But on the other side …. it didn’t say nothin! Now that side was made for you and me! *********** No Where in the Beer World? this week. I figured still another Texas brewery would be overkill. But I did want to share this photo taken in Big Bend National Park. The sign caused us [...]

Short enough to Twitter, but in Big Bend National Park off the grid means not only no electricity or Internet via wi-fi but also no cell phone service. So a day late . . . Great triple pairing – a hike in Big Bend National Park, Saint Arnold Summer Pils and Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s voice [...]

Oskar Blues Brewery, those can beer guys, have struck a deal with PASTE magazine to offer free music downloads. And what in this blog’s Mission Statement would cause me to mention that here? Not just that I like some of the musicians whose work is available this month (the list includes Harlem Shakes and The [...]

Saw “Beer Wars Live” in San Antonio last with plans to provide at least a few comments when I got home. But it was an evening that resulted in a variety of discussions about beer, and not a whole lot about the movie, and went rather late. I counted about 80 people in the theater, [...]

- Will I be able to see the movie? It’s sold out in Boston. (Showing in one theater in Boston, but three in San Antonio. Who’s in charge of booking?) – Alan doesn’t “give a rats ass.” – Will it crack Jay’s Top 10 Beer Movies? – Can Charlie Papazian make it to Los Angeles [...]

Back to Ron Pattinson’s suggestion that we shouldn’t expect pale lagers to dominate the world for another 100 years. That Anheuser-Busch InBev may be shopping the Rolling Rock brand brings to light this fascinating fact: Between 2003 and last year, Rolling Rock production fell by 45.7 percent to 475,000 barrels. Dang, that’s taking a lesson [...]

Do you think you know where in the beer world this photo was taken? Please leave your answer as a comment. I’ll be up front and tell you I posted this picture just because I think it is pretty. I can see why many of the brewers I know get excited about copper vessels.

The St. Louis Business Journal has the scoop on what a bunch of men until recently employed by Anheuser-Busch are up to. Five months after Belgium-based InBev completed its acquisition of Anheuser-Busch Cos., former senior and mid-evel brewery executives are launching new companies, teaching at universities around the world and taking their skills to other [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports that Anheuser-Busch InBev NV is exploring the sale of the Rolling Rock brand. You may recall that InBev sold the Rolling Rock brand to A-B in 2006, only to end up owning it again after buying A-B last year. One possible suitor could be North American Breweries Inc., owned by [...]

So I was looking for this quote from Fred Eckhardt: “Winemakers are so serious. Beermakers are frivolous.” Which sent me into my archives — deep, this one was stored on a portable drive and in a version of Microsoft Word old enough I had to “import” the story. Once I’d gone to that trouble I [...]