Calling all beer geeks! Montreal, and specifically downtown Montreal where we'll be, is home to several microbreweries and brewpubs. I know Jennifer and Willy have been pushing the local cuisine, well here's your chance to expand your ...

“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and ...

Thanks to all who participated in Friday's Session, hosted here at Stonch's Beer Blog. The choice of subject - Beer People - came naturally to me, yet caused consternation for some. Alan at A Good Beer Blog complained that "a lot of ...

Bottling has been a loosing battle with me as of late, but I hope that this is not the case with all of the beers I sent out. In the end, the metallic flavor died down a little bit, but never enough to make the beer really appealing. ...

Roosevelt took steps to fulfill his campaign promise to end the national ban on alcohol by spurring Congress to modify the Volstead Act to allow the sale of beer (with an ABV below 3.2%) in advance of the Twenty-first Amendment being ...

Wait, isn't every day Beer Day in Brew City? Well, says the mayor's office, this is particularly Beer Day, "in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the first legal beer deliveries in the United States." ...

Last week as I was typing my Beer People Session piece a txt message came thru from Adam that the Malthouse had just put Three Boys Oyster Stout on handpump*. I jumped into a cab and was down at the bar within the hour. ...

This beer is a fairly strong malty golden ale which is fantastic in cold weather, and pretty good in the Northern Hemisphere around the festive season. The beer has a lot more hops than the average beer and it gives it a real kick ...

Today is Steve Wagner’s 50th birthday. Steve is a co-owner of Stone Brewing and the new president of the California Small Brewers Association. In the late 1980s, Steve was a member of the band “The Balancing Act,” who put out several ...

Schlitz has a long, rich history in the world of domestic US beers. There are still several buildings here in Chicago with the logo permanently set into their brickwork. Schlitz was among the first to go national with their product, ...

Much talk about going on about the Supreme Court of Wisconsin and the recent election. I want to talk about something else for a bit. Remember this time of the year back in 2000? The Wisconsin Badgers were just ending a run at the NCAA ...

OK, I have friends who say I am a beer “snob”… I can drink ANY kind of beer but I prefer ones with more ‘bite” to them. Light beers don’t cut it with me. And I’ll try “crazy microbrews” or imports just to see what is out there. ...

Best caption, story, or rumor about this weird vehicle wins a beer. Please, no truth, facts, etc.

In the mouth, this is an excellent beer. The initial sensation is a pretty strong citrus bite on the tip of the tongue. After this, a rather complex floral note comes along and seeps into the nasal cavity, giving this beer a rather big ...

This isn’t necessarily news to anyone but me, but since it is new to me, I thought it warranted a post. Wheatwine! Who knew there were such a thing? My first introduction to wheatwine was Beer Advocate Magazine’s Volume II Issue I that ...

There are many people in the world can’t pick up a telephone and make a phone call. This needs to be fixed. I think open hardware and software is the key. Imagine an IP08 low power IP-PBX connected to a WRT54 type router, ...

Made from whole grain sorghum, this beer is brewed by people who have Celiac Disease. The tagline for this beer is "Good Friends, Unbelievable Stories, Incredible Beers". The packaging for this beer is about the coolest for a beer I ...

I'm sitting here, sipping a Mug root beer. I LOVE root beer. I've had lots of different kinds too. My favorites are A&W and Sioux City Sarsaparilla (my dad used to buy it once in awhile as a treat for my sister and I). ...

The root-beer kegger was “to kind of make fun of the school,” he said. “They assumed there was beer in the cups. We just wanted to have some root beer in red cups and just make it look like a party, but there actually wasn’t any alcohol ...

For those who want more info on Mirror Pond, featured in my last review, see this post from a couple weeks ago on the Beervana blog. It’s got some interesting (firsthand!) information on the evolution of the Mirror Pond recipe.

Beer festivals have the potential to bring out busloads of bacchanal hedonists to begin with, but AC this year … well, a few people were probably skating home in their own sick. Enough said. Meanwhile, the longest day of the year ...

Tyson is probably enduring warm, flat, beer in London.

There is no doubt about it – beer is the refreshment of choice for majority of the British. Indeed, it has been referred to as the country’s national drink many times over. So what is the big deal about beer? Perhaps, in order to answer ...

Mad Mex is a small takeaway Mexican joint where you can sit and enjoy cheap, tasty Mexican food over a Mexican beer or margarita (not made from mix). G + I have been there twice now and do recommend it for a quick and good meal on that ...

Since I wrote that, I got talking to the management in Redmond's who said that American beer by the six-pack is definitely the way forward and that people will buy a cardboard basket of US imports for around €13 who wouldn't buy single ...

