Archive for July, 2008
I guess we’ll find out this week as Missoula’s Marshall Mountain hosts the motorcycle club’s annual run.
The thing I’m curious about is whether or not craft brew falls under the bad boy image many bikers portray. Also, with Bud…
July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Grizzly Growler: Do Hells Angels drink craft beer?
I just posted another poll at Why The PLCB Should Be Abolished. This one assumes that the PA legislature finally gets up its courage and does away with the Case Law entirely, and then asks, “What would be the most likely unintended consequences?”Becau…
July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Seen Through a Glass: Another New Poll at the PLCB Blog
The Gallup Organization, that shadowy group that has been telling me my whole life about what is going on and expecting me to simply accept it – and usually for good reason – has released the chart above according to the Boston Globe and a bazillion o…
July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on A Good Beer Blog: Gallup Says Me And Mine Prefer Beer
You’ve gotta’ here this. Chris ‘Lance Romace’ LaPerrier, Head brewer at IHB West Chester is riding his bike to Brewery Ommegnag in Cooperstown, New York for the Belgium Comes To Cooperstown 2008 event. This is, I my humble opi…
July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on IHB Blog: Ride you bike to Belgium!!
With only two hopslams still sitting in my fridge I decided now was a prime time to inform you all of its brilliance. This Imperial IPA from Bell’s brewery is one heck of a beer, available from January to February officially, but I picked up som…
July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Legal Beer: Bell’s Hopslam Ale
If you enter the words “beer sales UK” into Google News right now you might feel in need of a strong ale or six, with headlines saying: “Beer sales slump to Great Depression levels” and “Decline in sales of beer in the UK…
July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Zythophile: Cask ale sales: gloom or boom?
Not many people or companies would claim that they don’t care about the environment. But not every company can truthfully claim that it is doing something to positively effect the world it operates in. Luckily there are plenty of breweries…
July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on : Green Beer
The Shooting Creek Brewery is scheduled to open this Summer in Floyd, Virginia. The brewery has run into some opposition from local Baptist ministers. The Star City Harbinger reports in “Local ministers canvass countryside to stop brewery near Floyd”:…
July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Musings Over a Pint: New Virginia Brewery Faces Opposition
I was informed that the Town Hall Brewery of Minneapolis was releasing a beer made with only warrior hops so I thought it was damn time I made my way over there. Drinking a single hopped beer is a great way to learn about a particular hop and what it …
July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Legal Beer: Town Hall Warrior Double Dry and a few others
Not since the late Michael Jackson’s The Beer Hunter, have we had a decent television series in the UK about beer. Dom Joly tried to feature beer in his Happy Hour series but only ended up with a piece of car crash television as he got drunk and unin…
July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on maeib’s Beerblog: Oz And James’ Big Beer Adventure