Archive for August, 2008

LIQUID DIET: the blog: Seasonal beers now #1 among craft beer consumers. Is that a good thing…or a sign of trouble?

Word from the Brewers Association just now that
…seasonal release beers are the number one selling craft beer style even having surpassed pale ales.

which is surely interesting and, at first glance, a Good Thing. Consumers want something new an…

SevenPack Beer Blog: Stone Vertical Epic 08.08.08

Following up my recent review of Stone’s XII Anniversary Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout is Stone’s other recent release, Vertical Epic 08.08.08. This is release seven in the Vertical Epic series but I noticed the first one to be reviewed …

Barley Blog, The: Beerdolier

This Beerdolier will go great with my Rambo III headband and fake abs costume. (Via)

BeerDinners.com: Everything is bigger in Texas – Libertine Beer Dinner, Dallas, TX

Libertine in Dallas, Texas is having a beer dinner on August 26, so you Texans should try it out! Any time you can have doughnut holes paired with Belgian Dark Ale from French Canada, you must take full advantage of that opportunity.
From the restaura…

brewvana: Great Taste Chronicles–Part 2

The location
Wisconsin is beautiful. It’s been quite some time since I read Little House in the Big Woods, and I can’t remember the motivation, but there must have been a seriously good reason for old Charles and Carolyn Ingalls to leave. …

Pfiff!: Whitman’s Brooklyn, black, chocolate and stout

It’s certainly not every day that a libation from the storied Brooklyn Brewery finds itself propped up for a glamour shot on my cutting board, so a certain compulsion to fire up the old blogomobog was inevitable when this glorious specimen recently …

Pfiff!: Whitman’s Brooklyn, black, chocolate and stout

It’s certainly not every day that a libation from the storied Brooklyn Brewery finds itself propped up for a glamour shot on my cutting board, so a certain compulsion to fire up the old blogomobog was inevitable when this glorious specimen recently …

maeib’s Beerblog: BeerMerchants Brewsletter

The latest newsletter from BeerMerchants is available here. It’s heartening to see how well the Scandinavian beers they’ve recently got in are doing. I am very confident that they will continue to break the mould and import some of the World’s great…

maeib’s Beerblog: BeerMerchants Brewsletter

The latest newsletter from BeerMerchants is available here. It’s heartening to see how well the Scandinavian beers they’ve recently got in are doing. I am very confident that they will continue to break the mould and import some of the World’s great…

MNBeer – By, for and about Minnesota beer. Dedicated to MN breweries, brewpubs & homebrew: Take Cover Quickly–and enjoy a cool pull (at Town Hall)

August 18, 20085:00 pmChad Bacon, self-described “licensed pseudo meteorologist” at Town Hall is reporting a major summer Thunderstorm headed our way next week. If I recall from similar past weather events, it usually involves copius amo…