August 2006

Five Reasons to Keep Drinking Beer

August 26, 2006

The Metro, San Jose’s alternative weekly might not be exactly mainstream, but when I lived in the area the years ago, it was a pretty good paper. This week’s edition features a short little column listing five recently discovered health benefits associated with drinking alcohol in moderation. These included a healthier heart, lungs, bone density, [...]

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Anhesuer-Busch Takes Over Marketing & Sales of Kirin

August 26, 2006

Anheuser-Busch and Japan’s Kirin Brewery annnounced today that their alliance will be enlarged to include marketing and sales of Kirin beers in the United States. Currently, A-B contract brews all Kirin beers for the domestic market at its Los Angeles brewery. That relationship began ten years ago and included distribution, as well, through A-B’s network [...]

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Chateau Jiahu from Dogfish Head

August 25, 2006

There’s another new beer coming out from Dogfish Head. Sam Calagione’s latest creation is Chateau Jiahu, which is based on an ancient beverage discovered in a pottery jar “in the Neolithic villiage of Jiahu, in Henan province, Northern China.” Approximately 9,000 years old, the concoction was a fermented drink made with rice, honey and fruit. [...]

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America’s Drunkest Cities! America’s Dumbest Survey?

August 25, 2006

Forbes.com, the online part of the conservative financial organization, announced recently their list of the nation’s “drunkest cities.” Here’s the full list: Milwaukee Minneapolis-St. Paul Columbus, Ohio Boston Austin, Texas Chicago Cleveland Pittsburgh Tie: Philadelphia Providence, R.I. St. Louis San Antonio Seattle Las Vegas Denver/Boulder Tie: Cincinnati Kansas City Houston Portland, Oregon Tie: San Francisco-Oakland [...]

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A Little California Brewing History

August 24, 2006

Yesterday I took the kids to the California State Railroad Museum, which is in Sacramento. My son Porter is obsessed with trains and he’d been wanting to go there since he’d seen it in one of the many train videos he watches over and over again. We had lunch in a converted train depot across [...]

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Grupo Modelo to Distribute Tsingtao in Mexico

August 22, 2006

Grupo Modelo, the Mexican brewer who is most famous for making Corona, announced late last week that by the end of the year they will distribute the Chinese beer Tsingtao exclusively throughout Mexico. Curiously, Anheuser-Busch, who owns half of Modelo (though I understand it’s non-voting stock) also has a 27% stake in the Tsingtao Brewery. [...]

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Denver Beer Dinner Announced

August 22, 2006

Great Divide Brewing, Oskar Blues Brewery and Duo Restaurant, have an announced two beer dinners to be held at the restaurant in Denver, Colorado on Wednesday, September 13, the first at 6:30 p.m. and the second at 8:30 p.m. The dinner will be four courses paired with 4 Colorado beers. The cost is $35 per [...]

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The Budweiser Film Studio?

August 22, 2006

According to Advertising Age — and they should know — Anhesuer-Busch is creating a new film and TV production division within the company to create original content. Initially at least the new programs will be primarily “humorous shorts and sitcom-type programs to be broadcast over the Internet and to cellphones, according to four people familiar [...]

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Craft Beer Up 11% for First Half of 2006!

August 21, 2006

It’s been exactly ten years since the craft beer industry has seen double-digit growth. Back in the heady days of 1996 it seemed like a new brewery was opening every week. But that came to a screeching halt and things calmed down, the media turned its attention to the next big thing, and brewers got [...]

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Organic Beer in Texas

August 21, 2006

There was as interesting overview of the obstacles of buying, selling and making organic beer in the Star-Telegram last week. The article had a special emphasis on its market in Texas, but also had a decent amount of general information.

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Russian River Beer Revival & BBQ Cook-Off

August 21, 2006

Saturday I took the whole family to the Russian River Beer Revival & BBQ Cook-Off in Guerneville, California. It was held at Stumptown Brewery at a perfect location right along the river. I’m doing a story about the festival and the brewery for the next issue of the Celebrator Beer News, but in the meantime [...]

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Your Beer Personality

August 20, 2006

I enjoy personality quizzes, actually quizzes of almost any kind, so I’m not necessarily predisposed to find fault with them. But this one is another story. There’s a website called Blogthings that has literally almost 300 quizzes for people to use on their blogs, presuambly to spice them up with something fun. Most are five [...]

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Chugging Contests to Promote Brewfest

August 20, 2006

A few weeks ago I opined that the upcoming movie Brewfest was going to do nothing good for the good beer movement, and might even cause further harm to beer’s already beleaguered image. I even argued that position on a recent interview on the Brewing Network. Even though I’ve not seen the movie, everything I [...]

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Beer Only Fit for Guzzling

August 18, 2006

I realize that the Ventura County Reporter isn’t exactly mainstream media, but they’re in print and people believe what they read in print, so they’re fair game as far as I’m concerned, especially when they wear their ignorance on their sleeve. A regular column in the alternative weekly, called Body Politics, is written by Robert [...]

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The Pour’s the Thing

August 17, 2006

No one in his right mind would argue that it’s better to drink beer directly from the bottle or can, yet thousands — perhaps millions — of people do that every single day. So getting people to first pour their beer into some type of vessel, preferrably a glass one, is job one. The advantages [...]

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Don’t Shun the “Tion” Dinner

August 16, 2006

Beer Chef Bruce Paton’s next beer dinner has been announced, and it should be another great one. Dubbed the Tion Dinner, because it will feature Damnation, Temptation, Supplication, Salvation and Redemption from Russian River Brewing, it will be a four-course dinner and well worth the $80 price of admission. It will be held at the [...]

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