December 2008

6 Gifts For the Beer Fan in Your Life

by Luke

The Saint Petersburg Times/Tampabay.com has a list today of six gifts for “the beer nut” on your list this holiday season. The list is made up of: Saranac 12 Beers of Winter Sam Smith’s Winter Welcome Ale Corsendonk Christmas Ale Wychwood Bah Humbug Christmas Ale Rogue Santa’s Private Reserve The Sam Adams Winter Classics Sampler [...]

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Beer on the Discovery Channel This Week

by Luke

On December 18th at 8:00pm, The Discovery Channel’s “How Stuff Works” will air an hour-long feature on the essentials of beer making. The episode will feature footage of Charlie Papazian’s home hop garden, homebrew “garage” beer stash and sampling procedures. As well as Dogfish Head owner Sam Calagione and his perspectives on “how stuff works” [...]

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Shipyard Beer Featured in a Nationally Snydicated Comic Strip

by Luke

While we don’t all have the accent, the Non Sequitur folks were pretty spot-on with the artifacts that represent the greatest accomplishments of human existence: beer & duct tape. But what makes this particular comic strip even more fun is its reference to local favorite Shipyard Ale. Since Non Sequitur is a nationally syndicated strip, [...]

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Interactive Beer & Food Pairing Map

by Luke

If you’ve been here before, you already know I’m a big fan of beer & food pairing, especially with holiday meals. So, needless to say, I was psyched to find this fun little interactive menu from Michigan’s MLive.com today: Winter is the time when Michiganians like to “nest” indoors with our favorite comfort foods, to [...]

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Portland-Based Gritty McDuff’s Celebrates its 21st Birthday With Release of a new IPA

by Luke

Portland, Maine-based Gritty McDuff’s is releasing a new IPA (“Gritty’s 21 IPA”) in celebration of the start of their 21st year of brewing. While the beer is already available in a few supermarkets in the area (and beyond), the real celebration will kick off at the Gritty’s Portland brewpub on December 21st when the brewery [...]

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A Photo Essay of the Most Popular Beers in 116 Countries

by Luke

I certainly don’t want to steal any thunder or enthusiasm away from the awesome photo contest Alan (A Good Beer Blog) and Stonch (Stonch’s Beer Blog) are colaberating on, for sure, but I couldn’t help but point out an gorgeous photo essay the folks at sloshspot have put together (one incredible piece of link bait [...]

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