Documentary about the struggles of opening a brewery
This sounds like a good watch. After a successful kickstarter this film is in the final stages of promotion leading up to a release during the fall of this year. In the meantime, MittenBrew has a nice...
View ArticleThe guy suing over Blue Moon is an idiot
BeerGraphs lists all the salient points in this case and tries to be nice about it. But doesn’t everyone do this? Your Mercedes dealer isn’t required to tell you that you are buying a Chrysler. There’s...
View ArticleSam Adams is bringing back one of their discontinued beers
Full scoop at the full pint. Samuel Adams brewers will pull recipes from their “vault” and ultimately choose two winning brews to be re-released nationally for a limited time. Through online and...
View ArticleGreat article on beer aging
Complete with a review of an 18-year-old (!!) barleywine. There’s a ton of great info, getting into the weeds with the specifics: You’ll also notice that ribes, a quality associated with blackcurrant,...
View ArticleBells announces participants for 30th anniversary fest
Bells is inviting breweries from all of the country to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Full list is here. Most of the usual suspects are here but there’s some very distant and relatively small...
View ArticleNew documentary series on San Diego beer from PBS
It’s called “Kings of the Craft“. Check out the trailer above. Debuts this Thursday, May 21st at 9pm on PBS stations and will be streaming online the following day. The post New documentary series on...
View ArticleStates ranked by “most solid” beer
Beer graphs compared the BAR25 (the combined aggregate quality of the top quarter of a brewery’s offering) and solid% state by state. The results are actually pretty intriguing! Pour yourself a...
View ArticleSay what?! Jester King is using green glass on purpose!
Many will find themselves unable-to-even with this. While green bottles permit the risk of light struck/skunky character, I feel they add character, even beyond skunkiness. So many breweries have...
View ArticleBrewers adapt to changing climate
Brewing has been a highly adaptive endeavor for hundreds of years. Everything from using the abundance of the wheat crop to adjusting recipes to new temperatures has led not only to plentiful...
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Happy Birthday, America!
Independence Day is a fine reminder of our country’s relationship with and contributions to beer. From a founding father being plastered on a zillion bottles of beer bearing his namesake to the...
View ArticleNFL punter is apparently also experienced homebrewer
NFL preseason starts up in little more than a week and All About Beer has a nice little piece about NFL punter Brandon Fields and how he gets his jollies during the offseason. Fields scored big,...
View ArticleLike Beer? Try Whiskey!
SommBeer–a pretty cool blog if you haven’t checked it out before–has some advice for the craft beer fan on how to approach whiskey. Whiskey and beer, although they are completely different kinds of...
View ArticleBeer Cocktails – Yay or Nay?
For better or worse, I’ve started seeing a lot more beer cocktails showing up on menus. These range from your garden variety Shandies and Radlers (which are also increasingly common packaged straight...
View ArticleA hangover by any other name
Brookston has a great piece compiling information on the history of the term “hangover” and other phrases that have been used. Believe it or not, apparently the word “hangover,” meaning “a severe...
View ArticleFall Seasonals, now in Summer!
The first day of fall is nearly a month away, but… The annual pumpkin spice apocalypse is already upon us. Woe upon your house parties, for they will be stocked with the gnarliest of seasonals. No...
View ArticleStout vs. Porter
You may have heard some definitive distinction that seperates these two styles but whoever told you that was probably just passing along nonsense. Roasted barley. That’s the usual explanation of what...
View ArticleJim Koch picks a dream 6 pack
Jim Koch (Sam Adams founder) gives an interesting list of beers he’d like to have in a dream six pack and explains his love of each. He mostly keeps it simple. In the 1990s, Rob Tod was learning to use...
View ArticleHatin’ on Pumpkin-Hate
Beer blog Joe Sixpack has some contrarian real-talk for all the pumpkin’ haters. C’mon, people eat spicy food all summer, so why not spiced beer? In fact, one of the most popular warm-weather ales –...
View ArticleBeer Reviewing Pros and Cons
All About Beer has a very thoughtful (and thorough) piece on the ups and downs that go along with the avalanche of beer feedback available nowadays. “The beer websites, in particular the forum...
View ArticleRide the Lager – Metallica limited edition Budweiser
No, this is not a joke. Well, it kind of is. But I’m not sure who’s supposed to be laughing. According to Le Journal de Québec, METALLICA has teamed up with Labatt to produce a limited-edition run of...
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