Friday, January 31, 2014

Drink More Beer.

http://www.mensfitness.com/nutrition/what-to-drink/6-surprisingly-healthy-beers

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The German brewers making foreign-style beer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25807126

Monday, January 27, 2014

The Super Bowl: the all-American tradition that without beer would almost be pointless. Yes, a football game does occur at some point on that Sunday, but the most important thing is the beer. Now for the Super Bowl, no one will look down on you for rolling up with an 18ner of Coors Light. But this year both teams happen to be from states which produce great craft beer. So it's only right that we treat this Super Bowl and a Craft Beer Bowl as well. We can also deduce from the location of the two teams that every fan in the teams' respective state will be undoubtedly high as well. So if you plan to have a super bowl party and you live in one of these states, be sure to double up on the munchies.

Here is GQ's list of the best craft beers for the super bowl:

http://www.gq.com/life/eat-and-drink/201401/craft-beers-super-bowl-party#slide=1

-Beside California Lager, this list is crap. Here is another list that is a little more comprehensive:
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/25162102-423/good-craft-beer-choices-from-super-bowl-teams-home-states.html

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Big Business News

Anheuser-Busch InBev Buying Back Oriental Brewery

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/business/international/anheuser-busch-inbev-to-buy-korean-brewery-for-5-8-billion.html?_r=0

Ancient Egyptian Brewers Tomb Discovered

A Japanese team found a 3,200-year-old Egyptian barley beer in the the tomb of ancient beer-maker Khonso Em Heb, who was known as the "maker of beer for gods of the dead."

Time gentlemen, please: The tomb of the beer-maker to gods of the dead dates back to 1,200 BC.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/20/world/meast/egypt-ancient-beer-brewer-tomb/

Jelly Belly Releases Beer Flavored Jelly Bean

Finally, now I can live entirely off of jelly beans.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/foodbeast/jelly-belly-to-introduce_b_4628522.html

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Best Beers by State

http://aleheads.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/beer-map.jpg

http://aleheads.com/2012/07/09/the-best-beer-by-state/

Cheers! America's Brewery Number is on the Rise

U.S. Brewery Count Grows to 2,722

Up from 2,403 in 2012.

24 large breweries (annual production over 6 million barrels)
120 regional breweries (annual production between 15,000 and 6 million barrels)
1,202 brewpubs (restaurant-brewery that sells 25% or more of its beer on site)
1,376 microbreweries (annual production less than 15,000 barrels)

http://www.brewbound.com/news/brewers-association-u-s-brewery-count-grows-to-2722

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

An Interesting piece on Germans and their Beer

I saw no lack of beer drinking while in Germany this past summer. I love German beers, I think German and Bavarian Pilsners are the most balanced and well crafted beers in the world. This article gives great look at the German beer industry and how it got that way.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/01/german-beers-existential-crisis.html

Trappist Brewery Opens in U.S.

I'm not a big fan of Trappist beer, but the first Trappist Brewery in the United States has opened in the town of Spencer, in central Massachusetts. The Saint Josephs Abbey will begin selling Spencer Trappist Ale this month. To officially qualify as a Trappist Brewery, the beer must be brewed under these conditions:

-The beer must be brewed within the walls of a Trappist abbey, by or under control of Trappist monks.

-The brewery, the choices of brewing, and the commercial orientations must obviously depend on the monastic community.

-The economic purpose of the brewery must be directed toward assistance and not toward financial profit.

Spencer Trappist Ale, made by the first official Trappist brewery outside Europe, will go on sale next week in Massachusetts.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/10/261398742/american-beer-fans-praise-the-heavens-a-trappist-brewery-in-u-s

For more information on Trappist beers and Trappist Breweries check this out:

http://www.stpeterslist.com/197/the-7-authentic-trappist-monk-beers/

http://www.trappist.be/en/pages/trappist-beers

Come on Peyton...Bud Light?

Left Hand Brewery Sends Peyton Manning craft beer after he revealed that the only thing on his mind was going home and drinking a Bud Light.

http://nesn.com/2014/01/colorado-brewery-sends-peyton-manning-beer-after-bud-light-incident-photo/

This is how you get your dog back...

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/offbeat_news/2014/01/ohio_woman_offers_beer_smokes_as_lost_dog_reward

Monday, January 13, 2014

Bitburger, Krombacher, Veltins, Warsteiner fined 106.5m euros for price-fixing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25721119

Jim Beam bought by Japanese company Sutory

Bottles of Jim Beam whisky at a distillery

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25712766

Friday, January 10, 2014

If you want to smoke BHO, leave production to the professionals

Rodrigo Fernandez, neighbor in an adjacent apartment complex, helps clean up after an explosion in Mount Vernon, Wash., in August. Police say it was likely caused when people extracted hash from a marijuana plant by mixing parts of it with butane in a two-liter pop bottle.

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261390781/marijuana-hash-oil-explodes-in-popularity-and-kitchens

Somebody had fun with this headline

Houston firefighter hops to it, extinguishes truck fire with beer

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/09/22244524-houston-firefighter-hops-to-it-extinguishes-truck-fire-with-beer?lite

(Of course he used Coors OG, the most reliable of all beers)

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Brewery Game for Iphones

http://appshopper.com/games/fiz-the-brewery-management-game

Relationship of Hops and Cannabis

I feel like this will become a new industry in Colorado and Washington, I'm not sure why it hasn't caught on yet, I'm sure most the THC cooks out during the boil. Also, dry hopping with cannabis buds sounds like it could add a lot of interesting flavors.

Here is a tip from the article:

"And yes, before you ask, homebrewers have made marijuana beer. Details online are thin, because the homebrew forums actively discourage discussion of it and the pothead forums are teeth-clenchingly imprecise. All I've found is 1) dry your bud first, then 2) don't add it to the boil without first soaking it in water to get the worst of the water-soluble tars out. I have no idea why people don't try to dry-pot their beer -- despite the worries I've read from these pot-brewers, the chances of contamination from the plant is very low, especially if you pasteurize it first. As for style, I've seen reports of a very dark ale recipe. Anything with a good malt backbone should be enough to dispel whatever gnarly flavors might develop. Finally, THC is alcohol soluble, so you probably want your beer to be in the 8% ABV range for maximum extraction. (Or just go the cheap and cheery route and extract it in vodka, then throw that in during bottling/kegging.)"