MILWAUKEE -- Craft beer by its definition is small, both in batches and distribution. So, what does it mean when the nation's second biggest brewer takes its most popular beer and does it up, craft-style? It's confusing, analysts s

Media people get lots of stuff from companies seeking publicity. Much goes unread, tossed or deleted. NPR's Noah Adams got a box containing a 6-pack of Budweiser bottles. The beer company was seeking a story on the repeal of prohibition. Budweiser got its wish, but the beer wasn't the hook.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Two Illinois teens face up to 20 years in prison for beating a homeless man to death over beer. Joseph Lee Raines, 17, and Brandon Carol Bouck, 18,...

For a long time beer and university life have gone hand in hand, at least outside the lecture theatre, but now Massy University is bringing the brew inside the classroom for the benefit of its students.

Corona Extra became America’s best-selling imported beer by pitching itself as a vacation in a bottle. But dark clouds are moving in on the beach party.

POLAND — Juanita H. Cobb Beer, 77, died Friday, April 4, 2008, at her home. She was born Nov. 3, 1929, in Akron, the daughter of Leroy and Audrey Knappenberger Cobb.

MILWAUKEE -- Craft beer by its definition is small, both in batches and distribution. So, what does it mean when the nation's second biggest brewer takes its most popular beer and does it up, craft-style?

Yes, there is a better way to serve beer. While American beer once meant light lager, today it encompasses a wide array of flavors concocted by innovative craft brewers whose varieties — and in some cases alcohol content — approach the breadth of wine and spirits.

A good buzz wafted around the tables at the Anacapa Brewing Co. in downtown Ventura on a recent Monday night, and not all of it came from the beer. Some of it tumbled off lips. Craft beers, in their cycle of ebb and flow from popularity's fickle tap, are back again, riding another smooth pour of sorts.

Learning how to home brew beer is not that difficult. Onceyou find the ingredients and discover how the processes workto make your beer, you will find it is easy to home brewbeer.

I’ll make no bones about it; I love beer. From a warm, nutty pint of English bitter, to an ice-cold Belgian lager, I’m all over it. But you don’t just have to drink beer straight from the bottle or jar (although that’s the best way to use it). If you’re feeling experimental, here are 21 (the legal drinking age in most states)...

New Retirement plan... If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock one year agoyou would have $49.00 left.With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of BEER , one year

It has been legal to make wine at home since the end of prohibition, and legal to make beer since 1978, but it's still illegal to distill spirits for beverage purposes without going through so much fuss and bother that the government admits flat out that it's "impractical." That's too bad, because homemade moonshine is incredibly frugal...

.. they made teens take breath tests, none tested positive for alcohol.

In Berkeley, California. Digg it if you love you some quality beer.

What do you get when you put college parties, beer, and the Wii together? A jolly good time. In talking to a few college students from around the United States NFA learns one of the most important ways to use your Wii. "The drunker we get the more fun it becomes," stated a student from NC State.

Here is a collection of mixed drinks and cocktails that are collected from various places. Click through for the recipe and associated stories.Rum And Root Beer -- Developed by accident at a science fiction convention.Mudslide Martini -- Adapted from TGI Friday's recipe.White Russian -- The Dude abides.Mochatini -- As made at Applebee's

Kölsch (pronounced “koelsch”) is a beer brewed exclusively by the breweries in Köln (or Cologne to the English speaking countries). The beer style has been around for several centuries, but was never called Kölsch until the Sünner ...

This month's session is being hosted by Stonch's Beer Blog. Jeff (AKA Stonch) has chosen the unusual topic of Beer People. I had a tough time deciding how to approach the Session this time. I finally decided I'd take the liberty to ...

Regardless of the destination of that first delivery, there were many, many more to come: More than 1.5 million gallons of beer were reportedly consumed in the first 24 hours! Although the country’s drinkers would still endure a full ...

I followed the label's orders and found this beer to have pleasing golden/straw color, an excellent head and powerful, maybe overpowering, hops. But it felt odd to be told what to do by a beer label. More organic beers are appearing on ...

That person might be a brewer, a publican, someone who sups at your local, or maybe just a friend who is passionate about beer. Let’s read some pen portraits of your companions on the path to fermented enlightenment. ...

Her beer earnings have afforded the GOP presidential nominee a wealthy lifestyle with a private jet and vacation homes at his disposal, and her connections helped him start his political career — even if the millions remain in her name ...

Flossmoor Station (Illinois) is holding its “Repeal of Prohibition” event on Saturday night in which it will launch its bottled beers for the first time. Note: A late surprise? The brewery just got approval for its Sheol Barleywine to ...

The Session is a monthly beer-themed group writing project for bloggers. This month’s theme is Beer People and it is hosted by Stonch. I think these three snapshots of my friends, brothers, and drinking buddies stand on their own. ...

I don’t know about you, but I have a jammed packed beer-filled weekend, tonight we’ll be getting together with some friends, drinking some beer and playing some Rock Band. Tomorrow, I’ll be brewing a Two Hearted Clone (currently Irene’s ...

Any man who claims he was destined to own a brewery - since his first sip of beer at age 12 - and it follows up by starting a brewery that has grown into a fixture of the craft beer landscape has my respect. ...

