Archive for August, 2008

It’s The Beer Talking: News: The rich get richer

According to the Associated Press, brewer InBev SA’s second-quarter profit climbed 8.6 percent despite higher costs and weak sales in Russia and Europe as the company payed less in taxes.
Leuven, Belgium-based InBev reported a net profit of ?54…

TEXAS BEER: Rahr Website and Tour Changes

Rahr & Sons has launched an updated version of their website. Some portions are yet incomplete still under development.Rahr & Sons has also announced that beginning August 16th, they will begin charging a $5 per person admission fee to their S…

It’s The Beer Talking: Review: Avery IPA

An India Pale Ale (IPA) brewed by
Avery Brewing Company
Boulder, Colorado USA
Pours a lightly burnt yellow into the pint glass. It has a very nice and frothy head with good lacing as it goes down. The aroma is hops, hops and more hops. It is a hop ta…

Seen Through a Glass: Language

I see that Mt. Shasta Brewing has won a short legal battle with the fun-hating bureaucrats at the ATTTB. The ATTTB (apparently on the say-so of one employee’s interpretation of the somewhat vague and arbitrarily enforced regulations; sound familiar?) …

Pop The Cap North Carolina: Menu for final Pop The Cap beer dinner

Join us at Poole’s Downtown Diner on August 26th for the final Pop The Cap beer dinner. We’re wrapping this venture up with a bang, pairing beers from our earliest “Grand Cru” brewery and distributor sponsors with Chef Ashley C…

Brewed for Thought: Keeping it Southern

What’s with all the southern references on this blog lately? I have no idea.  Anyways, here’s some more, Jamabalaya and Abita at the Hopmonk this weekend, details below. 

Terrell’s NOLA JAMBALAYA JAM !!
in the beer garden from 5-…

Flossmoor Beer Blog: Madison Recap

So it’s Thursday already but this is the first chance we’ve had to talk about how fun Madison was this year. Friday we got in and either we were early or the tents were way late, because they weren’t even done setting the grounds up when we were read…

Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Amsterdam Pub Guide in pdf format

Yes, finally. It’s here. My Important Announcement. My definitive Amsterdam Pub Guide is now available in pdf format. Yippee!You can see a preview here.Now for the bad news. It’s not for free. Should you want to own all 167 pages in this deluxe, easil…

Potable Curmudgeon, The: On the status of the proposed New Albany workplace smoking ban.

On August 4, New Albany’s city council passed the first reading of an indoor smoking ordinance.The vote was 5-4, and two more readings are required, with the tally on the third being the final determinant. If vetoed, an overturn would require six vo…

Portlandbeer.org :: Brew > Drink > Repeat: Photos: BC Hop Farms Tour!

I got an email from Brian Butenschoen, director of the Oregon Brewer’s Guild, saying “What are you doing at 10am on Tuesday? Want to go for a tour of BC Hop Farms?” Those are my favorite emails…

So we picked up John Harris, brewmaster at Full Sai…