Last night I went to a new cafe with a friend of mine who recently went on a gluten free diet as prescribed by his doctor. I was pretty excited when we walked in and saw a fairly good sized craft beer selection (probably over 40 different beers). While I was looking over the list deciding what I was going to drink, he was telling me about eating gluten free. As I sat looking over…
Often referred to as Beervana or “Americas Beer Capital”, Portland, Oregon is an amazing place to be if you like good beer. Craft beer culture is everywhere around this great city and I love living here. If you’ve never been, I’d highly suggest adding it to your list of upcoming vacation spots. After taking over this blog, it has been on my todo list to add a beer guide for Portland. The site already had a great…
A bill which had been stuck in the Iowa state legislature for quite some time finally passed late last week and was signed into law by Iowa governor Chet Culver. The bill finally allows for beer with an ABV (Alcohol By Volume) percentage of up to 15% to be both brewed and sold in the state of Iowa. According to the Mason City, IA Globe Gazette, The legislation allows Iowa breweries to apply for newly…
America’s largest independent brewery, The Boston Beer Co. — the folks behind Samuel Adams — has announced the upcoming release (release dates to be decided) of a new series being called “The Sam Adams Barrel Room Series”. Each beer in the series shares the common characteristic of having first been aged in oak barrels. But that’s where the similarities seem to end. The first release, the Samuel Adams American Kriek (7% ABV), was aged on…
You may remember earlier this month when it was reported that the Utah State House of Representatives approved a bill (by a vote of 58-2) which would raise the state’s legal draft beer Alcohol By Volume to “full-strength”, rather than the watered-down, measly 4% it is today. Well, apparently not everyone in the Utah State Government is equally open-minded not incredibly ass backwards. On March 12th, the State Senate decided against allowing the sale of…
Apparently, in an effort to curb binge drinking among the younger folk in England, health officials there are considering a nationwide ban on what are commonly known as “happy hour” discounts at pubs and restaurants. The ban proposal comes amid worries that a rise in liver-related deaths among young people in the United Kingdom may signal a future epidemic. According to an announcement on The Huffington Post this afternoon, Health officials will decide on whether…
There’s certainly an influx of beer-and-chocolate news ’round here over the last few days, but that’s certainly nothing to complain about. Headlining the latest choco-news is the announcment that Samual Adams Chocolate Bock will once again be on store shelves this November. The Chocolate Bock is my personal favorite Sam Adams beer and is described as, After using a centuries old brewing process, called Krausening, we slowly aged the beer on a bed of rare…
It’s always interesting to me to see stories about the worldwide hops shortage continue to pop up in strange places – the most recent of which hit me when I opened the most recent issue of Inc Magazine which arrived at my doorstep a few days ago. The story, which is also available on inc.com, certainly didn’t reveal anything new about the crisis, and used the same old recycled story of Jim Kock’s generous donations…
My dad emailed me the link to a video on CNN.com today detailing a running club from Tuscon, Arizona who have planned a “30 Pack Marathon” in which every runner must “run a lap, drink a beer; run a lap, drink a beer…” Despite what you may think, the group is actually comprised of serious athletes who simply are looking for a fun, different way to try in the dead of the Arizona summer. Each…
An update on the InBev/A-B take over is expected to be released tomorrow, as the company will release a statement claiming that second-quarter profits fell (causing Anheuser-Busch to sell itself off) because of rising costs for barley and packaging materials, according to Bloomberg.com. For more info on the take-over (for those readers who don’t like to read), check out the YouTube clip from ReutersVideo below,