The revelation that I had been fooled by a beer calling itself Bière de Malmedy that was in fact not from the commune of Malmedy at all, got me thinking about the whole issue of appellation, that geographic identifier some products ...

You see, there are whole styles of beer that I generally avoid just because they seem, well, wimpy and bland next to their most similar cousins in the beer style galaxy. Pale Ales are [...]

I have a friend who thinks Mich Ultra is an exceptional beer. I nearly get sick from even thinking about drinking it. So you can imagine how I took his recommendation to try Sam Adams Irish Red. I didn’t even know they MADE an Irish Red ...

To try and sum up then; Blandford Fly is a Marmite of an ale. You’ll either love it or hate. I happen find it outstanding. And as it’s my blog, it gets a high rating. If you like unusual beers and ales, this is well worth the risk. ...

On Saturday the 16th of February David, Win, Jadyn and I went to the afternoon session of the Extreme Beer Fest. The setup was pretty similar to the last fest I went to at the Cyclorama. There was a nice selection of beers. ...

It was July 17th, 2007, and I was on the tail end of my Great Northwest Beer Adventure. After a month of busing, thumbing, and train-ing all the way up to Vancouver, I was on the last leg of my trip, staying in San Francisco’s Presidio ...

Dad drinks the Troegs with me and I tell him lots of nerdy stuff about the beers and he acts sincerely interested which makes me happy. He's always been a great listener and these are the times I notice that. ...

Ever since I had the pleasure of trying Ten-Fidy from Oskar Blues I've been trying to get my hands on more beer from this brewery. A very kind soul sent me a bottle of this beer. Oskar Blues normally puts all of their beer in cans, ...

Maybe I’ma hack who parades as a beer reviewer, but I’m at least a hack that drinks a lot of beer, and I’ve never been confronted with a beer that labels itself only as ‘real’. So, I’m not going to bother and research the style - I’ll ...

Dogfish Head Fort is another example of Dogfish head making unique and extreme beers. This is the worlds strongest fruit beer at 18%, stronger than most wines. This is a limited release beer brewed every December with "over a ton" of ...

Early Release Day beer critique. What do ya think???? If anything, I’m an excellent judge of beer. Not the best pic… I really need to figure out how to work my new camera (that I got for christmas…) And, I’m proud to say I drank this ...

My wife bought an excellent beer today and it was very tasty. A bit expensive at $7.88 a six pack "on sale," it was a nice treat for every so often. The beer, from the New Belgium Brewing Company, is an organic wheat beer called ...

The Natural Blonde, from Grand Ridge Brewery is a classic wheat beer with a very similar flavour profile to Hoegaarden. It’s very refreshing, clean and goes down nice and easy. The organic IPA from Mountain Goat Beer is everything you ...

With the growing popularity of low-carb diets, we had a lot of requests for obtaining low-carb beer-making. So, we have a dagger thrust to collect some facts, the small beers from breweries should keep carbohydrates to care. ...

Non-alcoholic beers have fewer calories than light beers but "light" beers have fewer carb grams and "low-carb beers" fewer still (averaging 95 calories and 2.6 grams of carbohydrates). Choose either kind of brew and you're ahead of ...

Research says that some ingredients in beer can fight cancer. Men are now telling their wives that instead of watching football, they are “fighting cancer”. - Jim Barach.

Im in a good mood today because I've just ordered myself a reconditioned beer engine off someone in the trade at a good price. Looking forward to getting it and dispensing from a vented cornie keg. I'm also looking forward to designing ...

I have never found the beer in here to be at the peak of cask conditioning. It always seems a few notches off and so it was yesterday. Each beer selected seemed just a tad off what it could be. We drank beers from Skipton, Blakemore and ...

i was bitten by the beer bug this week as warm weather is popping up. i don't know, when it is warm i am compelled to drink and that was not good for WI. i gained 1lb. not that bad but still. so on top of all my other goals i have know ...

Two Illinois teens face up to 20 years in prison for the fatal beating of a homeless man over a can of beer.

Bought beer lately? Well, the phrase champagne taste on a beer budget may no longer work.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Two Illinois teens face up to 20 years in prison for beating a homeless man to death over beer. Joseph Lee Raines, 17, and Brandon Carol Bouck, 18,...

Chuck Ash, manager of the Bi-Lo on Devine Street, drove to the store’s corporate office in Mauldin at 5 a.m. Friday to get the paperwork for a Sunday beer and wine application. His store was the first of several retailers in Columbia to get the go-ahead Friday from the S.C. Department of Revenue to sell beer and wine through Sunday, starting this weekend. “The new one reads: ‘Seven-day a week ...

Craft beer by definition is small, both in batches and distribution. So, what does it mean when the nation's second biggest brewer takes its most popular beer and does it up, craft-style? It's confusing, analysts say, but it makes sense for a company like Miller Brewing Co. as it woos today's drinker, who wants more flavorful brews. It also makes sense from a money standpoint because craft beers ...

