Friday morning: After a quick shower and breakfast, I headed out Rt. 62 to the Jim Beam distillery in Clermont, where I joined their press group for the distillery tour. I’ve been through Beam a few times, but I always figure there’s something new to …
Tis the season for Oktoberfest:
Prost!
Name: Hennepin
Brewer: Ommegang
Style: Saison
Vintage: 2008
Cellared On: July 18th, 2008
Original Tasting: August 19th, 2008
Hennepin was one of the first brews I reviewed for the Brew Basement. I liked it so much that this summer I decided to brin…
Waukesha, Wisc., city officials recently voted 9-6 to lift a 32-year-old ban on the sale of beer at gas stations.In ending the Prohibition on beer sales at service station convenience stores, aldermen in favor of the move said it was needed to help ga…
Pernod Ricard, a global big fish when it comes to spirits and wine, says several of its whisky brands are experiencing record growth.Sales of Chivas Regal blended whisky were up 10 percent in volume to 4.5 million cases, while Ballantine’s Scotch was …
The St. Louis Business Journal, quoting business analysts, warned yesterday that the Wall Street turmoil threatens InBev’s takeover of Anheuser-Busch.The turmoil on Wall Street has some analysts wondering whether InBev can finance its $52 billion ta…
Howdy y’all. Frankly, I haven’t seen a lot of new Unibroue beers out there recently. Not that this has stopped me from drinking them – I always love a good Don de Dieu or Trois Pistoles (which I see we haven’t yet reviewed. wtf?)….
You hear a lot of talk on the interweb and in the press about different brewers, right? One of the ones I keep seeing stuff about is ELYSIAN BREWING out of Seattle. Northwesterners seems to really dig these folks, and I know they’ve been successful …
Somehow I managed to be swinging by Placentia at 1:55 this afternoon, and luckily remembered/decided to see if The Bruery’s tasting room had opened yet for the day. Thankfully they open at 2pm. I went in and saw that a “sneak preview” of a new beer …
Outside The Shed – Stowe, VT
Me with one of The Shed’s famous “Skis of Beer” (left to right: Canadian-style Golden ale, Amber ale, their IPA, Porter, The Shed’s Mountain Ale — an English-style Old Ale which was voted no…