A Shaky Market for Hops Challenges Brewers

This article is a couple of months old, but it still worth posting because of its relevance to the current climate in the brewing industry. It talks about the hop “crisis”, and what brewers are doing about it.
Soaring hop prices are also cutting into brewers’ profits. “Hops are easily up 20 percent over last [...]

Flying Dog – Craft Beer and the Holidays

This press release was just sent out by Flying Dog Ales in Denver, CO. It’s a guide to holiday food pairings with craft beer, and contains a link to Beer and Turkey for more pairings. The following excerpt is from the press release:
Caramelized and toasted grain flavors in many beers complement the flavors [...]

Must be a good sign

Interesting article about the movement of the large brewers trying to capture some of the craft beer segment.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119335845004872313.html?mod=todays_us_nonsub_marketplace

Brewer in Dispute With Real Sam Adams

This is one of those times that you’re better off researching before shooting from the hip. We’ve all done it before… Spoke before our brain has finished computing. BUT.. Even negative press can help a mayoral campaign. Can you believe that someone actually poured beer into a toilet?
Enjoy!!
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2Beerguys to Host 1st annual beer challenge

Anyone up for the challenge?
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Well, you don’t see something like this every day
Wed Oct 24, 11:30 AM ET
CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Australian barmaid has been fined for crushing beer cans between her bare breasts while an off-duty colleague has been fined for hanging spoons from her friend’s nipples, police said [...]

Elephants electrocuted in drunken rampage

They had found rice beer in Indian village; incident reflects loss of habitatAssociated PressUpdated: 8:47 a.m. ET Oct 23, 2007
GAUHATI, India – Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India’s remote northeast, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
Nearly 40 elephants came to a village on Friday looking for [...]

Hops price hike brewing up a crisis

By Tracey Rauh Solomon , Staff writerEagle-Tribune
HAVERHILL – Sean Corcoran and Adam St. Jean don’t mind paying $4 for a pint of beer at The Tap in Haverhill.
But if the price were to go up to $4.50 or $5, would they still be willing to sit at the bar and sip their favorite specialty beverage?
“I [...]

Grain: The new gold – Bakers, brewers hit hard by skyrocketing wheat prices – EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

By Bill Kirk, Business EditorEagle-Tribune
Brewer David Wilson stood in the basement of The Tap on Washington Street in Haverhill as one of his assistants poured a bag of malt – a grain used to make beer – into the noisy milling machine.
He shook his head as he recited the recent price increases for ingredients that [...]

Life Is Far Too Short To Drink Cheap Beer

Beer in the news..
Sean
Life Is Far Too Short To Drink Cheap Beer – 10 Ways To Maximize Your Beer Value
September 14, 2007 By Al at Hop Talk
Editors Note: I wrote a piece on how to save money on beer awhile back and Al chasized me for only considering how to save money and not about [...]

Spam of the week

I just wanted to share the SPAM OF THE WEEK!!! I hope that you enjoy.
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Drink Craft Beer, You’ve Earned It!!
Or else, like us, sunk into some long gazeFor any part of them we can make outIn stone waves and rock waters, far from day,And so I gaze avidlyDreaming time has reversed—and you,Life, or only [...]