MILWAUKEE -- Craft beer by its definition is small, both in batches and distribution. So, what does it mean when the nation's second biggest brewer takes its most popular beer and does it up, craft-style?

For a long time beer and university life have gone hand in hand, at least outside the lecture theatre, but now Massy University is bringing the brew inside the classroom for the benefit of its students.

Baltimore is bringing it all together for the 2nd Annual Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival.The festival boasts more than 40 different kinds of bourbon, from popular brands such as Jim Beam and Wild Turkey to more obscure brands including Buffalo Trace and Noah's Mill.

In the spirit of Southern hospitality, Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy shipped locally brewed beer and Chapel Hill's world-famous barbecue to Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- Two Granite City teens are facing up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder charges in the fatal beating of a homeless man for a can of beer.

Ubuntu Eee is an Ubuntu derivative optimized for the Asus Eee. Where Ubuntu strictly chooses free (as in speech), we're open to choose free (as in beer). As a result; Ubuntu Eee is packed with premium applications such as Picasa 2.7, Skype 2, Wine, Avant-window-navigator and every piece of hardware working out of the box!

Learn more about beer and how to brew your own.

Beer kegs allow you to buy your favorite ale or lager in volume. Standard kegs have a volume of 15.5 gallons (US) or 12.5 gallons (UK Imperial). That equates to 1,984 ounces, or about 165 glasses of beer at 12 ounces each. Keg beer is inexpensive because of the bulk discount, with no need for hundreds of cans or bottles.

After a couple weeks here of almost all Tibet, almost all the time, I’d like to take a moment to discuss some different subjects, basketball and beer. OK, mainly just beer. The occasion is the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Each March, 65 U.S. colleges participate in

It gets worse for a figure nicknamed the "hyper-president" or "president Bling-Bling" for his ultra-personalisation of power and attraction to media exposure

Here is John McCain, dressed in a Budweiser-NASCAR costume, with his $100-million-dollar wife, who owns Budweiser, and NASCAR hero and Iraq War promoter Dale Earnhardt (Junior), the president of the Confederacy.

If 8 glasses of water a day is a myth --how about 8 cans of beer then?

Placing masked glassware on a new background can be a difficult task. Either the glass looks too transparent, with bits of the old background showing, or it lacks highlights, or shadows. The techniques covered in this tutorial are not limited to Octoberfest beer mugs. You can use these practical techniques for any type of glassware in composite Pho

With the 5th Annual Craft Brewers Conference only weeks away, Karl Strauss Brewing Company is busy preparing for the San Diego Beer Community Convergence. This private, industry party will be held on Friday, April 18th at the Karl Strauss Main Brewery in Pacific Beach. Click the link for more info.

Yes, there is a better way to serve beer.

Brain Death was the creation of two homebrewers and certified beer judges, both highly respected brewers. For reasons that will become apparent, they wish to remain anonymous. A potent barleywine (OG 1,100), Brain Death contained an extra ingredient that one of the euphemistically calls "special hops".

Following the route of Oskar Blues, New Belgium is going to start packaging their wildly popular (as far as craft beers go) Fat Tire in aluminum cans, making it easier to sneak those bad boys anywhere. And easier to recycle.

A bar in Belgium made entirely out of beer crates claims a new world record.

What could you buy for the princely sum of £1.80? Three bars of chocolate, maybe half a pint of beer?Well £1.80 is precisely how much Royal Navy chefs have in their daily budget for the breakfast, lunch and dinner of each serviceman and woman onboard their warships.

After years of field-work, I can pronounce beer as the king of alcohol.

Quite possibly one of the best mobile beer cooling / drinking devices that I have come across. We Tasty Boozers were lucky enough to have one of these bad boys show up on our door step last Friday so that we can take a first hand look ...

Fast on the heels of another highly successful year, the American craft beer industry is gearing up for another profitable year and the challenges that accompany success. As the segment continues its development from a tiny niche to a ...

The AP continues its pursuit of objectivity by focusing on barley and hops in the presidential campaign. […] Read the rest »

The Finnish family business Lasistudio reclaims glass bottles and jars without crushing them in order to create new objects. All the products are hand-made in an old barn in Finland. By taking advantage of the original shapes of the ...

A Good Beer Blog is one of those sites that has it all goin' on. Great writing, author interaction, active reader community including professional and not so professional beer geek/nerd/critic/fan/dog commentary, good search engine ...

I have certainly met and got to know a lot of people through the world of beer, however I have decided to focus not on the well known brewers, publicans or journalists I have met but on those I drink beer with the most, the boys. ...

In my last post about canned beer I talked about the history of beer in cans, how my wife should bring me back some Surly cans from Minnesota and how Oskar Blues found some serious success when it took a risk and became the first ...

