Beer Tycoon
Beer Therapy (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The executors of the estate of the late Michael Jackson, known as “The Beer Hunter,” have donated the contents of his office to the Oxford Brookes University Library. Don Marshall, of Oxford Brookes University Library, said: “We are very excited to receive this gift of the books and papers of ‘The Beer Hunter.’ The Michael Jackson [...]
Beervana (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The first of many OBF-related posts continues with this numerical breakdown of the fest. I may add purty graph(s) later. Or a PDF of the beers by category. Or ... ? Well, we'll see how busy I get. Total beers: 72 Total breweries: 72 Number of states represented: 17 Percent Oregon: 40% Percent California: 21% Percent Upper Midwest: 10% Percent Washington: 10% Number of styles: 24 IPAs: 9 (13%) Pale...
Appellation Beer (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Andrew Mason, assistant brewer at Flossmoor Station in suburban Chicago, writes he got the strangest phone call yesterday from somebody who identified themselves as from MillerCoors. The woman on the phone asked, “Are you or anyone you know interested in job opportunities with MillerCoors'” I very nearly laughed and I certainly didn’t take her seriously, but [...]
Beer Therapy (Free subscription) | yesterday
The blog Hot Knives has an interesting tale of Hugh Malone, an Irish hop farmer who loved his hops and may in fact been the first American to start the trend of over-hopping beers. He’s also the namesake of a great new beer from Allagash, Hugh Malone Ale, which is likewise quite appropriately hoppy.
BeerAdvocate (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Beervana (Free subscription) | yesterday
If Portland is Beervana,* then is the greater Bend area Little Beervana? With the new McBrothers, Bend Brewing, Cascade Lakes, and Deschutes, it was already well-breweried for such a modest population. Not well-breweried enough, it seems. Via Foyston , I see that Three Creeks is up and brewing--and earlier than expected: We just finished construction of our old west livery stable to house our operations,...
"Brew" Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Led by Bud Light Lime. Anheuser-Busch, powered by Bud Light Lime, posted second-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street analyst forecasts. A-B reported earnings of 95 cents per share, above the consensus estimate of 93 cents. A-B’s earnings increased by 1.8...
Hedonist Beer Jive (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beer hounds the world over are gossiping about the arrival this month in bottles of RUSSIAN RIVER BREWING ’s double IPA, PLINY THE ELDER . This beer’s been an on-tap favorite of many for a few years now, with some folks describing it in rapturous terms and traveling through hell’s half acre to drink a mere pint of it. I guess, having had a few pints of this in my time, I’ve never quite really understood...
The All-Grain Evangelist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brewers are always looking for things to do with spent grain from brewing beer. It seems like such a waste to throw it away. Many commercial brewers give their grain to farmers to feed to livestock. Some homebrewers make bread. For me, many years ago, I got a recipe for dog biscuits using spent grain. I'm not exactly sure where; I think maybe off the Homebrew Digest. You see, Julie's mom, my mother-in-law,...
The Brew Site (Free subscription) | yesterday
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My Beer Pix (Free subscription) | yesterday
My Beer Pix (Free subscription) | yesterday
My Beer Pix (Free subscription) | yesterday
My Beer Pix (Free subscription) | yesterday
SevenPack Beer Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday (July 21) was Belgium’s Independence Day, so in late celebration, a review of a Belgian beer! This beer could also qualify as one of my “Spring Cleaning” beers, since it has been in my fridge since February. I am not really sure why I have not had it yet, other beers have [...]
