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The All-Grain Evangelist (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Here is a little story that happened when I first started to all-grain brew. It was brew day -- my third all-grain batch, in fact. The first two had gone pretty well. As a result, I was pretty cocky going into the the third. I had this all-grain thing down pat. I had a brand new thermometer for this batch of beer. This was a new Pyrex digital thermometer. In previous batches, I had used an old bimetal,...
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Appellation Beer (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Not sure if the seagull adding a pastoral note to this photo taken at Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia is the culprit, but yesterday we got dive bombed by a gull determined to eat some of our ice cream. First it swept over me (and missed), but it doubled back and nailed Daria’s cone as well [...]
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Beervana (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Chimay is the most well-known of the Trappist breweries, and most people who are beer fans will have had a glass--it's available at many grocery stores and you even see it on tap sometimes. One shouldn't construe this availability as evidence that it's a mass-market beer, though; Chimay is one of the most highly regarded brands in the world. History Compared to some of the other European monasteries,...
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"Brew" Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
"MillerCoors will become the best beer company in America by leveraging the power of its brands." MillerCoors announced its marketing leaders today. In a memo, MillerCoors Chief Marketing Officer Andy England said: "MillerCoors will become the best beer company in...
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National Bartenders Cocktail Recipes (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
1 part Absolut Citron 1 part Bacardi Limon 1 part Peach schnapps Fill with 7-Up Mix alcoholic ingredients one part each - and add 7-up. Eight shots of each requires a 2L bottle of 7-up.
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The Brew Site (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
I cracked open the promotional bottle of Long Hammer IPA the other night and enjoyed it while sitting out on the back patio. I didn't do a formal review this time around, but I can definitely say there were juicy hop notes, enjoyable toasted malt character, and it's easily drinkable on a hot day. I still stand by my original review in saying that I think it's light for an India Pale Ale, but despite...
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A Dash of Bitters (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Copyright 2008 A Dash of Bitters -- all rights reserved Shrubbin’ and shrubbin’ My fellow cocktail bloggers have been working on shrubs and gastriques for a while now. I don’t know why I’ve held off until now. Lack of ambition, perhaps. But I came back from Tales with a drive to try it out, and I’ll credit [...]
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Hail the Ale! Beer Blog (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Joe at Cigar City Brewing in nearby (well, to me, at least) Tampa, FL emailed to let us know that he’s opening a new brewery. While that, in and of itself, is newsworthy what’s really cool is they are blogging the whole thing. Ever wonder what it takes to start a brewery? Well, check out [...]
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"Brew" Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Losing share amid lower pricing. Corona Extra is gaining shelf space in supermarkets even as it loses dollar and volume share, according to beer market analysis by Nielsen. Corona lost 0.2 points of volume share and 0.5 points of dollar...
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Beercraft Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The East Coast does not lack for beer festivals during the summertime, but some events stand out from the rest. Ommegang Brewery’s annual Belgium Comes to Cooperstown festival is one of those great beer experiences, albeit with some disturbing undertones for the observant bystander. It starts with the setting itself. The brewery is architecturally stunning, [...]
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The Art of Drink (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, I finally had some time to sit down and put the presentation onto the Art of Drink. I wanted to format it in the style of the website, since having just the point form presentation leaves a lot of gaps. So, down the road I'll be adding "context" to each topic and hopefully for those that didn't attend or couldn't make it to Tales of the Cocktail will get some useful information. For now, the...
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Beer Therapy (Free subscription) | yesterday
You probably read about the recent travails of Mt. Shasta Brewing Co., makers of Weed Ales. Their crowns — the bottle cap on their beers — reads “Try Legal Weed,” which is funny because it’s brewed in the northern California town of Weed, which was named for an actual person: Abner Weed. Well, the federal [...]
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Hedonist Beer Jive (Free subscription) | yesterday
We were ripe for an update on the world’s greatest beers, what with all the good ones we’ve added to the list recently – so here they are, the finest 55 beers known to (one) man: 1. BRASSERIE DE ROCHEFORT – Trappistes Rochefort 8 (Belgian Strong Dark Ale) 2. MOYLAN’S – Hopsickle (Double IPA) 3. UNIBROUE – La Fin Du Monde (Belgian Strong Pale Ale) 4. ST. BERNARDUS – Grotten Brown (Belgian Strong Dark...
