beerpulse — Lo and behold; our operating brewery count hit 2,051 as of April 30, 2012. The current count of craft brewers stands exactly at 2,000 and the count of domestic non-craft brewers stands at 51. (These counts are for brick-and-mortar facilities, and does not include contract or alternating proprietorship operations so...
boakandbailey — Boak and Bailey's Beer BlogOur pints of mild on Saturday got us thinking about the experience of drinking a given beer over the course of a session which helped us understand what the term ‘session beer’ means to us. So, this chart is an attempt to illustrate the pleasure we gain...
thebeernut.blogspot — That's my reason for picking up this bottle of Harrington's Big John. The label makes a suspicious comment about it being "brewed with a hint of Bourbon" which doesn't sound too appetising to me, but leaving it on the shelf wasn't an option.It poured quite thickly but with lots of...
beerpulse — Boston Beer Company Chairman, Jim Koch, passed up on a meatball served to him by one of MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-hosts. The co-host mentioned how the “monolithic breweries” were starting to release craft beers under different names to which Koch replied, “Yeah, there is Goose Island, Blue Moon, Shock Top...
beerpulse — (Milwaukee, WI) – Received a note from Tenth and Blake this AM… — The S/V Denis Sullivan, which launched in June 2000, will have some unique cargo aboard as she sails the Great Lakes this summer. The Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company has donated Big Eddy Imperial India Pale Ale (IPA), which will...
barclayperkins.blogspot — Boddie's brewing logs are a bit dull. 90% Bitter, 10% Mild, eff all else. But there's the occasional weird beer hidden amongst them. Like ELM.I was excited when I spotted it. As it's clearly another Mild. But what on earth could the EL stand for? My first guess was Extra...
thefullpint — One of the many reasons to go to a Stone Brewing World Bistro and Gardens Event is to try some of the beers they make that never leave the brewery. At last years Pour it Black and this years Oakquinox many of us locals got to try Stone 12th Anniversary...
boakandbailey — Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog It feels as if St Austell have a pub every ten or twelve metres between Exeter and Land’s End, but their dark mild, Black Prince, is nonetheless hard to find amongst a sea of Tribute. We first heard of Black Prince several years ago when Bailey’s dad...
beerpulse — Press Release: (Chicago, IL) – Phusion Projects, LLC announced the introduction of Moskato Life, a unique malt-based, progressive adult beverage that drinks like a moscato wine, which is currently the third most consumed wine in the U.S. The new product line showcases Phusion’s ability to recognize changing consumer tastes and...
boakandbailey — Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog We couldn’t find much to love in John Smith’s Extra Smooth, and we really did try. Given the uncontroversial recipe, we have to assume the cause of the problem is that widget — that little ping-pong ball which injects nitrogren into the beer on opening to...
beerpulse — (Coors Third Shift Amber Lager) is the first in a series of smaller batch beers that MillerCoors plans to put into the wider market, possibly with marketing featuring the brewing creators — which would follow a selling tactic successfully used by smaller craft brewers. Still, MillerCoors is not describing Third...
barclayperkins.blogspot — Bailey (of Boak and Bailey) has helpfully transformed one of my dull accumulations of numbers into a prettty chart. It's much easier to see the trends in this pictorial form.I've just noticed that the English line looks rather like the side view of a trench. How appropriate, given the trough...
beerpulse — The driver of a beer truck heading north on Interstate 95 this morning just after 4, was forced off the road by another trucker who veered his rig into the beer truck’s lane, resulting in a crash that blocked all four lanes. [...] When the 53-foot trailer flipped, it sent bottles...
thebeernut.blogspot — Behind another gorgeous label from Brasserie De La Senne sits Jambe de Bois, a tripel brewed in honour of Belgium's 1830 revolution. "Graah!" yells the peg-legged old codger astride the cannon. "Aieee!" cry the big-hatted Dutch soldiers beneath. I'm expecting something rather more po-faced from the 1916 centenary beer I...
thebarleyblog — I was first presented with samples of Newcastle Summer Ale back in August of 2010 — so it’s been a good long while since I last drank the beer. According to that review, I was less than impressed. Fast forward to just a week or so ago, when I received...
beerpulse — (Chicago, IL) – It’s Chicago Craft Beer Week. So what better way to celebrate than with the return of Baderbräu Chicago Pilsener, a local brand founded nearly 25 years ago? Here is how the Baderbräu re-birth started according to ChicagoBusiness.com. Noticing that no one had claimed the domain www.baderbrau.com, Mr. Sama...
petebrown.blogspot — Dave Wickett died. Bastard cancer.This award-winning, iconic Sheffield pub would not have existed without WickettWickett gave cancer more than it bargained for. When cancer said, "You've got six months," Wickett replied, "Fuck you," and went off and planned and opened a new brewery, and carried on living life to the...
barclayperkins.blogspot — The Scots have a reputation a bunch of pissheads. Is there any statistical proof? Or is it a terrible slur on their national character?Not sure I have a proper answer to that. What I can say with some certainty is that during WW I they became a more sober bunch....
beerpulse — After months of anticipation and preparation, the Great GoogaMooga is officially underway! And already, Twitter is overflowing with people complaining about epic beers lines, and a broken scanner system. As one colleague mentioned, standing on line is what New Yorkers DO. But there may be an even darker crisis afoot:...
beerpulse — The worker died of injuries sustained on Tuesday morning, April 24, when a plastic keg he was cleaning exploded, striking him in the chest and head, according to officials from the Portsmouth Fire Department. In the wake of the blast, several brewers around New Hampshire were perplexed by the accident,...
barclayperkins.blogspot — We're finally returning to the rest of the article* outlined the filth and grime at Arrol's brewery in Alloa. It doesn't make pleasant reading. I'm glad I didn't have to drink in one of their pubs. The chances of getting uninfected beer sound slightly less than zero.You'll see that they...
boakandbailey — Boak and Bailey's Beer BlogHere are our notes from the first of our 18 cans of John Smith’s Extra Smooth: Surprisingly powerful aroma rising out of the glass. Not of hops but actually quite Guinness-like if we close our eyes – the black malt they use for colour? Very light body...
boakandbailey — Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog John Smith’s bitter is one of those beers which has become a byword for badness amongst beer geeks — the punchline to jokes, a shortcut to suggest the utter hopelessness of a crappy pub. It is available cask-conditioned but is more usually seen as a keg beer...
beerpulse — (Roseland, VA) – A blog post came across the BeerPulse Twitter timeline this morning written by a professor at The University of Virginia. John Edwin Mason argues against the branding of a beer from Devils Backbone Brewing Company [a BeerPulse sponsor] called Belgian Congo Pale Ale. It reads… I’ve been alternating...
appellationbeer — Carla Companion, the Beer Babe, has picked the topic for The Session #64 and it is Pale Ale. Find two of them, drink them, write about them. It’s that simple. The Session has taken many twists and turns since the first one in March of 2007, many of them delightful. But...