Hugh points out this great map of the U.S. on Wikipedia, showing the number of craft breweries per capita:Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Vermont stand out. I’m ashamed to say my home state of Florida is embarrassingly far behind. Restrictive laws have a…
Big Black Pumpkin (8.0% a.b.v.)Made with 100lbs real pumpkin, 20# cocoa nibs, and pumpkin pie spices (ginger, allspice, nutmeg, clove, and cinnamon). Nice and spicy in the nose, full bodied porter, with a smooth chocolate finish. The Curse IPA (7.3% …
Over the past few years Elysian Brewing Company has been having a very special event. The Great Pumpkin Beer festival or better known as the GPBF. This years GPBF 2008 was no exception. They had some great pumpkin beers and well some no so great pumpk…
Let’s go to the movies Let’s go see the stars. Red lights holler deep Depression What do we care? Movies are there! Only happy endings (boy gets girl, yes) that’s our recipe! Welcome to a lovely M-O-V-I-E!Yeah, I was 6 years old when Annie came…
The good folks at Widmer Brothers sent me a few of their new seasonal brew, Brrr. That was awfully nice of them and a habit more of you should consider adopting – especially nice as this will only be available in 17 US cities over just the next two mo…
A friend sent me this amusing story of innovation in homebrewing: Chad Renzelman pleaded no contest to heroin possession, saying he used “a handful” of dried poppy pods to flavor a batch of home-made beer. Police found the batch of beer in h…
Via Shanghaiist, a Current video showcasing Qingdao, that cradle of Chinese beer culture midwifed by German colonialism:
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We recently overheard a young German woman talking to an Australian friend on the tube. He said he’d love to go to Oktoberfest sometime. She snorted derisively and said:
“Oktoberfest is only for tourists. It exists to make rich men even ri…
A friend recently visited Dubrovnik, and took some beer photos featuring local beers which I’ll be sharing over the next few days:Osujsko PivoThanks to Admiral for the photo.