Apologies, but I have to point something else out that bugged me watching Beer Wars. When you left the theater did you think that Moonshot was the only beer laced with caffeine? (Excepting the 849 coffee beers out there; mmmm, Meantime Coffee.) Not true. There’s also MateVeza Yerba Mate gold, and now Yerba Mate IPA. [...]

OK, it’s not the French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley ($240 tasting menu, hard-to-get reservations, $50 corkage fee if you bring your own wine), but French Laundry Café & Market in Fenton, Michigan, has announced it will pour only Michigan beers. In a press release, bartender Jon Foley says the restaurants’s nine handles will offer [...]

There’s the sky, here’s the earth This is the road for all it’s worth It’s a ribbon, it’s a river, it’s a wave It’s an arrow and it’s a snake It’s asleep and it’s awake And it stretches from the cradle to the grave Thank God for the road And the stars that shine above [...]

Am I so out if it a missed the previous announcement and perhaps considerable discussion? Last week Guinness launched its 250th Anniversary Stout in the United States. It’s a “new” stout and certainly is being poured in a new manner. The press release states, “This marks the first new stout offering in the U.S. from [...]

After touring the Pilsner Urquell brewery last November I promised that when I got a chance I’d take a look at Michael Jackson’s video report from 1989 (the Beer Hunter series) to compare what he saw then with what Pilsner Urquell says is how long they’ve “always” lagered beer. I tell you, that’s one great [...]

Let’s say that you drink local beer because you think it is important to support locally produced products and further the environmentally correct thing to do. So there’s every chance you expect the local brewery to use local products itself. But what if it is much cheaper for the contract mobile bottling company — which [...]

It comes to my attention that The Session #27 is Friday and I never pointed to the announcement. Oops. Beer at Joes, operated by Joe and Jasime, will play host and the topic is “Beyond the Black & Tan.” Jasime writes: What’s your favorite beer cocktail (and yes, despite the title of this post, it [...]

OK, time to be cantankerous. One heck of a lot of people in the beer blogging and twittering world have linked to the “I Am a Craft Brewer” video, including (in the interest of full disclosure) me. Looks like love. So who in the beer blogging world is going to slice and dice this puppy [...]

Greg Koch has posted the video he used yesterday to introduce his keynote speech at the Craft Brewers Conference in Boston entitled “Be Remarkable: Collaboration Ethics Camaraderie Passion.” Click on the play button to watch or head on over to the “I Am A Craft Brewer” area at Vimeo, where he promises “a program is [...]

I’m doing my best not to get sucked back into the Beer Wars discussion. But I do want to point you to Harry Schuhmacher’s excellent “alternative view.” In it he mentions the late Henry King. I first met King at Oldenburg Beer Camp in 1996 and was fascinated when he talked about “institutional memory.” Eight [...]