Archive for August, 2008

My Beer Pix: Old friends dropping by

The Wirtz boys from Arizona and Fitz from Washington state dropped by the brewery to hang out today

My Beer Pix: Beer Sage and I are having an off side meeting.

Lunch over at BackStreet. I have Ballast Point Barel Aged Stout

Barley Blog, The: iPhone Drinking Apps

18 iPhone Drinking Apps to Get the Party Started is a pretty thorough list of a variety of iPhone apps that are related to drinking in some way or another. Some are foolishly useless, while others are pretty damned slick.

blogaboutbeer.com: iPhone Application for the Beer Aficionado

Popular online Social Networking blog Mashable.com today had a post describing 18 different iPhone applications all centered around drinking. Most of them were lame “guess your BAC level” and “R U Drunk” tests and shouldn&#8217…

TheBrewClub.com: Hoegaarden Witbier Reviewed

We’ve been on a bit of a Wheat beer kick as of late here at The Brew Club!  We’ve had several wheat beers that have covered the spectrum of ratings from GREAT to eh.  This review is of the famous Hoegaarden Belgian White Beer.
This beer …

Brewed for Thought: Amethyst Initiative: It’s Time To Rethink the Drinking Age

Have you ever wondered why the drinking age is 21?  Basically it was up to individual states to determine their own drinking age until 1984 when the National Drinking Age Act tied highway funds to maintaining a drinking age of 21.  So why 21?  Does…

The Beer Babe’s Brew Reviews: Bar Harbor Brewing Company – True Blue

*Note, this brew is not to be confused with the Atlantic Brewing Company’s Bar Harbor Blueberry. It’s ok, I did a double take too.Wild Maine blueberries are at their peak this month, and I’ve picked some wild ones growing on the stray trails where I w…

Sioux Brew: InBev CEO says A-B deal will go through

Date: 08/22/2008 01:13 PM
By MARCO SIBAJA
Associated Press Writer
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) – The head of Belgian-Brazilian brewer InBev SA said Friday he’s confident his company’s takeover of Anheuser-Busch will be cleared by U.S. regulators…

LIQUID DIET: the blog: From beers to breasts. It’s a slippery slope.

Ms. Suzanne Woods has introduced breastical naked nudity into the local beer blogging scene…and probably not a minute too soon.
Okay, it’s just a painting and not the real thing, but my sense of the cultural karma tells me that that this …

MNBeer – By, for and about Minnesota beer. Dedicated to MN breweries, brewpubs & homebrew: Cellars Beer Tasting

For anyone not going to the Autumn Brew Review you might want to consider heading over to the Cellars in Eagan (2113 Cliff Road) for a beer tasting Saturday, September 27 2:00 – 5:00 pm. They have a very knowledgeable staff that does their research a…