Yesterday we pointed out how us beer drinkers can influence what our beer choices are. Here’s an even clearer example. Consumers in North Carolina are celebrating this week because of a grass-roots campaign called “Pop the Cap” helped raise the alcohol limit on beer from 6% to 15%.
It took less than three years. Sounds […]
Barefoot wife brews beer to make ends meet: The story of a woman in Botswana who brews a traditional beer, sekhokho, using sorghum. “I will die a brewer because this is my inheritance that I will not shy away from it,” she says.
The woe is the future of beer sales stories continue to roll in. Over the weekend, Investors Business Daily published a story that asked “Can brewers make America thirst for beer again?” Today the New York Times has one with the headline: “Frothier Than Ever: The Tall Cold One Bows to the Stylish One.”
The nut […]
Steven Frank and Arnold Meltzer test various shaped beer glasses to see which best flatters their beer. The experimented drinking two beers, Pilsner Urquell and Dominion Millennium barleywine (from Old Dominion in Virginia), in four different glasses: flute, snifter, tulip shape and bar shaker:
The flute glass truly showed the pilsner color, provided a long-lasting […]
The Wall Street Journal’s wine columnists are on vacation this week, so Travels with Barley author Ken Wells filled in by conducting a blind tasting of lagers. He writes:
I decided to organize a lager tasting, in part to answer a burning question I’ve long had: Could a group of beer drinkers of average sophistication, met […]
The headlines are scary:
BELGIAN MONKS RUN OUT OF THE WORLD’S BEST BEER
MORE BEER? NOT A PRAYER!
But the monks at the abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren in Belgium still offer their coveted beer for sale at the inn across from their abbey. I apologize for whispering like an insider, but I was in the brewery […]
Attention neo-prohibitionists: There’s work for you to be done in Japan. Not only is the product called Kidsbeer but the slogan is “Even kids cannot stand life unless they have a drink.”