"Beer is yellow with foam," Gansler told reporters at a news conference, holding up a bottle of Smirnoff Source, which is described this way on its label: "contains pure spring water + alcohol." "This is not beer," he added. ...

01:05 – Troy fills us in on his background and how he has become such an accomplished beer blogger and TAPS Magazine contributor. He shares some of his favourite pubs including, C’est What, Granite Brewery, Rebel House, Rhino, ...

Like spring itself, spring beers don’t really exist in Maine. In order to have any impact, they would need to be on the shelf by mid-February — when it’s still very much the heart of winter — or stay on the shelf well into April or May, ...

Some folks consider a fruit beer to be a bit girly. Even Matt, someone who I once thought was a respectable drinker, thinks that any hard cider is for sissies. I completely beg to differ. I think the use of fruit in a beer or a cider is ...

The South End News reports a South End man, apparently jealous of his girlfriend's babydaddy - who was sleeping upstairs at her West Newton Street residence - allegedly threw an open container of Natural Ice Beer at her Saturday evening ...

This beer has a good reputation among beer geeks, and I traded for a bottle of this beer. It does come in a very nice silk-screened bottle with the most amount of information I've ever seen a company put on their bottle. ...

That's where the use of the British hop varieties differentiates this beer from others of the same style. We also followed the design philosophy of Shipyard's other beer recipes, placing the emphasis on balance and drinkability." ...

This month's Session (hosted by Stonch's beer blog) is all about beer people. I've chosen to write about a beery acquaintance of mine who I am proud to be able to call a friend; someone who has educated me and inspired me in the ways of ...

Taste TO is pleased to announce that we’re teaming up with fine food & drink import agency, Roland + Russell, and Ontario’s premier craft beer website, The Bar Towel, to co-present a pair of tasting events on Friday, April 25th and ...

Airy for a local beer tasting course taught (in conjunction with the Mt. Airy Learning Tree) by none other than Joe Sixpack himself, Don Russell (pictured above). I attended the event with my good friend Pat who, along with his wife, ...

The Unique Geek are following up our Caffeine Appreciation Month with Geek Beer Month. They have declared it and thus it is so. They explain their rationale for each entry. For example, for Rogue Chocolate Stout, "What Makes Is It Geek? ...

Rarely has Guru contemplated leaving his post as global HR sage, but it did flicker across his mind when he read what was on offer in Cadnam, Hampshire. Michael Hammond placed a 25p advert in the New Forest village’s Post Office asking ...

But he won’t go out of his way to try new beers. If he goes to a pub and all the real ale is off, he’ll be disappointed, shrug, and order a Guinness. He’s not bothered enough about beer to walk to another pub. ...

Yesterday's lunch break saw another new beer for me. Plain Stout from Messrs Maguire in Dublin was dry, slightly sour, with some good roast malt body, but it lacked a good shot of bittering hops to make it a classic stout. ...

On Monday brewer Melissa Myers (formerly of Drakes, Ross Valley, and some sort of position at Magnolia as I recall, and currently working on plans and investors for her SF brewpub project) sent an email around about a guest beer she ...

It wasn't until much later that I realised how lucky I am, from a beer-and-travel point of view, to have married the woman I did. Which is why I'm nominating Mrs Beer Nut as my beerpal for this month's Session. ...

The photo above, which I took this afternoon, is of an innovative calling card sent by our colleagues at Pantopicon, a consultancy based in Antwerp, Belgium.* It's a door hanger with a detachable set of advertisements for hypothetical ...

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Heineken and Carlsberg are now splitting up the assets of Scottish & Newcastle. Carlsberg is acquiring full control of the Baltic Beverages Holdings joint venture. The Danes will additionally take control of S&N’s French, Greek, ...

A good choice of beers, but I fear I made the wrong decision-again. Plumping straight for Hop Back Spring Zing (4.2%) on the basis it would have some bite; I was to be confounded again. This was a reasonable pint, but was slightly too ...

Free Beer Brolly Pouring Tool from Bass Beer - Helps you pour the perfect black and tan. For years, people have attempted to pour a Bass Black & Tan by placing a crude spoon over the lid of their pint glass. Frankly, that’s just not ...

It’s the first Friday of April, so it’s time for The Session — a monthly event that brings beer fans together to share their thoughts on a specified theme. This month’s theme is Beer People. Now, I don’t know too many people in the ...

The theme is "Beer People" (explained in more detail here). Remember, anyone with a blog or similar website can take part. My own contribution will follow during the course of the day, with a round-up of everyone's posts appearing here ...

Beer, not cash, is what burglars wanted when they broke into two Thurston County businesses early Thursday morning.

Retailers in Columbia could be granted Sunday permits to sell beer and wine as early as today. Columbia residents voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to give city convenience stores, supermarkets and other retailers the right to sell beer and wine 24 hours a day, Monday through Sunday. Businesses that had sold beer and wine Monday through Saturday could apply for a Sunday license as early as this ...

