Beer News
• Masters of Marketing, BrewDog Hits Out at Mainstream Beer
Scotland’s largest independent brewery has released Fake Lager as a “direct attack on the heartland of Britain’s crap beer culture”, writes Samantha Graham. Fake Lager is a Bohemian Pilsner designed to be “everything that mainstream, mass-produced lagers are not.” With a confrontational name and positioning, BrewDog said it hopes “Fake Lager will chip away at [...]
• Beer Edges Wine As Young Women’s Drink Of Choice
Who says beer is a man’s drink? Beer has passed wine as the beverage of choice for women ages 18 to 34, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Julia Herz, craft beer program director for the Brewers Assn. trade group, said women in their 20s and 30s are in “the sweet spot” for craft beer [...]
• Beer giants under investigation in Germany. Not too big to sue.
Several of the world’s biggest brewers are under investigation in Germany having been accused of price fixing and could pay millions in fines. German magazine Focus, recently accused Carlsberg, AB InBev, SABMiller, Warsteiner, Oetker, Erdinger, Bitburger and Krombacher of fixing the prices of 24 beer brands including Beck’s, Holsten and Warsteiner. Apparently the brands have [...]
• Win a Beer-cation to Brew Hawaii!
Explore the rich beer culture and offshore adventures of Hawaii’s most verdant isle barefoot, by car, sailboat, or beach cruiser… it could all be yours for the taking. With its deep green valleys, immense white sand beaches spreading out for miles, and endless blue water beyond, Maui is a paradise of natural riches. It’s also [...]
• 5 Ways to Use Leftover Beer. Who Has Leftover Beer?
St. Patrick’s Day has passed, and you have a ton of beer left over. There is no way you are going to drink it all, so what do you do with it? There are lots of great — and unexpected — ways to use up the leftovers. Here are five of them: Great for the [...]
• Oregon State brews up online, on-site classes for beer makers
To fill a knowledge gap among both professional and hobbyist beer-makers, Oregon State University has created several online and on-site short courses for brewers who want to refine their technical skills. On-site offerings will take place this summer in the brewing hotspots of Portland, Bend and Corvallis, allowing students to network with some of the [...]
• Finland Brewery To Make Beer Inspired By Bottles Found In Shipwreck
Local authorities on the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea say a local brewer will begin producing a beer inspired by bottles found in a 19th century shipwreck three years ago. Five bottles of beer, along with 168 bottles of champagne, were pulled from a submerged schooner that experts believe sank in the 1840s. Aland [...]
• How Beer Gave Us Civilization
HUMAN beings are social animals. But just as important, we are socially constrained as well. We can probably thank the latter trait for keeping our fledgling species alive at the dawn of man. Five core social instincts, I have argued, gave structure and strength to our primeval herds. They kept us safely codependent with our [...]
• Celeb Beer Watch! Iron Maiden Serves Up A Brew
Three decades after giving the world The Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden is poised to release its latest work — and it’s a beer. That’s the latest from the Metal Injection website, whose “Bands and Booze” section makes it uniquely qualified to present such news. The band collaborated with Robinsons, an English brewery with [...]
• Chicago Liquor License Would Prohibit Selling Crappy Beer
This is what every liquor license would look like if beer snobs ran the world. The Garden Gourmet, a grocery store in Chicago’s East Village, may be granted a liquor license that allows them to sell only craft beer and higher-end wine. No booze, no malt liquor, no fortified wines, no Budweiser. In other words, [...]
• Physics and Green Beer Bottles
I have a new beer rule. Avoid beer in green bottles. Just to be clear, this is a rule for myself. You can drink green bottled beer. In fact, you should always try to drink the beer that you like. For me, I will avoid the green bottles. Why? If you drink beer, you may [...]
• Google Drive Spreadsheet Autofill Option For Beer Drinkers
Creating Google spreadsheets doesn’t have to be a boring undertaking, especially if you’re a fan of beer. Here’s a fun little autofill option that the Drive team has put into place to help you list out popular beers. Simply type the word “lager” in the A1 cell of the spreadsheet and then “ipa” in the [...]
• Celeb Chef Rick Bayless To Help Crown Create Craft Beer
The TV host and restaurateur, known for Mexican cuisine, is partnering with Crown Imports to make a brew. Bayless is the latest chef to partner with beermakers in a trend that elevates the blue-collar beverage to fine dining. Celebrity chef Rick Bayless, known in the US as the unofficial ambassador for Mexican cuisine, is partnering [...]
• Anheuser-Busch Punches Back Water Scandal With Ad Campaign
-Busch this morning responded to a string of lawsuits, including one filed Thursday in Dallas, accusing it of watering down its beer for profits. You can see for yourself on page A16 of the Sunday Houston Chronicle: A clever full-page advertisement featuring one of the company’s canned waters that it distributes for free during times [...]
• Congrats! NYC Writer Wins 2013 Beerdrinker of The Year
Warren Monteiro, a New York City freelance writer, beer traveler, homebrewer and beer columnist, was chosen as the 2013 Beerdrinker of the Year yesterday at Wynkoop Brewing Company. Monteiro’s in-depth beer expertise, extensive travels in pursuit of beer, and his efforts to promote great beer to others helped him win the 2013 title. “This year [...]
