Archive for August, 2008

maeib’s Beerblog: Real Ale Sausages

No sniggering at the back, but I like a nice sausage. I’m also a big fan of beer as you may have concluded by now. It’s not uncommon to see beer and real ale sausages, but I suspect the beer used is not often declared.My village is lucky to have a v…

Realbeer.com Beer Therapy: Great Divide Drinking Liberally

The Democratic National Convention is coming to town — Denver, Colorado, that is — and local brewers are turning patriotic. Great Divide Brewing is releasing a single batch of Liberally Hopped American Pale Ale to salute the DNC.
This historic occ…

Sioux Brew: U.K. brewers reach out to women

Date: 08/15/2008 02:05 PM
By AARON O. PATRICK
The Wall Street Journal
LONDON – Trying to halt a big decline in beer sales, some brewers in the U.K. are reaching out to a largely untapped group of customers: women.
Coors, the U.K. arm of Molson Coors …

Sioux Brew: Beer review – Cold Spring Ebony Wheat

I have to be honest. The first bottle of Cold Spring Ebony Wheat that I sampled struck me as being an odd, off sort of beer. Frankly, I didn’t care for it. A couple of bottles later (no, not on the same night) and I’ve adjusted my opinion….

The Beer Babe’s Brew Reviews: Weyerbacher – Double Simcoe IPA

I’m by no means a hop expert – I can tell when there are hops, and that hops are different from each other, but I’m a far cry from a cicerone. However, I love to see new varieties and new uses for them. Weyerbacher this time took advantage of the high…

a beer sort of blog: Lunch

I had a BLT and a Fat Tire. What?

Sioux Brew: New beer for Siouxland

A new beer brand has landed at the South Sioux City HyVee Wines and Spirits.
Scotch Ale by Arcadia Brewing Co. of Battle Creek, MI., landed at the Siouxland retailer Wednesday (Aug. 13) and quickly sold out. Don’t weep if you’ve missed ou…

Year of Beer: #344 Fort Collins – Z Lager

This is a Rauchbier, a German style beer using smoked malt.There is a light smoke aroma present in this beer along with some caramel malt notes. The color is a light brown with some orange highlights shining though. The head is low, but keeps the ed…

Sybeeritic: Beer Photoshop Contest on Fark

The always-amusing Fark recently held a Photoshop contest to design an ad for a quintessentially “Fark” beer. The winner, in my book, by a large margin:

e4tango, ftw!

stlhops.com: Weekend of 08/15/08 Retail Beer Tastings

Couple quick beer tastings to tell you about.
The Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton has moved their weekend tastings to Friday and they’re starting out with a bang. Today, from 4PM to 6:30PM they’ll be tasting Mikkeller All Others Pale, Je…