EDWARDSVILLE - Two teenagers pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder charges in the fatal beating of a homeless man for a can of beer.

Members of the Wort Hawgs, a Winston-Salem homebrewers' club, take beer seriously, as seriously as people who collect vintage Bordeaux. But not too seriously.

Two popular indulgences will be combined into one with beer flavoured chocolates on the menu at a conference in Auckland this weekend.

Vermont's brewers say hopheads are in for a rough couple of years. In the face of a global hops shortage, many small breweries are raising prices, refiguring recipes and discontinuing certain hops-intensive products. Many of Vermont's beer-makers said this week that they are in the same boat. "It's affecting us greatly," said Steve Parkes, head brewer at Otter Creek in Middlebury, who said he ...

Drinking too much wine damages the brain more than beer or spirits, scientists have discovered. New research on the long-term effects of heavy drinking shows that one area of the brains of wine drinkers was smaller than that of other people studied who drank different drinks in greater amounts.

    Johnson City Commissioners approved beer consumption on downtown streets for this year's Blue Plum Festival.  It was the first of three required readings for the measure.     Police arrested 76 people last year.  Most of their 84 charges included public drunkenness and misdemeanor drug posession, officers said.     The Blue Plum Festival is scheduled for June ...

FOX RIVER GROVE – Fox River Grove’s Jason Siska rallied to win his tribe pizza and beer on the eighth episode of “Survivor: Micronesia – Fans vs. Favorites.”

Blonde Ale is one of three new craft beer versions of Miller Lite the company's releasing nationally between now and September. They'll also start selling Miller Lite Amber and Miller Lite Wheat.

On a spring day at a speedway in the South, John McCain posed with his wife, Cindy, and racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr., highlighting the couple's political and business interests in a single snapshot.

Three new craft beer spinoffs from Miller Lite will be launched nationwide as Miller Brewing Co. continues to exploit a growing consumer preference for craft beers.

As heiress to her father's stake in Hensley & Co. of Phoenix, Cindy McCain is an executive whose worth may exceed $100 million. Her beer earnings have afforded the GOP presidential nominee a wealthy lifestyle with a private jet and vacation homes at his disposal, and her connections helped him launch his political career — even if...

For my Mexican Seduction Meal I chose to serve "el amor de mi vida" Grilled Portobello Mushroom Tacos with Pico de Gallo, and Guacamole with warm chips, Served with a chilled glass of beer and a wedge of lime --- let the fiesta begin!

It's a final exam every college student could pass.

As heiress to her father's stake in Hensley & Co., Cindy McCain is an executive whose worth may exceed $100 million. Her beer earnings have afforded [McCain] a wealthy lifestyle with a private jet and vacation homes at his disposal. McCain himself reports little more wealth than when he started in politics.

Authorities say a transient climbing over a chain link fence in Vancouver choked to death when he got tangled in the straps of his beer-filled backpack. Police said his backpack contained about a dozen 40-ounce bottles of beer.

As a recent college boy, and a retired fraternity man at that, I’m frequently expected to know quite a bit about nature’s most perfect food, which is to say: beer. Thereby, I present to you all, three breweries that make it a point to not pillage the earth.

Why then would anyone healthy in mind or loins choose to “go” to college via the internet? How does one cruise the dorms for fresh flesh scholars via the internet? How does one casually drop a book for a young English professor to retrieve…via the internet? How does one Beer Bong with a Quarterback via the internet? It is impossible!!

It was March 28, 1988 that the first Airbus A320 was delivered to Air France for testing and training and it entered into service on April 18, 1988. So, really, this is an ongoing birthday celebration from March 28 - April 18, 2008 as there is not really a "born on date" like with humans or Bud Light beer bottles.

By David SwansonA dozen of us have begun a sit-in at the House Judiciary Committee office. Come join us at Rayburn 2138. Leslie Angeline and Ellen Taylor of Code Pink are the leaders here. Laurel Jensen is here, and Michael Heaney, Thalia Doukas, Darryl Love, Ed Dickau, Michael Beer, Jes Richardson, Mike Marceau, Dan... People are joining us

The Finnish family business Lasistudio reclaims glass bottles and jars without crushing them in order to create new objects. All the products are hand-made in an old barn in Finland. By taking advantage of the original shapes of the waste packages, only 1/4 of the energy needed to shape new objects from melted glass is used

I have add several items and categories to try to list as much ‘In Flames’ items as possible. Today I have add Flags, guitar picks, sticker, beer coaster, candy, some CDs….

This weekend April 5th and 6th Obrien's Pub in San Diego, Ca will have a very special Belgian Bottle Festival that will feature more than 85 different bottles from last weekend’s Belgian Beer Party at Pizza Port Carlsbad! click the link for more info

I'm giving up beer bongs for a more sophisticated way to bust my nut. Piper is going to help me with a 12 step solution to transition from college freshman to professionals

If it seems like you are paying more for your cereal, beer and pizza lately, shake your fist in the direction of Pakistan, Uganda and Argentina...

