Archive for October, 2008

Monday Night Brewery : Atlanta, GA: MNB wins an award of its own

Yes, this is the time of year when breweries start to tout their prestigious GABF medals. Well we’ve got a little bling of our own. Today we were named the clear victors in Adam’s “Best Homebrew Sites” contest. How did we win? …

SevenPack Beer Blog: Founders Dry-Hopped Pale Ale

Founders is a brewery that only recently found distribution in NC, and I’m very excited that they did. I haven’t had a ton of their beers, but their Kentucky Breakfast Stout is reason enough to let them through the pearly gates of any tow…

Brew Lounge : Beer Tasting Brewing and Culture, The: A Victory for You and the Phillies

Well, our faithful Victory correspondent Richard has just moved me a couple of steps closer to watching the Phillies/Dodgers game tomorrow night at Victory with this following note:

Well, if the ballgame doesn’t light your fire, maybe the beers will….

The Thirsty Hopster: Thirsty Hopster Lifetime Beer Venue Map

I should be writing my final GABF post, but instead I got really caught up in this idea of making a map of all of the beer places we’ve visited.  So here it is: Map!
The page that the link above connects to should explain most of what little th…

brewvana: Oktober-Fiesta

Our second installment of The Beer Education Project at Electric Burrito fell in the month of October, and so it wasn’t too difficult deciding what angle to use to teach and preach good beer.
Oktoberfest in a Mexican joint? Yes, and it’s c…

The Mad Fermentationist: Duck Confit for Cassoulet

Along with four breasts of duck prosciutto my two ducks also provided me with four legs for confit (using another great recipe from Charcuterie). The legs got a quick dusting with 1 oz of kosher salt along with pieces of garlic, bay leaves, black pepp…

It’s The Beer Talking: News: Rate Beer is down

This message greets ratebeer.com visitors today:
For the good of the community, we’ll pause now to let our security experts dig into the precious guts of our web server with the hopes they can make things clean very soon. I’ll post update…

Pfiff!: Announcing October’s inevitably spooktacular Fermentation Friday

That my strange sense of compulsion was deep and overwhelming is shewn by its conquest of my fear. No rational motive could have drawn me on after that hideous suspicion of prints and the creeping dream-memories it excited. Yet my right hand, even as …

beernews.org: Russian River Pliny the Elder returns to Liquor Max

Liquor Max just brought in a bunch of new beer and the full list is now posted online. Here are the new additions, including Russian River Pliny the Elder:
10-14-08 – Allagash/De Proef Les Deux Brasseurs Signature Ale 750s’ – $ 16.99
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Oregon gains much gold at the 2008 Great American Beer Festival

It was a good year at the GABF for Oregon brewers: a couple won double gold and one — Pyramid, which brews most of its beer in Northwest Portland in Portland Brewing’s former brewery — won THREE golds (one…