I’m not talking about just one can of PBR; I’m talking about the whole thing. Yup, Pabst has been sold.
It’s actually been on the auction blog for sometime now. It turns out that the previous owner, a non-profit, was violating a few rule by, you know, making a profit from the beer company. […]
Filed under: Beer on May 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
You know how it is; sometime you just have to throw a beer bottle at someone. It could be that they said something you didn’t like. It could be that you caught them checking out your date. It could be that they’ve had it coming for a long time. Or it […]
Filed under: Beer, beer bottles on May 17th, 2010 | No Comments »
Where’s your favorite place to drink? I like drinking at home either with a meal or in front of the TV well enough. But it’s definitely more fun to head out to the bars with friends. And it turns out that I live in the right part of the US for that […]
Filed under: Beer on April 8th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
First, you need to know two facts.
1) Hell or Helles is a light lager style of beer. It’s popular in Bavaria and is commonly served during the hot summer months. If you’ve ever seen a picture of tourists enjoying a beer in Munich beer gardens, chances are the beer they were drinking was […]
Filed under: Beer on March 31st, 2010 | No Comments »
Has this ever happened to you? You walk in your favorite beer store and suddenly you freeze up. You know you want beer, you just have no idea what kind. Do you want a light lager? Do you want something dark and chewy? Maybe you want something in-between. But […]
Filed under: Beer on March 28th, 2010 | No Comments »
In all honesty, this is just another meaningless beer competition. But, these are still fun to watch, aren’t they?
The Beer Madness competition is put on by The Washington Post. They ask they readers to apply to join the beer tasters panel. This means the judges are generally lay-people, not beer professionals. […]
Filed under: Beer on March 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Okay, I admit that a few weeks ago I shat on breweries for getting wrapped up in the “world’s strongest beer” contest. But I can’t help but be fascinated by stuff like this. So, like a moth to a flame, I was drawn to this headline: Brewer brews bitterest beer ever.
Even though it […]
Filed under: Beer on March 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
The big day is approaching. While you might feel obligated to grab a Guinness or one of those pints of green beer that started showing up a week or so ago, why not try some stout based beer cocktails this year?
Naturally, there’s the classic Black and Tan. Traditionally, the B&T is made […]
Filed under: Beer, sangria, st. patrick's day on March 11th, 2010 | No Comments »
For a long time the seasonal bock, Samiclaus, reigned as the world’s strongest beer with it’s now relatively mundane upper-teens alcohol percentage. Then as extreme beers came into vogue, some barley wines and imperial stouts began flirting with the same numbers. Finally, Sam Adams’s Uptopia galloped past with numbers that reached the twenties. […]
Filed under: Beer, whisky, microdistillery on February 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If you are a days-that-end-in-y kind of drinker like I am, then you probably look forward to St. Patrick’s Day with just as much anticipation as I do. The patriotic crowd can have their Fourth of July, the tree-huggers can have their Arbor Day, the glutens can have their Thanksgiving, the religious folks can […]
Filed under: Beer, whiskey, whisky, st. patrick's day on February 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment »