December 2008

A Look Back at Beer in ’08 and a Look Ahead to ’09

by Luke

In addition to my own resolutions, at the end of 2007 I also made some predictions for the beer industry as a whole in 2008. And I fared much better with those than I did with my own resolutions. My three predictions were: The price of beer will go up There will be more breweries [...]

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A Look Back at my 2008 New Beer’s Resolutions

by Luke

Exactly one year ago I made some Beer-in-the-New-Year resolutions for 2008 (part 1 & part 2). So, how did I do? Let’s just say that I should be ashamed… Part One was a list of five beers I was hoping to try in 2008. Here’s how I did: St. Bernardus Abt 12 – fail Stone [...]

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Student’s PhD Work Will Save Beer from Spoiling

by Luke

Monique Haakensen, a 26-year-old PhD candidate from the University of Saskatchewan may just be the beer industry’s next savior. As you may or may not know, The University of Saskatchewan is home to one of only two labs in the world that studies beer spoilage — enter Haakensen. According to Montreal’s The West Island Chronicle, [...]

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Twenty of the Best Holiday Beers

by Luke

I sure do love “Top 10″ lists – especially top 10 lists that pertain to beer. So when I found two of them today, I was pretty thrilled. The first, from Denver’s Westword.com, is a list of “10 Holiday Beers to Help you Forget 2008” (don’t we all need that!) compiled by Jonathan Shikes. The [...]

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Happy Holidays from BlogAboutBeer.com

by Luke

Let me start by wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas and a very happy holidays! I’ll do some more “looking back on the year that was” posts next week before New Year’s but for now just the well-wishing. I hope that this holiday you find yourself out of harm’s way, able to put [...]

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Make Your Christmas Merry(er)!

by Luke

The following post is a guest post written by Michael Mulligan. Please note that the opinions in the article are those of Michael’s and not necessarily mine (I don’t feel nearly as strongly about Pumpkin Head, for instance). But I always appreciate guest posts and, if the submitted post is half-way decent, I’m happy to [...]

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