.
Convention Ale is Belgian red ale. We combined a lot of different ingredients to make t…

Hoosier Beer Geek: Random Beer Roundup – Magazines and beer news

This week’s Indy.com has a nice article about FBI homebrewer Ron Smith and Homebrewer of the Year, Michael Pearson.HBG got a mention in the August edition of Indianapolis Monthly – woohoo!If you’re watching your waistline and you wanna torture yoursel…

stlhops.com: Whole Foods Belgian/Farmhouse/Sour Beer Tasting

There are few tastier things than a sour beer. But why should you limit yourself to just a single sour beer? Wouldn’t you like to enjoy a large spectrum of the sour beers that St. Louis has to offer? Well, Andy Snead, the Beer Specialist for …

Relentless Thirst: When Will It End?

Okay, this has got to stop. These mindless…

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Knut Albert’s Beer Blog: Three more from Inderøy

There are breweries who churn out one or two beers in large quantities, year after year. Others have a steady, but broad range.
Newcomers Inderøy Gårdsbryggeri, who have been praised both by me and by the Beer Nut, are not content with that. Just a …

Beer Examiner: American Craft Beer to be showcased at the 2008 Great British Beer Festival.

British Beer Expert Melissa Cole The Brewers Association reports 57 beers from 17 American Craft Breweries will be poured at this year’s Great British Beer Festival. This will be the largest representation of American at this festival e…

Beer Examiner: Beer Lao a gem of SEAsia. MillerCoors axes Miller Lite Brewers Collection.

Beer Lao brewster Sivilay Lasachack. photo Papazian © 2008 Beer from Laos has recently hit the news.   Laos is a small landlocked country west of Vietnam and north of Thailand in Southeast Asia.  The hype is that the woman who is…

TEXAS BEER: Ginger Man Hosts “Texas Breweries” Tasting

The Ginger Man will host a “Texas Breweries” tasting at its Austin location on Monday, August 4th.The tasting will include selections from five different Texas breweries such as Real Ale, Live Oak and Saint Arnold, as well as a few surprise guests as …