Archive for September, 2008

My Beer Pix: Check out Lost Abbey’s GABF Video

Lost Abbey submitted a video as part of a GABF marketing campaign. The topic had to be why beer lovers and brewers love GABF and what the brewery is doing regarding its sustainability efforts. I think the video looks pretty good.

To can find othe…

Asheville Beer Blog: Festival Time

Did you miss Brewgrass this year?  Or if you went, did you leave thinking to yourself that you need to get to another festival?  Well don’t worry, there are several festivals happening in the region over the next month to whet your beer appe…

Fresh hops in FoodDay

For those of you who aren’t regular FoodDay readers, here’s my story about the Lab hop harvest in the Sept. 30th FoodDay Abby and Ben with Wednesday’s harvest Portlanders are eagerly forging new connections with the land that feeds them,…

The Beer Here – OregonLive.com: Fresh hops in FoodDay

For those of you who aren’t regular FoodDay readers, here’s my story about the Lab hop harvest in the Sept. 30th FoodDay Brewer Ben Flerchinger and brewery friend Dan Klug were in charge of hops collection at the Lab’s recent…

boakandbailey.com: How do you maintain a good beer culture?

En Español
La Ronda (the Spanish speaking version of the Session) takes on a weighty philosophical topic, with Jorge Mario of Columbia asking:
How do you construct, consolidate and maintain a good beer culture?
I’m going to define a good beer …

boakandbailey.com: ¿Cómo mantener una verdadera cultura cervecera?

English version
Jorge Mario, de Columbia, ha preguntado:
¿Cómo construir, consolidar y mantener una verdadera cultura cervecera?
Voy a definir una verdadera cultura cervecera como una, donde hay un montón de diferentes fábricas de cerveza, y dond…

Monday Night Brewery : Atlanta, GA: Brewing a pumpkin ale requires plenty of pumpkin

Actually, it doesn’t. A lot of the perfectly good pumpkin ales you’ll find in stores are brewed with 0 lbs of pumpkin. Much of the flavor comes from the spices, like a pumpkin pie. But in our case, we used 10 lbs of pumpkin for 10 gallons …

LIQUID DIET: the blog: This weekend: antsy brew in Kennett Square, grand re-opening in South Philly.

Another big weekend is coming up for craft beer folks.
Saturday is the sold-out Kennett Brew Fest, which is always good for a few unusual beers.  Jeff Norman, assures me by passing on an email just now, that this year is likely to enhance that tradit…

Beer Haiku Daily: About the Bailout

We need a change from
Martini sipping bastards
Stealing our money

Written by Captain Hops.
References: Check out the new Beer for President 2008 blog. It’s time for a candidate that America can get behind. Get real straight talk on the importan…

Pop the Cap South Carolina: Smuttynose Comes to SC!

Smuttynose Brewing Co. of New Hampshire will begin distribution in South Carolina. According to the Carolina Craft Distributing website, it looks like we’ll be getting Shoals Pale Ale, Smuttynose IPA, Old Brown Dog, Robust Porter & Portsmout…