Archive for August, 2008

LIQUID DIET: the blog: Local 44.

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…

MNBeer – By, for and about Minnesota beer. Dedicated to MN breweries, brewpubs & homebrew: Craft Beer Tasting at Burnsville Fire Muster

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…

The Mad Fermentationist: Pork Loin Confit and No-Knead Sourdough Bread Dinner

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…

Sioux Brew: Nice mugs!

 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…

LIQUID DIET: the blog: Imbibe’s Philadelphia four.

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?

Appellation Beer: Beer From a Good Home: The brewery parking lot? Bell’s

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…

08-28-08 French Press Hopping – Basic Brewing Radio

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.

Sioux Brew: Guinness brewer’s profits up 2.7%

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-…

stlhops.com: Arcadia Tasting Party at Rotten Apple

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…

RealBeer.co.nz: Beer Haiku Friday – With Apologies

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…

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