Archive for September, 2008

It’s The Beer Talking: Home Brewing: How to make a bad beer better (The art of the michelada)

Have a bad macro kicking around the fridge that you don’t want to give out and you don’t want to drink yourself? Well, you could do what I do: Make a michelada.
The michelada is a popular Mexican alcoholic beverage of a genre known in …

The Beer Brotha: UFC 88 and Bottled Beer

Well were watching UFC 88 at Champps, getting fired up and eating way too many buffalo wings. The waiter was cool as all get out and kept bringing us free bottles of Shiner Bock. In between yelling “It’s OVER” prematurely during the fights and whatn…

Stonch’s Beer Blog: Pay the price

Pay the price

Yours for Good Fermentables ™: As economy dips, beer lifts

The Washington Post ran this Business section story yesterday:Life’s guilty pleasures usually thrive during tough economic times. Now it seems the only acceptable — and affordable — sin left is alcohol, namely beer. More than 16 million barrels o…

Lyke 2 Drink: Lager Library: Passion on the Vine

Passion on the Vine by Sergio Esposito bills itself as a memoir of food, wine and family in the heart of Italy. It is a love affair with the grapes and culinary arts of Italy that just might induce you to buy a ticket on the next Alitalia flight to Ro…

Home Brew Beer: Session #19 – Deutsches Bier

The Session is a monthly event for the beer blogging community which was started by Stan Hieronymus at Appellation Beer. On the first Friday of each month, all participating bloggers write about a predetermined topic. Each month a different blog is ch…

Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Yeast circa 1900

Another short post today. I have to go to the cinema with the kids in 10 minutes. Star Wars Clone Wars is what we’re going to see. Exactly the sort of intellectual stimulation I need on a Sunday morning.Brettanomyces Stock Ale was a strong Beer which …

RealBeer.co.nz: [VIDEO] Beervana 2008

Didn’t make it to Beervana 2008, Wellington, New Zealand? Can’t remember who was there, which breweries? which brewers? Well here is a quick walk by all the beer stands.

VIDEO LINK

RealBeer.co.nz: 2008 BrewNZ Beer Awards Results

Here is the full list of results from the 2008 BrewNZ Beer Awards, announced Thursday 4th September 2008

2008 BrewNZ Beer Awards Results

Beer Me! Blog, The: Preparation for Basel, the flights, and the first beers

Last week was a busy one, especially with the holiday on Monday and Paris’ departure on Tuesday. I had to fill a metric assload of root beer kegs and deliver them to Council Bluffs and Norfolk. I had to make 21 barrels of root beer and 7 barrels of Re…