February 2008

The Perfect Valentine’s Day Pair

by Luke

When you think of Valentine’s Day, what comes to mind? Roses; chocolate; diamonds; Hallmark; sappy love songs? Of course. But Beer? No? Well, it should! As “The Beer Goddess” Stacey Faba — owner of Pauly’s Specialty Bottle Shop in Lowell — Michigan explains, “Jolly Pumpkin Brewery’s brown ale with its cocoa and spices is fantastic [...]

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Harpoon Firth of Fourth: With Love From Scotland

by Luke

Scottish brewer Steve Stewart visited the Harpoon Brewery in Boston Massachusetts yesterday to celebrate (and bottle) the completion of a beer he helped brew from more than 3,000 miles away. That beer is the 22nd installment of Harpoon’s famous 100 Barrel Series and is graciously named “Steve Stewart’s Firth of Forth Ale”. According to BostonNOW.com, [...]

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Who Drinks the Most Beer?

by Luke

A good friend pointed this wikipedia entry out to me this morning – a list of the top countries by beer consumption in the world. I’m not sure which surprised me more – that countries like Mexico and Brazil ranked so low, or that countries like Austria, Slovenia, and Slovakia ranked higher even than the [...]

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Allagash Brews Spontaneously Fermented Beer

by Luke

Anyone who is familiar with the Allagash Brewing Co. here in Portland, Maine knows their quirky (or extreme, or adventurous, or whatever you’d like to call it) tendencies and quirkier brews. Well, now they’re taking that experimental habit one step further – last month Allagash brewed a 100% spontaneously fermented beer in the tradition of [...]

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The OTHER Beer

by Luke

This post was guest written by Wren Schultz from Blog du Wren. Back in the colonial days, when a diverse range of beverages was hard to come by and people had that pre-”DIY” do it yourself spirit, root beer was invented. Okay, well maybe not “invented” per say, because there have been beveragey-challenged cultures with [...]

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Sarget Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Beer

by Luke

This year marks Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year in the U.K. To celebrate, Cains Beer –based in Toxteth, Liverpool — plans to produce 250,000 bottles of their Best of British Lager featuring a Union Jack with the signature of artist Sir Peter Blake. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, another one of his works [...]

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