Flying Dog Brewery’s Old Scratch Amber Lager is, like most of Flying Dog’s brews, a little out of the ordinary. As the name suggests, sort of a hybrid amber ale/lager. It is fermented at medium temperatures to develop both ale and lager characteristics.
This unusual beer has won several awards including the Silver Medal in [...]

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…and the city. Moosehead Breweries commissioned a survey of 500 men and asked if they planned on attending the premiere of the Sex and the City movie. Most said they would be drinking a beer while watching the hockey playoffs. (Maybe they surveyed Canadian men.) In fact, more men would rather walk the dog than [...]

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Sky News reports, Sapporo is developing beer for space. It is using third generation barley grains grown at the International Space Station for the brew and barley was chosen to grow in space for it’s nutritional value. Now this is science! It is good to know that when we make first contact with an alien [...]

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If you have not heard InBev brewers of Stella Artois and Beck’s are contemplating a $46 billion takeover of Anheuser-Busch. More than just Bud and Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch has over 100 brands (See list) To try and stop the take over Anheuser-Busch is trying to get 50% of Modelo, which makes Corona, to make itself [...]

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I came across this article a while back about a guy who has created a contraption that can turn stale beer and other sugar-containing substances into ethanol. It reminded me of the Professor’s garbage-powered DeLorean from Back to the Future but not nearly as cool.
The inventor hopes to sell his “E-Fuel 100 MicroFueler” home ethanol [...]

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Today we taste Blue Moon

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Americans are expected to spend $381 million for 21 million cases of beer in major supermarkets in the 2 weeks surrounding Memorial Day according to Nielson Research. It is the second biggest beer-buying holiday with July 4th being number one.
While this is an interesting statistic, I [...]

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Lang Creek Brewery, which is housed in a converted aircraft hangar, is located in Marion, Montana holds the distinction of being the most remote brewery in the US. Lang Creek beer is only available in the Northwest at the moment but they seem to be expanding. It was founded in 1993 by pilot John [...]

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File this one under Rants.
I came across an article with a provocative headline: Body builder alert: beer degrades muscles. “Oh no!” I thought. “My favorite libation could be causing me to turn into a flabby old man prematurely.” No doubt this is exactly what the author wanted me to think when I read the headline. [...]

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I have written before about the world-wide shortage of hops (and malts) that is causing the price of beer to go up. Now it seems the next logical step is already taking place: breweries are having to change their beer recipes to use less hops.
Here’s the root of the problem:
The bulk of U.S.-grown hops [...]

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