Category: Beers
College Beer Playoffs
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CraftBeer.com started what I hope will be a grand tradition: a college craft beer playoff. I examined the top ten college football teams according to five beer-related areas: Number of craft breweries 2015 Grea...
Ben & Jerry are making a beer? What?!
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No I'm not kidding. Yes, that Ben & Jerry. The ice cream and beer giants continue to finalize plans for the beer, but we know it will be a sweet, cocoa-laced brew available this fall. And according to a relea...
Jim Koch’s bonus structure makes no sense
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Jim Koch (of Sam Adams fame) is truly wealthy these days, but his bonus reflects a more humble business approach. BusinessWeek has the full break-down. But the bonus formula devised by the company’s board rewards Ko...
A bottle that plays music?
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Check out this mind-blowing video of a beer bottle etched with playable music, just like a vinyl record (or more precisely, an Edison cylinder).
First Beer of the Weekend – 5/1/2015
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Today's Required-Unwinder is "The Calling" DIPA from Boulevard. Got this in the growler at our local filling station. It pours a bit more orange than last week's offering, but still well within the standard IPA sp...
Freshness: front and center
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Vinepair has an excellent article covering all the issues that surround beer freshness--which despite a growth in interest for aged beers, is still a damned important factor for almost every style. There’s some disag...
America’s First Trappist
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According to the International Trappist Association (who gets to decide such things), Spencer Brewing operating out of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, MA has an official Trappist product. The beer is blond with 6.5% a...
Are beers getting generally crappier?
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Michael Agnew at GrowlerMag seems to think so. I’m talking about beer with real, quantifiable flaws. I mean seriously under-attenuated beers that taste like wort. Diacetyl-laden butter bombs. Flat-tasting beers with ...
Hanson has a beer now.
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Sorry guys. Beer is over. It had a good run for a few thousand years but it's done now. It jumped the shark for sure. Hanson has their own beer. The MmmHops beer concept that the band revealed back in November ...
Stone coming to Alabama
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Pardon the interruption for a little local self-indulgence. Stone is finally coming to Alabama, just 5 short LONG years after the first Free The Hops bill reformed the beer laws in the state. A team of Sto...