So let’s get right to this World Cup football thing. Story in Yahoo! Sports (thanks to Neal Stewart) points out the financial benefits for sports bars and large breweries. This video from Freetail Brewing in San Antonio (which is approaching 50,000 views on YouTube) indicates they are more widespread. My local brewpub (Turtle Mountain Brewing) [...]

Thank you Alder Yarrow, for a post that takes us quite nicely into the weekend. In a wine culture obsessed with the idea of pairing, far too few people talk about the best complement to a nice glass of wine: sex. Yep, I’m thinking beer belongs in this conversation. (As the people filming those commercials [...]

There’s no chance I will ever catch up but meanwhile . . . Zephyr Adventures, which already runs the Wine Bloggers Conference, has announced the long anticipated Beer Bloggers Conference, to be held Nov. 5-7 in Boulder, Colorado. No real agenda yet, just a plan for “150 bloggers and others involved in the world of [...]

Should Molson Coors have been surprised by the shitstorm that followed the announcement it will launch a clear beer as part of a drive to increase the number of women lager drinkers in the UK? I gotta think they could have been better prepared, but it might have taken supernatural powers to plan for the [...]

Truth is sometimes I turn these lists into a post so I have the links saved for more careful reading later. Why Should Terroir Matter . . . from a speech by Randall Grahm. I don’t care about “saving” high end wines, but thought provoking. I suspect most of the time we should be happy [...]

Robin Goldstein, already adept at raising a ruckus in the wine world, has turned his attention to beer. The Amazon.com description of The Beer Trials, due in April, promises: “With brutally honest ratings and reviews of the 250 most popular beers in the world – both in bottle and on draft – The Beer Trials [...]

I was going to write about brewers as rock stars today but will save that for Monday (something to think about over the weekend, Alan) because there are so many business related stories worth considering. Start by wandering over to the Zythophile and check out a couple of posts about words for beer (here’s the [...]

British beer writer of the year Pete Brown is giving away the trip to Ceske Budejovice, where Budvar is brewed, he won last month. He’s been twice and figures the trip would not give him as much value as it could someone else. Working in conjunction with Budvar UK and The Publican, we’re launching a [...]

Drastic changes, no apologies. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an in-depth look at Anheuser-Busch InBev one year later. Scientists discover that mormons like beer. Just go read it. It’ll make you smile. Best after. Deschutes Brewery founder Gary Fish talks about why the brewery decided to put a “best after” date on beers in its [...]

Last week Joe Stange blogged about The Mythology of Glassware. Perhaps that’s why Gourmet moved a very long story about Riedel glassware to the free section of its archives. It’s titled “Shattered Myths” so I don’t think I’m spoiling the punchline when I quote from the end: Georg Riedel finally seemed to be vindicated when [...]