Today’s infographic is a Home Brewing Calendar listing the best months to brew certain types of beer. It was created and may be purchased or downloaded at HomeBrewing.com.
Click here to see the calendar full size.
Beer In Ads #801: Celebrate the Year of the Snake
Monday’s ad is for Tsingtao, but it’s not an old one, but instead is from this year, as the Chinese New Year began yesterday. This year is the Year of the Snake, and that’s what this ad is all about. Happy New Year.
US News & World Report on the Hopslam Between Big & Small Breweries
If you haven’t seen it yet, U.S. News & World Reports had an interesting read entitled Hopslam: How Big Beer Is Trying to Stop a Craft Beer Revolution, and subtitled “The blocked merger between Modelo and Anheuser-Busch shines a light on the long-brewing fight between big beer and craft brewers.” It’s a long piece, but worth it for pulling together a number of threads that have been pulling together lately.
Another kind of Hopslam.
SF Beer Week Opening Event 2013 Video
Each year, videographer Steve Atkinson has done a video of the opening celebration for SF Beer Week. There’s a lot of fun interviews, though I confess I’m slurring my words a bit in my short ramble about the beer scene 25 years ago. Enjoy.
Weyermann Specialty Malts
Today’s infographic is from Weyermann Specialty Malt, which is located in Bamberg, Germany. If you get a chance to visit them, jump at the chance. This poster shows the production steps for malting and the spectrum of colors in malted grains.
Click here to see the poster full size.
Home Brewer’s Formulary
Today’s infographic is a Home Brewer’s Formulary, showing many of the calculations and formulas used in homebrewing. It was apparently created by a homebrewer, but was unabale for a time. It now appears to be back and can be purchased at the Home Brewer’s Formulary website.
Here you can get a very large version of the poster, of this even larger huge version.
Bistro Double IPA Winners 2013
Societe‘s The Roustabout was chosen best in show at the 13th annual Double IPA Festival today at the Bistro in Hayward, California. The full winner’s list is below.
- 1st Place: The Roustabout, Societe Brewing
- 2nd Place: Double Jack, Firestone Walker Brewing
- 3rd Place: Pliny the Elder, Russian River Brewing
And for the second year, Triple IPAs were judged this year.
- 1st Place: Pliny the Younger, Russian River Brewing
- 2nd Place: Notorious Triple IPA, The Boneyard
- 3rd Place: Simtra Triple IPA, Knee Deep Brewing
And for the third straight year:
- People’s Choice Award: Kern River Citra Double IPA
Congratulations to all the winners.
The Very, Very Many Varieties Of Beer
Today’s infographic shows the Very, Very Many Varieties of Beer, created by Pop Chart Lab. For $32, you can buy yourself a copy of this infographic.
SF Beer Week Opening Celebration 2013
It’s hard to believe this is our fifth SF Beer Week. Things seemed to go off without a hitch last night at the Concourse Exhibition Center and it was another great kick-off to over 500 events that will follow this week. I spent most of my time drinking and talking to old friends and meeting new ones, but did snap a few photos along the way.
The calm before the storm, about an hour before the SF Beer Week Opening Celebration began last night.
Alex from Uncommon Brewers.
Natalie Cilurzo (from Russian River) and Dave Keene (from the Toronado).
Jay and the crew from Pine Street Brewery.
Angelo Roselle with Geno Acevedo from El Toro Brewing. Angelo’s on a mission to drink every beer in the book I contributed to, 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die, and Geno’s Oatmeal Stout was one of the beers that I wrote up for the book.
The Concourse Exhibition Hall with the celebration in full swing.
John Martin, me and Peter Hoey.
Rodger Davis (now from Faction Brewing) with Gabbi mugging for the camera in the background.
I finally had a chance to try the beer we made at Beer Camp in December. Our Celebrator 25th Anniversary Double Pale Ale is tasting better than I ever could have hoped. It should be appearing at bars and festivals throughout the week, so keep an eye out for it.
Tom Dalldorf (from the Celebrator) and Dave Keene (from the Toronado).
Beer In Ads #800: The Thirsty Soul’s Most Welcome Sight
Friday’s ad is for Barclay’s Lager, probably from around the 1930s. It’s another scraperboard illustration, and I love the poetic ad copy: “The Thirsty Soul’s Most Welcome Sight, Barclay’s Lager — Dark or Light.” And then there’s this bit of wisdom from the bottom of the ad, extolling Barclay’s Lager as “the drink for every kind of thirst.” Now that’s got me wondering about how many different kinds of thirst are there? Is there is list? Is it ranked by degrees of thirstiness? I need to know.
