Love Beer
John reports on going to the Craft Brewers Festival held in San Diego. The CBC is held in different places around the country once a year. Brewers from all of the world attend. During the week there are talks about beer, sessions about beer, judging beer and of course drinking beer. As there are lots [...]
Boonville
Twelfth Annual Legendary Boonville Beer Festival
Date: May 10, 2008
Times: Taps open from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Music until 6:00 p.m.
Place:
Mendocino County Fairgrounds
14400 Hwy 128; Boonville, CA
get tickets online and save.
75 years of Beer
show notes go here.
Hop Crisis
A “perfect storm” has caused the price of hops to sky rocket. Many things factor into to making this happen: bad crop yields, increased consumption in other countries, and hop farms going away. It doesn’t help that just a few years ago hop prices were so low that there wasn’t incentive to keep growing them. [...]
Weird
Beer can be made from all kinds of different things like Lemons, Tomatoes, Oysters, Apples, Myrrh, Ginger, and Chili Peppers. Think of it as hanging out with your odd cousin. Sometimes weird is nothing more than an interesting label.
Links:
The Guerneville video.
Burrito Tunnel doesn’t go south or north.
Motor’s favorite rockstar.
America the Beautiful by Moon Unit.
Homework: [...]
Hop Rhizome Festival
The beginning of the year means the arrival of hop rhizomes. These are the beginning roots of a hop plant which grows as a vine up to 25 feet during the season. A rhizome is genetically identical to the plant it came from. At the end of the season the plant will die but the [...]
Bay Area’s 5th Annual Firkin Gravity Festival
Bay Area’s 5th Annual Firkin Gravity Festival begins Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 11am, and is presented by Triple Rock Brewery & Alehouse in Berkeley, CA.
Admission price is $20.00 which includes a logo glass and 5 tasting tickets; plus a wooden token for a full pour. There will be additional tasting tickets for a nominal [...]
Stout
Imperial Irish Coffee Chocolate Milk Oatmeal Oyster Stout
Stout is a very old style of beer. It’s been around since 1700’s at least. The style has always been loved but it’s not always been popular. The running joke is “want a knife and fork to go with your beer” is unfounded. Stout, while thick and creamy, [...]
Imperial Irish Coffee Chocolate Milk Oatmeal Oyster Stout [130:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (452)
Imperial Irish Coffee Chocolate Milk Oatmeal Oyster Stout [130:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (452)Microbrewery segment grew 21% in 2007
While it looks like a big win, there is actually some bad news here. That is brewpubs and micros closing for whatever reason. Comparing 2007 with 2006 there were 12 less brewpub and micro breweries closures which is 40 versus 52. Added up that means that 90 places closed in the last two years. On [...]
Touring Belgium
Instead of a vacation to the surfing safari or snow riding in the mountains consider something different: a vacation to beer. Not just any beer but Belgium beer right from the country itself. Think the ultimate beer run. There are 500 different varieties of beer made by 100 different breweries.
Stu Stuart from Belgium Beer [...]
