Archive for August, 2008

MNBeer – By, for and about Minnesota beer. Dedicated to MN breweries, brewpubs & homebrew: Wheat Wars Results

Michael Agnew, owner of A Perfect Pint, hosted “Wheat Wars” last night at The Four Firkins. He led us in a head-to-head battle of wheats – one wit versus another (Unibroue’s Blanche de Chambly vs. Ommegang Witte), one American wheat …

LIQUID DIET: the blog: Everybody is kicking my a** today.

You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to be ahead of Mrs. Curtin’s boy Jack, and apparently everybody did just that today.
Another story I was gonna comment on was…oh hell, read Stan and figure it out. His conclusion is the same as …

Thirsty Pilgrim: Me, Rad Brad, and Good Beer in Springfield, Mo.

Hi. I’m from Springfield, Missouri, hometown of Brad Pitt. Now, I know what you’re thinking. For a town like that to produce someone like Brad Pitt and someone like me… “Well,” you’re saying to yourself, “there must be something real special in the …

Brewdad: Northern Lights Brewing Co.

Northern Lights Brewing Co. 1003 Trent StreetSpokane, WA 99202(509) 242-2739We arrived late afternoon in Spokane Washington as they where also suffering from a sudden explosion of the sun and the heat index was way over 100 degrees. So what was in ord…

LIQUID DIET: the blog: While you await the return of the Dharma Initiative, consider this one.

I was going to do a story on the Amethyst Initiative today after having read about it, in all places, The Bulletin, Philadelphia’s crazed right-wing successor to the grand old and long-gone Evening Bulletin on the R5 train yesterday afternoon on…

Wort’s Going On Here?: Sam Adams News

A busy week for Boston Beer Company, and it seems to dominate the beer news.
First, with the buyout of Anheiser-Busch, Sam Adams becomes the largest independent, publicly traded American brewery. How long till InBev sets their sights on it, I wonder?…

Catch & Release: episode #120 – small is beautiful

A recap of the North Fork Craft Beer Fest and we’ll continue our dialog about why smaller is better.
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Send in those events. Email me, the address is donavan at radiobeerhall dot com and I’ll make sure your Long Island beer event g…

Sioux Brew: Jessica Simpson to hawk Texas beer brand

Date: 08/20/2008 06:24 AM
DALLAS (AP) – Jessica Simpson is now selling beer. The singer and actress has signed on as spokeswoman for Stampede Light Plus, made by Dallas’ Stampede Brewing Co.
Simpson will appear in ads in stores for the beer and…

Thom’s Beer Blog: 858-859. Burlington: The Shed

Jadyn and I got up relatively early on Sunday morning and checked out of the hotel. We drove back into Burlington and stopped at the City Market Onion-River Co-op to buy a few groceries. I remember getting strawberries and some of their on-tap Kombu…

beernews.org: Beer notes Atlantic: Terrapin Gamma Ray joins ‘Side Project Series’; Dominion’s 2008 ‘Winter Brew’

Terrapin Gamma Ray will soon become the third beer in Terrapin Beer Co.’s ‘Side Project Series.’ According to the latest newsletter released yesterday, it will be “an 11% wheat wine brewed with local honey, presumably Savannah…