This is a really cool website to learn about the cutting edge of beer. Dave reviews all sorts of beers and has an extensive list of beers he is willing to trade. Check out his site HERE to learn about his take on Stone Juxtaposition (amongst other beers).
Top 50 beers according to…
..Roger Protz
Pete Brown
Zak Avery
Jeff Evans
Click HERE for the slideshow.
It’s a Euro-Centric list. Strong on Hook Norton (which is fine) but includes Guinness and Sam Adams. Sure to cause controversy.
Another Halloween scare
“Candles aren’t just for gals, you know. Guys will love the fresh brewery fragrance that smells just like a cold one. Full scent concentration used throughout, so the candle smells just as good each time you burn it.”
$16.98.
Community + Beer =
…even better beer! One of my favorite beer websites is Thank Heaven for Beer. They have great reviews every Saturday that personally help me evaluate beers better. But they also go the extra mile to create a community of like minded beer lovers, click HERE to read part 1 of their shout outs to great beer websites.
Hops and Glory
Just received this book from Amazon Canada…..
I will have a review when I have finished it. Sounds like a great history of the IPA.
Fresh Hop article
It has been posted already but I wanted to make sure this nice little article got some more air time because it is a great example of how craft beer is much more in touch with its ingredients and suppliers.
Click HERE to read it.
Beer and Haute Cuisine
I was reading the NY Times when I ran across the restaurant review for….
DBGB Kitchen and Bar
★★
Food looks good, exotic and pricey but what caught my eye was the wine recommendation. Scroll down to see for yourself.
299 Bowery (Houston Street),
East Village; (212) 933-5300.
ATMOSPHERE An open, vaguely industrial space combines the elegance of polished concrete, large mirrors and soft leather booths with the simple beauty of stacked boxes of restaurant supplies.
SOUND LEVEL Given all the stone and wire and glass, lower than you’d think.
RECOMMENDED DISHES Appetizers: blood sausage; crispy tripe; veal tongues; iceberg salad; matzo-ball soup; more sausages. Main courses: Arctic char; lamb duo; more sausages.
WINE LIST Totally acceptable selection, but much better to experiment among the 23 beers on tap and large selection of bottled beers that have traveled here from Britain, from Brooklyn, from Germany, from France.
Looks like beer is being mentioned as a better pairing.
1,525 and counting
According to the Brewers Association…
“At a time when many of the giant beer brands are declining, small and independent craft brewers are organically growing their share and slowly gaining shelf and restaurant menu space one glass of craft beer at a time.”
Funny beer news to start your week
from the Associated Press…
Heineken cracks down on tiny Swiss “Keineken”
AMSTERDAM — Swiss police have seized 1,000 bottles of locally made “Keineken” beer after the Dutch beer giant Heineken NV complained its brand was being infringed.
The name “Keineken” appears to be a pun in German meaning “No Heineken.”
Heineken spokesman Jeroen Breuer said Tuesday a judge in the Swiss canton of Obwalden ordered police to seize the brew after agreeing Keineken infringed the Heineken brand.
Breuer said Heineken doesn’t consider the size of its opponents when its brand is being misused.
“Whether the name is a joke or a way of getting publicity — those are questions for them to answer,” he said.
A note on Keineken’s Web site complains that foreign companies have “swallowed” all Switzerland’s independent brewers.
“Our name says it all: Keineken.”
Beer distribution
If you haven’t picked up the September issue of All About Beer, do it now. There is a great article about trying to figure out the Byzantine world of getting beer to the people. There is also a section on crazy beer laws which is hillarious.