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Great articles that you should read.
The sharp eyed among you may have noticed another favorite link over their in the right sidebar.
It is for a Randy Clemens who has some great thoughts on beer and wine and food that you can read on his SITE or in various food magazines like Imbibe and Beer Advocate. I always learn something after reading one of his pieces.
Here is the question for Session # 35 hosted by the beer savvy Naked Pint authors, Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune, New Beer’s Resolutions.
“So we want to know what was your best and worst of beer for 2009? What beer mistakes did you make? What beer resolutions do you have for 2010? What are your beer regrets and embarrassing moments? What are you hoping to change about your beer experience in 2010?”
Here is my addition….
Best Beer of 2009 – Mikkeller Nelson Sauvin. It had a wonderful grape flavor that matched beautifully with the slight bitterness. Great cereal taste and all well balanced.
Worst Beer of 2009 – Budweiser American Ale. This was an amber that had been severely watered down. Almost as if they tasted it and thought it was too strong and just started dumping buckets of water into it.
2009 Beer Mistake – Tasting Utopias from Sam Adams at the Denver Rare Beer Event halfway through. Everything else that day tasted of bourbon and alcohol.
2010 Beer Resolution – To taste a beer from each and every state in the United States. I certainly hope there are beers from each 50 then I have to somehow get my hands on them.
2009 Beer Regrets – I regret each time someone offers me a taste of their beer and I said no, just because I either had a beer from that brewery that I didn’t enjoy or because it was an imperial aged monster. I need to continue to be more receptive to all kinds of beer.
2010 will be the year that I stop and enjoy each beer and give it it’s time in the sun.
Appellation Beer is yet another really cool beer site. I especially love the “rules” and the book reviews which you normally don’t see on beer sites.
Plus if it’s liked by Eric Asimov at the NY Times, it has to be good.
HERE is another great beer information spot for you to add to your brew reading list. Good posts on beer communication and Nano Brewing as well as videos of great beers.
I just bought Pete Brown’s book and then I saw this article (filled with beer ads) about the marketing side of beer.
Very eye opening and a little disheartening. But then I thought of all the great beer under the radar (adwise) and was re-heartened.
Finally we are getting some love from the L.A. Times. Too few and far between for my tastes but check out this ARTICLE.
(I posted my quick review of Stout a day ahead of the times. I SCOOPED them!)
more expensive beer news from Draft Magazine
“Seventy-two years ago, the Hindenberg airship went down in flames, killing 38 people, injuring another 60, and destroying all the beer on board. Or so we thought…
On Saturday, auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son will sell off one bottle of Lowenbrau found by firefighter Leroy Smith at the scene of the accident. Smith’s niece now owns the beer, which is expected to fetch a shade under $9,000. Assuming it reaches the price, it will become the most expensive bottle of beer ever sold. Actually, since a $400 bottle of limited edition Carlsberg currently holds the record, we’re pretty certain the Lowenbrau will exceed that amount.”
“But the enemy of good beer and good wine, and good food in general, is bad beer, bad wine and, yes, bad food.
What unites this team is the striving for real wine, real beer, and real food, as opposed to cynical product. That is the problem, and I think most people realize this no matter what they say or do. Craft beer’s battle is not against wine but against decades of cynical marketing from the giant breweries, which have done everything possible to portray beer drinkers as asinine fools. The enemy of good wine is the atrocious marketing that makes wine an aspirational commodity, just another luxury good to purchase for its status value. That has to offend the reverse snob in all of us.”
Eric Asimov
You should check out the print edition (I know…I know. I’m old fashioned) because there are some cool articles on Hair of the Dog, English IPA’s and Crafstman Brewing.
or you can see what the beer geeks are ranting about HERE
…it’s Thursday, so go check out FoodGPS for my latest column and let me know what you think.