No, it’s not the title of a spaghetti western. Those of you of more tender years may never have heard of the seven brewing companies that used to control the production and sale of beer in Britain.Between them, these companies owned a third of Brita…
Here’s something fun for the month of September. I have a copy of “The American Brew” DVD to give away to one reader this month. This documentary delves into the history of beer in America. It contains appearances by Fritz Maytag, Garrett Oliver, Char…
Leedy writes in with a story from The New York Times on the growing trend among craft brewers to produce more low alcohol, “sessionable” beer:
“We’ve all been saying the same thing for about 18 months now, which is, enough of the high octane.”Mr…
NY Craft Beer Week Sept. 12-21.
Beer Exposed Sept. 25-27 in London.
A few more thoughts at Appellation Beer.
New Belgium Brewing and The Climate Conservancy have released a 36-page paper that assesses the carbon footprint of a 6-pack of Fat Tire.
If you are one of those people who flips to the last page of the mystery book, the answer is “3,189 grams o…
Raul Cano, 63 , now the director of the Environmental Biotechnology Institute at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo … [fermented] a yeast strain Cano found in a piece of Burmese amber dating from about 25 million to 45 mill…
It was one of the very few dry evenings this summer. The sun had set somewhere beyond the Poddle and I’d just finished cutting the grass. What I needed, I reckoned, was a lawnmower beer. To the fridge, then, where I found a bottle of Gaffel Kölsch. T…