Did every local television station get the same marching orders this past weekend? Super Bowl: Go find a beer story. In Cleveland it was about Mickie Reinhart, who has come up with seven flavors of “hops drops,” liquid additives intended to be used in light lagers. The varieties include chocolate and coffee, as opposed to [...]

Remember those hilarious videos from Breckenridge Brewing a while back? My favorite was “Gravity Activated Pouring.” They’ve released two more. Probably as good as at least half of those that will be on display Sunday during the Super Bowl.

In the early 1980s, Anheuser-Busch chairman of the board August Busch III ordered that freshly brewed cans of Budweiser and Bud Light would be cryogenically frozen, so that they could be tasted against each other over time. More than 20 years later, Wall Street Journal reporter Sarah Ellison described a scene where Busch and Doug [...]

Ray Daniels predicts that his Cicerone program will 10,000th certification in a matter of weeks. And it seems like only yesterday, as opposed to 79 AD in Pompeii (which is where this photo was taken; in 2008 rather than before Mount Vesuvius erupted). Here are the basics from a little press release: It may seem [...]

If you read blogs and don’t write a blog then your answer to the question Alan McLeod asks, “What If I Posted A Series Of Posts For A Fee?” will likely be read with great interest by Alan and others who write blogs. Go. Comment. Otherwise, a few links I’ve collected in recent weeks and [...]

It was nearly one hundred years between the time philosopher Henry Finck proposed humans literally have a “second way of smelling” and University of Pennsylvania Paul Rozin established the role of retronasal smell in perception of flavor. In 1886, Finck suggested that smell was responsible for at least two-thirds of gastronomic enjoyment. In an essay [...]

Maps, tents, mountains, beer. Taking a piss by the side of the road. Set to music. I’m a sucker for these sorts of things. Don’t know how I missed this video — about a) Deschutes beer, b) central Oregon, c) young people with tattoos, d) freedom, e) fill in the blank — for more than [...]

At the risk of repeating myself . . . A) If you want to start a heated online conversation then making beer rating the theme seems to be the way to go. Witness the dust up at Beer Advocate that was followed by commentary in 718 722 beer blogs. Or the 57 comments (so far) [...]

Mark Dredge at Pencil and Spoon raises the question of using hop extracts and oils in the brewing process. Part of me think it’s a bit strange to use extract but the other part doesn’t mind if it’s done to be able to give the best flavour or bitterness possible – extract seems to give [...]

‘Tis the season for predictions. The Future of Beer, or at least for 2012. The rise of gluten free beer, discovering gruit, more hoppy beers, fewer hoppy beers, old school beers, new fangled beers. There are more where those came from. They can’t all be right in 2012, but they could be in the long [...]