Today’s infographic is from College Humor, so you know it’s just meant to be funny. Is it? I’ll leave that up to you, but it’s an infographic leading you to discover what kind of beer drinker you are.
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Beer Style Periodic Table
Today’s infographic is yet another beer spectrum poster, called the Beer Style Periodic Table by Brew Muse. It’s an interactive page, although each link has not been completed yet.
Click here to go to the interactive page.
Never Drink And Derive
No that’s not a typo. Today’s Friday frivolity is a nice mix of drinking and math. Remember people, don’t try to figure out the quadratic formula while operating heavy machinery. Once you start deriving, it’s hard to stop. I assume this will resonate with the illiterate and math-challenged among the neo-prohibitionists.
Great Brewers Style Guide
Today’s infographic is yet another beer spectrum poster, this one from Great Brewers. This one is done in a wheel format.
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Tiger Woods Hits Hole In One Into Fan’s Beer Cup
It’s now being widely reported, including by Business Insider, that at the Masters at Augusta National earlier today golfer Tiger Woods on the third hole drove his ball into a cup of beer held by someone along the fairway watching the golf tournament. Apparently there’s no picture or video because inexplicably one of golf’s most famous events is not being televised.
Know Your Beer Styles
Today’s infographic is another beer spectrum poster, this one from the Blue Sky Brewery in Cairns, Australia, showing their beers along with some other popular beers along the spectrum.
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Micro-Malting
The publishers of a new online magazine, Modern Farmer, let me know about an interesting article in their latest issue, Meet The Micro-Malts, about the trend of locally grown barley and wheat for brewing. I’ve been hearing more and more from brewers looking for ways to get their ingredients closer to home, and this is certainly one of the first steps in making that more of a reality. We also need more small, regional malting houses, too. I wonder if anybody’s addressing that need?
Beer Balance Value: Bitterness Units To Gravity Units
Today’s infographic is a homebrewing chart showing the balance value of different types of beer based on their bitterness units and their gravity units. It was created by a homebrewer and posted on his own personal homebrewing website.
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The Top 50 Annotated 2012
This is my seventh annual annotated list of the Top 50 so you can see who moved up and down, who was new to the list and who dropped off. So here is this year’s list again annotated with how they changed compared to last year.
- Anheuser-Busch InBev; #1 last seven years, no surprises
- MillerCoors; ditto for #2
- Pabst Brewing; ditto for #3
- D. G. Yuengling and Son; Same as last year
- Boston Beer Co.; Same as last year
- North American Breweries; 3rd year on the list, same position as last year
- Sierra Nevada Brewing; Same as last year
- New Belgium Brewing; Same as last year
- Craft Brewers Alliance; Same as last year
- Gambrinus Company; Same as last year
- Minhas Craft Brewery; Up 3 from #14 last year
- Deschutes Brewery; Down one from #11 last year
- Lagunitas Brewing; Up 3 from #16 last year after jumping up 10 from #26 the previous year, having been at #36 three years back
- Bell’s Brewery; Down 1 from #13 last year
- Matt Brewing; Down 3 from #12 last year
- Harpoon Brewery; Down 1 from #15 last year
- Stone Brewing; Up 1 from #18 last year
- Brooklyn Brewery; Up 2 from #20 last year, after jumping up 5 the year before
- Boulevard Brewing; Down 2 from #17 last year
- Dogfish Head Craft Brewery; Down 1 from last year, after being up 5, 9, 5 and 4 the four previous years
- Abita Brewing; Up 4 from #25 last year
- World Brew/Winery Exchange; Up 4 from #26 last year, after jumping up 11 the previous year
- Shipyard Brewing; Up 1 from last year, having moved up 4 the prior year
- Alaskan Brewing; Down 2 from #21 last year, their second drop in as many years
- August Schell Brewing; Down 2 from last year, also their second drop in as many years
- New Glarus Brewing; Up 2 again this year from #28 last year
- Long Trail Brewing; Down 5 from #22 last year
- Great Lakes Brewing; Down 1 from last year, after jumping up 4 the previous year
- Firestone Walker Brewing; Up 4 from #33 last year, after rising 3 spots the year before
- Anchor Brewing; Up 2 from #32 last year
- Rogue Ales Brewery; Up 5 from #36 last year
- Summit Brewing; Down 1 from #31 last year
- Full Sail Brewing; Down 4 from #29 last year
- SweetWater Brewing; Up 1 from #35 last year, having rise 3 the year before
- Victory Brewing; Up 4 from #39 last year
- Oskar Blues Brewing; Up 5 from #36 last year, having jumped up 8 the previous year
- Pittsburgh Brewing (fka Iron City); Down 7 from #30 last year
- Mendocino Brewing; Down 1 from #37 last year
- Cold Spring Brewing; Down 5 from #34 last year, after jumping up 13 the prior year
- Flying Dog Brewery; Down 2 from #38 last year
- Founders Brewing; Not in Top 50 last year
- Ninkasi Brewing; Up 2 from #44 last year
- CraftWorks Breweries & Restaurants (Gordon Biersch/Rock Bottom); Down 3 from #40 last year, after the two merged during 2011 and were #42 and #48 in the year before the merger
- Odell Brewing; Down 2 from #42 last year
- Bear Republic Brewing; Up 2 in their second year on the list
- Stevens Point Brewery; Down 3 from #43 last year
- Blue Point Brewing; Down 1 from #46 last year
- Southern Tier Brewing; Not in Top 50 last year
- Lost Coast Brewery; Same as last year in their second year on the list
- Karl Strauss Breweries; San Diego CA; Not in Top 50 last year
Not too much movement this year, except for a few small shufflings. Only three new breweries made the list; Founders, Southern Tier and Karl Strauss.
Off the list was BJs Restaurant & Brewery, Narragansett Brewing and Goose Island Beer, which had plummeted 30 from #18 the year before, after selling their production brewery to Anheuser-Busch InBev.
If you want to see the previous annotated lists for comparison, here is 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006.
Pete’s Landscape of Beers
Today’s infographic is the second of three similar charts that Pete Slosberg created for Pete’s Wicked Ales. It also shows popular beer styles (remember this was the late 80s) and where they fell on an x/y axis spectrum, and also includes color along one additional axis. It was one of the first great educational tools for explaining the variation in different beers, something that most people didn’t know anything about back then.
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