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Scientists who debunked need for 8 glasses of water daily need more time for beer research..."And maybe a bunch of pizzas."

Barack Obama is serious about getting the common people's vote. Now Barack's bowling, eating hot dogs, and drinking beer too.Obama finished with a score of 37 -- a perfect game is 300. There was no sign of windsurfer John Kerry at the Obama-Bowl-a-Rama.

If you have not heard of Sitehoppin then it�s time you check it out. Sitehoppin is an all in one stop for your site traffic. Sitehoppin uses beer credits to bring your site more traffic, you hop, you vote, you gain more credits to have your site viewed.

Review of Sam Adams White Ale, their seasonal Spring Beer. Mmmmm...beer.....

Ever feel like the person commenting on the other end would never act that way if they were talking to you face to face? If so, you're dealing with a "keyboard commando". If you were at a bar with them, you might just say, "listen to that idiot; must be the beer muscles". Stop these morons in their tracks and check out this article.

Cindy McCain: Beer executive could be next first lady Columbus Dispatch PoliticsDispatch Politics - The Columbus Dispatch's national and local politics portal ... Cindy McCain: Beer executive could be next first lady ...

Cindy McCain's Assets From Beer Distributor Are In Her Name, But Have Given Candidate A Wealthy Lifestyle

On a spring day at a speedway in the South, John McCain posed with his wife, Cindy, and racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr., highlighting the couple's political and business interests in a single snapshot.McCain served as honorary starter of the NASCAR race that weekend in Charlotte, N.C. Earnhardt drove the Budweiser car, painted military camouflage

A University of Minnesota study says easy access to the high alcohol beer could be contributing to higher homicide rates in black communities. Author of article misses the fact that the price of a 40 is $1.87 - 187 is murder.

Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

Watch our brand new web ad for Jeff's Green Collar Happy Hour on April 11.Want to know more about Jeff Merkley's plan to combat global warming? Check out Jeff's Energy and Conservation page.Join Jeff Merkley at the Lucky Lab Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby in Portland.

Andrews Distributing is one of the biggest beer distribution companies in Texas. When an organization delivers countless cases of beer to every type of restaurant, bar, and nightclub imaginable, it starts to notice some things. ...

As Troy points out, the same sort of thing is happen in a discussion over at the Bar Towel, a brewer of admittedly less complex beers taking on the beer nerds. This is a great example of the difficulties that have been expressed lately ...

The official opening of Philly Beer Week began with the tapping of the keg by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. I was on hand at the mini-beer festival held at the Marketplace at East Falls. Among the produce stands were twenty brewers ...

Moor Beer is a microbrewery based just outside Bailey’s old manor in Somerset. Their website paints a picture of a charmingly amateur set-up, but there is nothing amateur about their beers. The Peat Porter is a lovely drop, ...

Athens, Ga. is holding its Classic City Beer Fest on Sunday. We really like Athens and we’ve never been to this one, so we’ll see you there. We’ll be the people with the shameless self-promotional t-shirts on. Beer will be rockin’ next ...

LOW-ALCOHOL beer. What is the point? To me, something always seemed disingenuous and suspicious about low-alcohol beers and lagers. In the same way that ‘edutainment’ computer games would try to cover up learning with fun. ...

So I quit my job as the GM of the Celebrator Beer News to be home with Porter. He attended a special preschool run by the county where we live and we hired therapists, play tutors, and an occupational therapist. ...

When we first started the Pop The Cap campaign five years ago, our focus was united around one single goal: lift the archaic 6% alcohol cap on beer in North Carolina. We reached that goal in two years and have been enjoying (and buying) ...

May 24, 2008 (Sat): The Michigan Brewers Guild has once again partnered with Crystal Mountain Resort in Thompsonville for the 3rd Annual Michigan Beer & Brat Festival, planned for Saturday, May 24. “The Michigan Beer & Brat Festival has ...

Talk about last calls: Brewers are facing a worldwide hops shortage that has left some smaller companies scrambling. Boston Beer Co. -- the maker of Sam Adams -- is...

Amidst the repeated spit takes, I learned that the Padres have raised the price of beer every year for the past four years, that a 16 ounce bottle of Stone Pale Ale will cost 9 dollars, (six pack price approx. ...

On the first Tuesday of every month the Wellington chapter of the Society of Beer Advocates meets at a different local pub or bar to socialise, and drink good beer, and/or campaign for good beer. Last year I posted about visiting my old ...

A hundred and fifty years ago, a few cricket types were probably sitting around having a beer trying to figure out how to work on the gut during the off-season, and came up with Aussie Rules. The ball in those days would have been a ...

That’s because the keg contained root beer.The party was held by a high school student who wanted to show that teens don’t always drink alcohol at their parties. Dustin Zebro, 18, said he staged the party after friends at DC Everest ...

