Archive for July, 2008

Grizzly Growler: Do Hells Angels drink craft beer?

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…

Seen Through a Glass: Another New Poll at the PLCB Blog

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…

A Good Beer Blog: Gallup Says Me And Mine Prefer Beer

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…

IHB Blog: Ride you bike to Belgium!!

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…

Legal Beer: Bell’s Hopslam Ale

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…

Zythophile: Cask ale sales: gloom or boom?

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…

: Green Beer

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…

Musings Over a Pint: New Virginia Brewery Faces Opposition

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”:…

Legal Beer: Town Hall Warrior Double Dry and a few others

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 …

maeib’s Beerblog: Oz And James’ Big Beer Adventure

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…