LIQUID DIET: the blog: Then again, maybe not.
Lew suggests this morning that maybe A-B sold itself too cheap.
An alternate theory: they saw the handwriting on the wall.
Archive for September, 2008
Monday Night Brewery : Atlanta, GA: Cooling wort in the summer
Our post a few days ago brought up some thoughts on cooling wort. In the South this is especially relevant in the summer. We brew outside, so getting the temperature down can be a time-consuming process. I thought I’d go into a little more depth…
Sybeeritic: Whisky as Resilient as Beer?
I’ve discussed brewing as a recession-proof “vice” industry previously, but it may have company: Michael sends in news that exports of Scotch whisky are up 14% in the first half of 2008, bucking the worldwide economic slowdown.
The growing acceptance…
Sybeeritic: Trappist Beer in Unlikely Places
On one of my last days in Cambridge, I took this amusing but unfortunately low quality photo on my cellphone:
You can’t really see it, but the the workman on the right it sitting on a Trappiste Rochefort crate!
LIQUID DIET: the blog: Let’s talk about beer.
Yeah, I know. It’s about time. I’ve been unusually silent here for the usual reasons.
This was deadline week for a couple of stories and the column for Mid-Atlantic Brewing News, following hard on the Celebrator Beer News deadline the week…
Sioux Brew: Take the Sioux Brew Weekly Quiz #67
This is the 67th of a weekly trivia quiz on beer and all things beer related.
What is a Märzen?
Answer by posting a comment.
And as always, no Google cheating!
Past questions and answers can be viewed by clicking on…
Beer Examiner: Oregon craft brewers bring you “Fresh Hop Beer Tastivals.”
Hood River Fresh Hop Beer Tastival will be October 4With over 1,400 small American breweries crafting thousands of great beers it’s hard to keep up with all the innovation going on in the craft brewers world. As part of the annual …
beernews.org: Harpoon Chocolate Stout debuts this winter
(Boston, MA) – Harpoon Brewery will debut Chocolate Stout later this winter according to a label approval that came in this week. An interesting play considering that this is a style that could appease both seasoned beer connoisseurs and the broader…
stlhops.com: Stephen Hale on The Brewing Network
If you’re not a fan of lowbrow, childish humor, I’m going to stop you right here. This isn’t to imply that Schlafly’s Stephen Hale is some sort of vulgar comedian, but that The Brewing Network’s Sunday Session has been k…
Champagne of Blogs, The: Bacon Week: Bacon Mints
Of all the bacon products I have received for review this week, Uncle Oinker’s Bacon Mints are the one I have been most dreading. Reviews online are pretty universally negative: ” … One of the