Archive for October, 2008

Potable Curmudgeon, The: NABC Fringe Fest underway … prime time today and tomorrow.

NABC’s first ever Fringe Fest got underway Thursday afternoon, and we’re quite happy with the turnout on opening night. Given the perfect weather, all of New Albany’s annual Harvest Homecoming celebration seemed to be thriving on what normally would b…

Draft Magazine Feed: Drunk emailing: a thing of the past?

We’ve all done it. Drunk dialed, drunk texted, or drunk emailed. Sometimes we can laugh about it, but usually we wish we hadn’t.
Now there’s help.
A sympathetic engineer at Google, who admits to drunk emailing himself, designed a way…

Thom’s Beer Blog: 865. Berliner Kendall

865. Berliner KendallI had a glass of this with brunch at the CBC sometime in August.Beer Stats:Brewery: Cambridge Brewing CompanyAlcohol: 4.30%Serving: TapStyle: Berliner Weissbier, BJCP Style GuideAppearance: 4.0 | Smell: 3.5 | Taste: 4.0 | Mouthfee…

Seen Through a Glass: Beer Before Liquor: never slicker

Cathy and I caught a morning flight to San Francisco yesterday, but not before being accosted by two hooligans in the terminal: Don “Joe Sixpack” Russell and Origlio craft/import genius Jim Meiers. They were on their way to Denver for GABF. After a fe…

Slashfood: Gmail tackles drunk emailing …finally!

Filed under: Beer, ScienceAlways on the cutting edge of innovation, Google has done it once again, attempting to make drunken emails a thing of the past.Equally dangerous for making your friends think you are a bad speller or a lush, drunken emails ca…

beernews.org: New Glarus Brewing to come out with brand-new Alt

(New Glarus, WI) – New Glarus Brewing has even more going than its busy Unplugged schedule. Unplugged Apple Ale, which is slated for a November release, will be joined around the same time by a new beer in the brewery’s seasonal line: Alt. The…

Wort’s Going On Here?: Fossil Fuels Brewing Company

Raul Cano extracted DNA from an ancient Lebanese weevil entombed in amber shortly before the movie “Jurassic Park” was released. A few years ago, Cano became a partner in Fossil Fuels Brewing Company, donating a yeast strain he had found in a piece o…

Madison Beer Review: Since The Subject Seems To Keep Coming Up Lately

All right, it’s time for the boring tax issues. What a great intro, eh? Hey, I know a great way to ensure that no one reads the article! Really? How!? Tell them it’s going to be boring and that it’s about taxes. But it probably will be boring. Then wh…

Yours for Good Fermentables ™: YFGF gets press

Yours For Good Fermentables.com received press attention in the Mid-Atlantic Brewing News, October/November 2008 (Vol. 10 No.5). Baltimore correspondent Alexander D. Mitchell IV wrote:Tom Cizauskas, long-time sales rep for Clipper City, tapped his fin…

Stonch’s Beer Blog: Beer and MSG

Beer and MSG