Healthy Booze

There seems to be a growing trend in looking for health benefits in booze. I first really noticed it probably around fifteen years ago when studies were showing that drinking wine might be good for the heart and in preventing cancer. Suddenly people were dedicated to their nightly glass of Cab Sauv with […]

Red, Blue and Blah

For days, beer lovers and political junkies with too much time on their hands have wondered which beers would be chosen for President Obama’s so-called beer diplomacy meeting. (In case you’ve been sleeping for the past two weeks this is about an arrest of a black Harvard professor by a white Cambridge police officer […]

Kicking the BrewDog

This kind of thing really gets me.
Scottish brewer BrewDog recently came out with a high alcohol beer called Tokyo. The ale is made with jasmine and cranberries. Champagne yeast helps push the alcohol percentage to 18.2 which makes it the highest alcohol beer available in Britain today.
And, naturally, the neo-prohibitionist groups are competing […]

Dying English Pubs

Anyone with a passing interest in beer has probably heard how English pubs are closing at an astonishing rate. The latest numbers say that they are going down at a rate of seven a day.
There are some general culprits that everyone seems able to agreed upon. Increasing taxes on beer, rising unemployment, the […]

Summertime Ale

Summer is when lagers shine. They are generally more refreshing, have a higher level of carbonation and a more subtle flavor profile - all qualities that make a cold lager on a hot day a lovely thing indeed.
But don’t turn your back on ales during the dog days! There are some great ale […]

Beer Back on Top?

According to a recent Gallup poll Americans are choosing beer over wine once again. It was a tight race there for a while but, if one is to believe the results of this survey, beer is back on top.
Why? Oh, sure, let’s go ahead and speculate. For a few years wine was […]

Canoe Pirate

I’ve never considered buying beer for an underaged kid before but, I probably would in this case.
Casey Whittington of California spent some time patching up an old canoe a few weeks ago. After putting the finishing touches on his boat he wanted to make sure that it was fully repaired. He put it […]

Loving the Shandy

I seem to become more liberal all the time in my acceptance of what beer can be. There was a time when I wouldn’t have even considered mixing beer with anything else. Even the black and tan seemed a little wrong. I had this idea that what one found in the bottle […]

The Party’s Over for Molson Retirees

What’s the perfect job? Well, for me it has to include beer at some level. More than once I’ve considered working at a brewery because most provide their employees with regular supplies of free beer.
How about a company that provides beer during retirement? Sign me up!
But as quickly as I learn about […]

Beer and the Recession

There is a belief out there that beer is recession proof. Proponents of this idea point to the smaller recession in recent decades where sales of beer improved while the rest of the economy retracted. The idea is that as money gets tighter people want to continue to drink - or drink more […]

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