Beer News
• Pong Beer: The new brew designed for beer pong
Marketing gimmick? Stroke of sweet genius? Either way, Pong Beer may be coming to a store near you. “Behold, Pong Beer,” says Kim Bhasin at Business Insider. In case college kids don’t have enough options for cheap swill, a brewing company has designed a beer exclusively for beer pong. You know the game, where competitors [...]
• Pittsburgh preps for first craft beer week
New York City has one. Philadelphia has one. Even Cleveland has one, for crying out loud. And in April, Pittsburgh’s local beer industry will have one, too. Planning is under way for the first Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week, to take place around the region April 20-28. The week will give members of the local craft [...]
• Brew Exchange: Beer on the trading floor
The bell rings and pandemonium ensues — the screaming traders, the mad waving of colorful stock order slips, the smell of money. Wall Street? No, last week Brew Exchange rang the opening bell on a fresh concept of stock market pricing at a new West Sixth Street location. Here, beer is sold according to the [...]
• Beer key to ultra runner’s success. YES!
WANT to know the secret to running seven marathons on seven continents in less than five days? A bottle of beer apparently. Irish ultra-marathon runner Richard Donovan embarked on his incredible journey less than a week ago in a bid to raise money for the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa. The 45-year-old ran [...]
• Why Craft Beer Doesn’t Have A Super Bowl Ad
Craft beer lovers love to boast about how their beer is booming while “yellow beer” fizzles, but on Super Bowl Sunday they’re drowned out by Clydesdale hoofbeats. If craft beer and small, regional brewers are such a game-changing force in American beer, why are they completely absent from the Super Bowl’s annual marketing blowout? With [...]
• Abita Brewing introduces canned beer
Consumers and loyalists of Abita Beer will have more places to bring their malt beverages starting this week. “We want our customers to drink our beer more places and more conveniently,” said David Blossman, president of Abita Brewing LLC. The Abita Brewing Co. has bottled its beer since it opened in 1986, selling “heritage style” [...]
• Super Bowl 2012: Beer Lover’s Guide to the Giants and the Patriots
The combatants are determined. The New York Giants and New England Patriots are set to square off in Super Bowl XLVI, a rematch of four years ago. From that game, 15 Giants players and eight Patriots remain on their respective teams, including starting quarterbacks Eli Manning and Tom Brady. With the season ending Sunday, I [...]
• Crafty: Montreal’s craft beer scene
Second-largest city in Canada is heart of our neighbor’s brewing revolution. There’s something about Montreal. Maybe it’s the city’s bilingualism. Maybe it’s the multiculturalism. Maybe it’s the infusion of youthful energy that stems from having the highest concentration of college students in North America. It’s hard to peg, but there’s something different about Canada’s second-largest [...]
• Dogfish Head Announces Beer / Wine Hybrid Noble Rot
Clay is the perfect material for capturing time in a bottle. As molecular biologists have discovered by unearthing ancient tombs, organic residue trapped in porous chards of pottery reveals quite a bit about what our ancestors drank on the special occasions of burial feasts. It’s interesting that thousands of years ago – in places such [...]
• Another soul-less beer hits the shelves as Budweiser unveils new lighter beer
The much-hyped new beer, Bud Light Platinum, from Anheuser Busch InBev has finally hit shelves. Touted as not quite Bud Light, and not actually Budweiser, the beer is said to “appeal to a key group of beer drinkers and expands consumer occasion.” Bud Light Platinum has 6 percent alcohol by volume and 137 calories. In [...]
• YAY! New Orleans International Beer Festival debuts in March
New Orleans gets a new beer festival on March 24. For the past two years, Red Mountain Entertainment of Birmingham, Ala., has produced the Top of the Hops beer festival on the north shore. Today they announced that the festival will move to Champions Square and be renamed the New Orleans International Beer Festival presented [...]
• First Icelandic Craft Beer Arrives in U.S.
California Gets First Taste of Three Arctic Craft Ales. More than a thousand years ago, Icelanders were the first Europeans to discover North America — now it is time for North America to rediscover Iceland. Einstok Olgerd, an Icelandic craft brewery, has announced that the first shipment of its unique ales has landed in the [...]
• Homebrewing: How to Make Your Own Crystal Malt
Crystal malts are a staple in almost every beer recipe. Light crystal malt, like C-20, is used in pale ales, the darker C-120 can be used in stouts, and every recipe in between calls for some variety of crystal. Since crystal malts are among the few styles that do not need to be mashed, they [...]
• Atlantic City Beer & Music Festival 2012
That’s right! It’s back again – the Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival! Featuring brewers from around the world and a great day of suds. For two days Atlantic City will be taken over by beer lovers from all over to sample some of the finest micro brews available. The Atlantic City Beer Festival is [...]
