Archive for August, 2008
Don’t look now, but the people you’d probably most want to open a bar in your neighborhood, if somebody was going to open a bar in your neighborhood, have their eyes on a neighborhood. A terrible nuisance bar is about to be transformed and…
August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on LIQUID DIET: the blog: Local 44.
Those looking to sample some craft brews south of the river next week may want to check out Red Lion Liquor’s 3rd Annual Craft Beer Tasting at the 2008 Burnsville Fire Muster Thursday, September 4th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. They’ll be serving sample…
August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on MNBeer – By, for and about Minnesota beer. Dedicated to MN breweries, brewpubs & homebrew: Craft Beer Tasting at Burnsville Fire Muster
Earlier this week, I made some pork loin confit with a recipe from from the excellent book Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing. While not a fermentation confit (cooking something long and low submerged in rendered fat) has all the…
August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on The Mad Fermentationist: Pork Loin Confit and No-Knead Sourdough Bread Dinner
Model Janina presents two samples of the official beerstein for the annual Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. The Oktoberfest, the world’s biggest beer festival, will take place from Sept. 20 to Oc…
August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Sioux Brew: Nice mugs!
Just posted over here, Imbibe Magazine’s four Philadelphia inclusions on its list of the nation’s 100 best places to drink beer. Not that it actually matters, but any publicity is good publicity, right?
August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on LIQUID DIET: the blog: Imbibe’s Philadelphia four.
Today is the 100th day of our adventure, and we’ve posted a bunch of numbers since we figure this pretty much concludes Part I. Part II begins Monday when we fly to Germany.
You won’t find much beer — should I have counted ounces con…
August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Appellation Beer: Beer From a Good Home: The brewery parking lot? Bell’s
James and Andy try out one of the hop stretching methods explained by Chris Colby on the previous show: steeping hops in a French press coffee maker.
August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Food | Comments Off on 08-28-08 French Press Hopping – Basic Brewing Radio
Date: 08/28/2008 01:36 PM
By JANE WARDELL
AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) – Diageo PLC, the world’s largest producer and distributor of alcoholic drinks, said it is pushing ahead with its focus on premium sales as it posted a small rise in full-…
August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Sioux Brew: Guinness brewer’s profits up 2.7%
On Tuesday, September 9th at 6:30PM, the Rotten Apple in Grafton, Illinois will be hosting a tasting party featuring Arcadia beers. I’ll let Jerad Gardner, Bar Manager of the Apple, tell you more about it:
Arcadia’s owner/founder Tim Surp…
August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on stlhops.com: Arcadia Tasting Party at Rotten Apple
Today’s Beer Haiku sounds strangely familiar… The Dave Undis Lonely Hearts Club Band presents “With Apologies”:
What would you do if
I ran out of beer? Would you
Stand up and walk out…
Glass Tip – The most excellent Beer Haiku Daily
August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on RealBeer.co.nz: Beer Haiku Friday – With Apologies