A quick video on what went down in Whitefish over the weekend….
Colbert vs. Walgreens Big Flats
Colbert is just too funny. And he occasionally focuses the humor onto beer. So watch this short clip. It’s after the bit on the new Superman.
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How Beer Saved the World
Quite the wink-wink, nudge-nudge trailer but it could prove to have some interesting beer info…..
One week from today on the Discovery Channel. (Thanks to the Brookston Beer Bulletin for the heads-up!)
from coasters to cans
The LA Times has been slowly covering more of the beer scene and in the Sunday paper a few weekends past they had this really cool page devoted to old timey beer cans…
(click on the link (twice) to embiggen the image)
My personal favorite is the Barbarossa.
Add to the beer bookshelf
What I don’t know about lambics could fill a book. That’s why I will be asking for this…
…for my birthday or Valentine’s Day whichever works!
Go to the great Books About Beer to pick up your copy.
Don Younger (and other beery news)
If you want to hear one of the people that made craft beer drinking as easy and fun as it is today, then take a listen to part 1 of Lisa Morrison’s interview with Don Younger of Horse Brass fame.
You can listen on iTunes HERE or go to her website HERE to listen to Don as well as learn about Fort George Brewing’s expansion and Full Sail’s Bump in the Night.
To learn about where craft beer was back in the 1970’s is amazing. Most bars had one tap and that one tap had one beer. Their beer menu was the neon sign outside that said either Olympia, Blitz, Rainier or one of the other breweries.
Hop Candy
If you are still looking for something to stick into the stocking of your beek geek friends this Christmas (oh and if you are near Belmont Station in Portland), grab some hard candy.
Oh, it’s made with hops. Bitter and sweet and tasting of Fuggles or Cascade hops.
I googled and bing’d the heck out of the interwebs but could find no company that manufactures them or any photos. All I know is that they exist, like the Yeti.
Bookshelf – Dethroning the King
I have added this book to my Kindle for iTouch and from the looks of the reviews, I will be e-turning pages very fast.
This is the story of how InBev took over the King of Crappy Beers. And it goes over the Busch legacy and the torch passing from father to son.
UPDATE:
I am part way into the book and it is telling that the beer itself is rarely talked about. A lot about Busch 3 and 4 and their conversions to adulthood and the damn Bud frogs have made an appearance but as I have told too many people to count. AB is a selling company, not a beer company.
A little beer funny…
…from the extremely hillarious Onion
Click the image to be able read the dig at the industrial water lager makers.
a mysterious IPA
A brewery that I had not heard of before is making quite the interwebs buzz. Buzzards Bay from Massachussetts has created a serialized beer with a mystery on the label.
““The Case of the IPA” is a hard-boiled detective farce printed chapter by chapter on 12 bottles of a newly released India Pale Ale. Each 22 ounce bottle not only has 22 ounces of brilliantly deduced IPA, but also 1 of the 12 chapters of the story. Each case has 12 bottles, which makes for the entire tale told in a case. And so, the Case of the IPA is indeed a case of the IPA.
Brewer Harry Smith proposed the idea to author Paul Goodchild and they quickly agreed on a format: a noir-ish detective serial. Smith brewed up a batch of hoppy craft brew whilst Goodchild penned the story. It’s a mystery of zany brewers and their intrigues; sure to tickle the ribs and please the belly of any fan of craft beer.”
And here is the first installment (not the beer, the mystery):
