Archive for August, 2008
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…
August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on maeib’s Beerblog: Real Ale Sausages
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…
August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Realbeer.com Beer Therapy: Great Divide Drinking Liberally
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 …
August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Sioux Brew: U.K. brewers reach out to women
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….
August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Sioux Brew: Beer review – Cold Spring Ebony Wheat
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…
August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on The Beer Babe’s Brew Reviews: Weyerbacher – Double Simcoe IPA
I had a BLT and a Fat Tire. What?
August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on a beer sort of blog: Lunch
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…
August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Sioux Brew: New beer for Siouxland
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…
August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Year of Beer: #344 Fort Collins – Z Lager
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!
August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Sybeeritic: Beer Photoshop Contest on Fark
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…
August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on stlhops.com: Weekend of 08/15/08 Retail Beer Tastings