The worldwide glut of wine has become so huge that for the first time in history, France is distilling some of its higher-rated wines into fuel. France has periodically turned oceans of lowly table wines into vinegar and ethanol. But bottles of quality French wine have been piling up on supermarket shelves and in vineyard […]
Food & Wine magazine hands out its “Tastemaker Awards” in the November issue. These go to “Top young talents who’ve changed the world of food and wine by age 35″ and include Fredrick Bensch and Kevin McNerney of Sweetwater Brewing in Atlanta, Georgia.
The magazine tags them “Iconclast Brewers” and quotes Bensch on a simple distribution […]
Brü, one of two brewpubs in Rochester, N.Y., has closed its doors - failing where Empire Brewing failed before. Fashun Ku, the city’s commissioner of economic development, told the local newspaper that microbreweries are a tough business because they are no longer en vogue.
“It’s not necessarily sad; consumer’s demands changed. People like to have chicken […]
This year’s GABF attendees had an opportunity to sample a “mystery beer” from the Brewers Association, then were asked to determine which of six basic styles the beer fell into. Nearly 1,400 consumers participated in the mystery beer program during the four sessions of the festival. On average, they correctly identified the style being poured […]
Perhaps it is the years I spent as a copy editor, but I am alternately galled and amused by how often the word “irony” is misused. It does not mean coincidental or improbable, though that’s often the synomym people are looking for.
According to dictionary.com it means, “The use of words to express something different […]
The Brewers Assocation has posted plenty of numbers about the Great American Beer Festival along with all the results.
Here are a few more:
75 - The number of entries in Wood- and Barrel-aged beers, in a category that didn’t exist before 2003. New Glarus Brewing has won gold two years in a row, with different beers, […]
Only a couple of hours after awards were handed out at the 2005 Great American Beer Festival I was with a friend who received an outraged phone call from somebody I don’t know. The gist was that the results must have been rigged because all of the medals Anheuser-Busch, Miller, Pabst (brewed by Miller) and […]