YouTube - Beer pouring contraption (rube goldberg style). Ok - so I’m officially addicted to Rube Goldberg machines - in particular the ones that look really home made. Perhaps one day I’ll attempt to make one.

As when anyone offers to bring something over from the Motherland I make up a beer wish list. Unfortunately after making a truly geeked out list, I rewrote it deciding I was being overly detailed. Predictably the beers that arrived were ...

Lately I've been craving a root beer float in a big way. I had so much fun decorating my Chow Chow cupcakes earlier this week for the Martha Stewart Cutest Cupcake Contest that I thought making some root beer float cupcakes would be fun ...

This is one of those beers that makes can confuse a person. What is an Indian Brown Ale anyways? What kind of weird crossbreed style did Sam Calagione come up with? According to the Dogfish Head site, the Indian Brown Ale is: ...

When we are not enjoying a fresh beer at the source, we tend to visit 10 Center Street, The Grog, The Barking Dog, Not your Average Joes, and Rosie O’Sheas. We are blessed with quality beer offered at our local stores and tend to spend ...

img_3339_320x240.jpg. We have been making some great pork skins lately, thanks to some direction from our friend Andy Hayes. Clean the fat away, cook for 81C for 12 hours. Clean the fat, deydrate, fry and season.

It should be a humongous throng of Red Sox & Mets Fans, on the Last Regular Season Weekend of the Yankees in Yankee Stadium, as we do one last Yankee Stadium Pub Raid & drink the Bleacher Creatures Beer, under River Avenue: ...

Here’s what the ol’ facebook is telling me:. Date: Friday, April 4, 2008 Place: The Pit Pub @ UBC Time: 7-10pm. One is inevitably followed by the other, so you might as well get prizes for it! Come out to The Pit Pub this Friday night! ...

But not always. The Athens Craft brewery goes for style as well as taste. I have tried their beers in the islands - now it is time to taste them on their home turf. If I can squeeze them into my schedule. Which [...]

While I was out cavorting and visiting with my friends over the weekend, Keith was hard at work with his...

Dutch Euro commissioner Neelie Kroes is submitting a plan which would allow Dutch beer drinkers and coffee shop owners to claim refunds from the brewers by a simple procedure. ...

The secondary message is that the McCain family is a beer family, which dovetails nicely with the poll above. After all, it's easy to imagine rock and rollers as beer drinkers. Fans of Depeche Mode and Flock of Seagulls? Not so much.

Rollpalauza CC had their first club meeting last night, good to meet some new faces and share a beer or two. We gained a new new member as well and are now up to 29.

beer-cheese_sm.jpg Terri Jewett-Larkin was extremely friendly and helpful, offering to cut any cheese to any size. Still, I grabbed a small block out of the cooler that was aged 3 years called Great Grandad. But then I noticed a sampler ...

A shortage of a key ingredient in beer has shown that even business competitors can come together over a cold one now and then. That happened last week when the nation's...

Richland County voters are next up to weigh in on Sunday retail beer and wine sales. But other Midlands counties and towns say either they aren’t being lobbied to allow Sunday sales or their voters wouldn’t approve them. City of Columbia residents on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved allowing convenience stores, grocery stores and other retailers to sell beer and wine seven days a week. And ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A shortage of a key ingredient in beer has shown that even business competitors can come together over a cold one now and then.

A quarter-century after opening his first chocolate retail outlet in Calgary, Bernard Callebaut is toying with returning to the roots of his family business: Beer brewing.

The rise in beer duties after the budget was adding pressure on pubs when trading conditions were already challenging, Marston’s said on Thursday. The brewing and pub company expressed caution about 2008 in an interim trading update and the shares slipped in early trading.

Fans of Zlatopramen, Břežnák, Dačický and Louny beer, brands on tap across central and north Bohemia, should start mashing their local pride with some globalization hops.

No more stores in Andover can sell only beer and wine. Andover is tapped out. The Board of Selectmen awarded the town's last retail license restricted for wine and malt beverage sales on March 24. The quota for liquor licenses in a given community is set by the state according to the latest U.S. census figures.

On a spring day at a speedway in the South, John McCain posed with his wife, Cindy, and racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr., highlighting the couple's political and business interests in a single snapshot.

April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Grupo Modelo SAB , a Mexican brewer, has seen U.S. sales of its Corona Extra beer drop since a price increase last year gave competitors an edge, the Wall Street Journal said.

Let's see, now. . . . Write a term paper or brew some beer? That's the vexing question Florida International University graduate student John Egan faced with the end of the semester fast approaching. Either would suffice for the final grade in his for-credit, beer-brewing class.

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Read all about the prices of beers, the lines for the bathrooms and the idiot fans in this long-winded blog post!

The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Board of Directors approved a two-year agreement yesterday naming Bud Light as the official beer of Chicago's Navy Pier.The deal with Anheuser-Busch runs through April 2010. It will earn Navy Pier $225,000.