Seen Through a Glass: You want InBev/A-B analysis? Here you go.
Yeah, that’s comedy. “That’s a rude awakening.” Thanks to the folks on BeerAdvocate for pointing this one out!
Archive for July, 2008
Brookston Beer Bulletin: Pliny Picture Show
I almost forgot that when I was at Russian River Brewery for the Pliny the Elder bottling on July 10, I shot a couple of short movies with my camera. Here are two of them. Enjoy the brewery porn.
Pliny Bottling #1: Slow and Longer.
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beernews.org: Brewers Art Ozzy makes its way into stores
(Baltimore, MD) – The Brewer’s Art, a small brewpub in Baltimore, released its third beer in bottles recently. The beer joins Green Peppercorn Tripel, the brewery’s highest-rated beer, and Canard; all three have been spotted at retailers…
The Best of American Beer & Food: Sprecher’s tailgating class, July 17
Join me at Sprecher Brewery on Thursday, July 17, for a demonstration of tailgating specialties and tastings paired with Pub Ale and Special Amber – read all about the series in the blog, EatWisconsin or sign up for the classes at Sprecher’s?…
On the House: Latest Poll Results: Most Wanted Anheuser-Busch To Stay American
On Sunday, July 13, the board of directors at Anheuser-Busch voted to accept InBev’s aggressive takeover bid. Budweiser, the “King of Beers,” will be in the hands of Belgium-based InBev, ending weeks of bickering, lawsuits and counter-suits. As …
Beer Examiner: What is good beer? – Revisited. Organic beer and addressing the environment.
Image courtesy of Brewers Association This is part 5 revisiting comments regarding my June 26 post, What is Good Beer? Stan Dyer says: I appreciate beer made with organic ingredients in an environmentally safe atmosphere, but, whe…
Seen Through a Glass: Shocking! Iowa’s keg registration law is ineffective!
From today’s Daily Iowan, the student-run newspaper at the University of Iowa, Iowa City:A keg-registration law passed in 2007 apparently has yet to be effective in combating underage drinking.Even the police admit it: “There haven’t been any [convict…
stlhops.com: Grape vs Grain Winner
Sorry for the delay on this, you can blame AB and InBev, but I’m happy to announce that the winner of the autographed copy of Charles Bamforth’s Grape vs Grain is Eric Burnley!
Once again, if you didn’t win, don’t be too upset,…
Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Commerce
If you look at the left frame of this page you’ll see a link called Amsterdam Beer Tours. It’s a little sideline of mine. Basically, people pay me to take them on a pub crawl of Amsterdam. Sounds like the perfect job, doesn’t it?This isn’t an advertis…
Potable Curmudgeon, The: Indiana Beer Week: A half dozen Indiana-brewed guest beers and 10 house beers on tap at the Public House now.
After a grievously slow business period in late June, suddenly we caught fire last week, and on Monday afternoon (yesterday) there were something like eight empty taps staring back at me.On most weeks, Monday’s the main beer ordering day, so the deple…