This bottle was saved from their 2007 release. It looks like the 2008 Mad Elf is just hitting stores along the Mid-Atlantic. This robust 11% ABV ale brewed with honey and cherries can be classified as a Belgian Strong Dark Ale. It fits that mold pr…
In recent years InBev have been trying to diversify their lager sales from purely Stella Artois into ‘The Artois Family’. This is a strategy employed with reasonable success by Kronenbourg (more on this another day) who are now owned by Ca…
(With the current market crisis, this puts a friendly spin on things..)
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have $33.00…
Turning a hobby into a full time job – one that keeps a roof over your head – sounds like a dream come true. And, when your hobby’s home brewing and you transform that into a money spinner – well, a lot of blokes would think that’s about as …
Pure Hoppiness from Alpine Beer Co.
Wish I was down in San Diego for O’brien’s Wet Hop Festival, which is going on right now as I type.
From Tom Nickel:
I am expecting 24 different wet hop beers from San Diego, Northern…
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Ben and I had the opportunity to attend a “talk” given by Peter Egelston, owner of Smuttynose, and Rick Tufts, co-owner of Triangle Brewing Co at the most recent World Beer Festival in Durham, NC. Both of these gentlemen make some pretty…
When I posted recently about local winners at the GABF I also mentioned that Black Mocha Stout from Highland Brewing in Asheville, NC had been awarded a Silver medal in the American Stout category. This award peaked my interest as I had a couple bott…
What’s with all the acronyms? I don’t know, but I heard on the radio this morning a story on NPR that was interesting and wanted to pass it along to you, my beer-loving friends. It’s a story about Social Normalization and on-campus drinking at Univers…
Blogging upon other people’s bloggy observations is one other the lowest forms of blogging. Yet, when someone like Pete Brown goes about actually going to real events and doing things like taking a cask of IPA to India by boat, well, that is really mo…