Archive for September, 2008

Andy Crouch’s BeerScribe.Com: Guys Most Likely To Change Your Mind About Big Brewery Beer – The SandLot Profile

The heart of Denver’s popular LoDo District plays host to an unlikely brewery whose brewers are quietly challenging beer conventions in unlikely ways. Tucked away deep in the right field corner of Coors Field, the Sandlot Brewery has won almost as m…

Andy Crouch’s BeerScribe.Com: A 2008 Great American Beer Festival Preview…

The 27th annual Great American Beer Festival will be held October 9-11, 2008, at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. More than 46,000 beer enthusiasts from around the world will attend the event, where they can enjoy 1969 beers from 43…

Sybeeritic: MillerCoors Donates Brewing Equipment for Education

MillerCoors has donated $100,000 worth of brewing equipment to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to be the cornerstone of a new course in brewing and fermentation science.
“This is a unique collaboration and partnership that will incorporate best pr…

Andy Crouch’s BeerScribe.Com: The Full Sail Interview with Jamie Emmerson…

Based in the heart of the beautiful Columbia River Gorge, the Full Sail Brewing Company of Hood River, Oregon, is one of America’s oldest craft breweries. The brewery is an interesting mélange of personalities and attitudes, ranging from assertive…

Andy Crouch’s BeerScribe.Com: The Myth of Handcrafting…

When it comes to craft beer, perhaps no word is tossed around as casually and as often as ‘handcrafted.’ From the earliest days of better beer to the present, craft breweries big and small have loved to up the romance of their brands with allusio…

Lyke 2 Drink: Red Wine Cuts Flu Risk

When you line up this year for your flu shot, you may also want to pick up a few bottles of red wine.Researchers at the University of South Carolina say a chemical found in red wine, apples and onions cuts the risk of influenza. This is especially tru…

beernews.org: Great Lakes Barrel-Aged Blackout Stout release is Oct. 15

(Cleveland, OH) – Great Lakes Barrel-Aged Blackout Stout arrives on Wednesday, Oct. 15, as part of a Mug Club Members Only party with the beer being available on tap and for sale in bombers (limit of six per person). The Rackhouse Ale, an American S…

It’s The Beer Talking: Offbeat News: Beer is the Most Popular Alcoholic Drink in Kazakhstan

 

According to the Centre Daily, beer is the most popular alcoholic drink in Kazakhstan, with the domestic market experienced booming growth in recent years. Kazakhstan has attracted considerable attention from international brewers for it is seen a…

It’s The Beer Talking: Offbeat news: Schools Board debates beer-run penalty

Coming to us from Pensecola, Fl. Escambia County School Board members want to wait before deciding the fate of the transportation director who admitted purchasing beer for his employees.
At Tuesday’s regular meeting, some officials asked for mor…

Mikkel(ler)’s Blog: The Beer Nut: Mikkeller, su keller

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