Brewing News
Beer Examiner Showing entries for Category: Beer-Culture
May 01, 2008 - I travel a lot at 36,000 feet and more often than Id like to admit Im doing time to the tune of 4 to 12 hours a leg. Thats a lot of time to think about stuff. As a result I have come to the conclusion that I simply dont understand the deprivation therapy were subjected to at high elevations.
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Grape expectations
May 01, 2008 - This is where James Loo comes to relax. It is quiet and cool. The smell of pine fills your nostrils. And the rows upon rows of bottles create a pleasing sense of order.
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Measured taste
May 01, 2008 - IT'S SUNDAY, April 27, and I've just filed my final report from the Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival. Back in Indio, Roger Waters is still on stage, finishing his set.
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Seaway Valley Capital Corporation Releases Update
April 29, 2008 - Seaway Valley Capital Corporation (OTCBB:SWVC) ("Seaway Valley") chairman and chief executive officer, Thomas W. Scozzafava, issued the following update to its shareholders today:
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BodyVox ties one on in new "Horizontal Leanings"
April 28, 2008 - BodyVox, Portland's upbeat, sometimes antic, dance company, prepares an ambitious new stagework while also planning to renovate a new home. The BodyVox rehearsal studio in the Pearl District looks -- as your mom might have put it when she poked her head into your childhood bedroom -- like a tornado hit it.
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BodyVox jetes into recycling
April 28, 2008 - The BodyVox rehearsal studio in the Pearl District looks -- as your mom might have put it, when she poked her head into your childhood bedroom -- like a tornado hit it.
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A family run business in Lucan makes craft beers
April 28, 2008 - LUCAN - At first glimpse, the red pole barn just outside of town looks like the last place you might find a brewery, until you pull up in the gravel parking lot and notice delivery vans with beer labels on them.
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Travels with Steinbeck
April 27, 2008 - MONTEREY, Calif. Old Margo seemed like a character ripped from the pages of a John Steinbeck novel. There was a story seething right under the surface, but darn if we would be able to figure it out.
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Joe Sixpack: Now that the primary is over, we can focus on what's new in the beer biz
April 25, 2008 - GOOD RIDDANCE, Barack, Hillary and that dopey CNN bus. Now it's time for Philly to get back to the business of beer consumption.
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ABQ brewpub opens this week
April 24, 2008 - The Marble Brewery, north of downtown Albuquerque, is gearing up for a soft opening Wednesday.
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Beer Examiner Showing entries for Category: Beer-and-People
April 24, 2008 - While marketing people are trying to figure out how to make beer attractive to more women, it seems that in a parallel, hidden world is another perspective that portrays whats really going on. Women do like the taste of beer and love to brew it - and brew it well they do.
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Beer Here -- Amnesia Baltic Porter from the Grumpy Troll
April 24, 2008 - Brewmaster Mark Duchow of The Grumpy Troll in Mount Horeb keeps racking up the awards for impressive beers. The latest: a gold medal in the World Beer Cup for his Baltic porter. Amnesia Baltic Porter was the top pick in its style category. The World Beer Cup, which the industry likes to call the Olympics of beer, featured more than 2800 beers from 58 counties in this year's competition. Earning ...
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The Department of Burnt Ends smokes out some saucy new beers
April 24, 2008 - If there are two things synonymous with Kansas City, they're booze and barbecue. While the rest of the country sneaked sips at Prohibition-era speak-easies, Kansas Citians rollicked in the streets with liquor in one hand and some kind of barbecued meat in the other. So now that it's the season of a ...
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Top club picks
April 24, 2008 - The Belmont: Crashing Cairo, 9 p.m. Fri. Run Run Run, 10 p.m. Fri. 10215 Jos. Campau, Hamtramck. 313-871-1966. Cavern Club: Double Take, with Circus, 9 p.m. Fri. Killer Flamingos, 10 p.m. Sat. 210 S. First, Ann Arbor. 734-332-9900.
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Mike Ivey: Cheers! Here's to outrageous CEO pay
April 24, 2008 - It seems appropriate for a final column in The Capital Times daily print edition to highlight two of my longtime favorite business topics: excessive CEO pay and craft brewing. First, a toast to the Grumpy Troll in Mount Horeb for bringing home a Gold Medal in the 2008 "World Beer Cup." Owner Doug Welshinger and brewmaster Mark "Captain" Duchow just returned from San Diego where they were honored ...
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San Francisco
April 22, 2008 - Ivan Chramosil is the brewmaster of the worlds oldest brewpub. Prague is a city of beer and architecture. The country is flooded with Czech light lager. Only Pilsner Urquell can be called Pilsener, all the rest is referred to as just light lager.
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Locals exchange knowledge with Argentine visitors
April 22, 2008 - Five visitors from Argentina spent a few days in Baker County last week learning about the area's agricultural industry and "promoting peace and understanding among nations," according to Jim Gibson, president of the Rotary Club of Baker City.
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The beer that made Mount Horeb famous
April 22, 2008 - You've probably seen those TV spots for Miller Lite, bragging about gold medals the brand has won at the World Beer Cup.
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Student Brews Unique Education
April 22, 2008 - When the Cambridge Queens Head Pub opened last spring, it included an unmarked tap among the more recognizable beer names. Patrons had to know to ask for the honey lager, which had been brewed by several enterprising undergraduates with a keen interest in beer.
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Mayor appoints liaison to City Council
April 22, 2008 - A politically savvy insider at Denver City Hall is leaving the auditor's office to join Mayor John Hickenlooper's administration.
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Businessman Barron Guss honored
April 22, 2008 - The National Federation of Independent Business has named Honolulu businessman Barron Guss as the state's Solveras/NFIB Small Business Champion of the Year.
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No easy way to get to Boulder, so plan on at least an hour
April 21, 2008 - I will start this column by saying I have - probably like most Coloradans - a love-hate relationship with Boulder. Living and working in the People's Republic for a few years, I became acquainted with its many charms and irritations.
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644 Breweries Compete for Medals in the 'Olympics' of Beer
April 21, 2008 - Brewers from five continents earned awards from an elite international panel of judges this week in the 2008 Brewers Association World Beer Cup. The seventh bi-annual competition awarded medals to brewers from 21 countries ranging from Australia and Italy to Bolivia and Japan.
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Brewers From 21 Countries Win Big at 2008 World Beer Cup
April 21, 2008 - Boulder, Colorado: Brewers from five continents earned awards from an elite international panel of judges this week in the 2008 Brewers Association World Beer Cup. The seventh bi-annual competition awarded medals to brewers from 21 countries ranging from Australia and Italy to Bolivia and Japan.
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Questions/Answers
April 20, 2008 - Questions and answers on Daily Bulletin stories from readers like you. As if the story of Mission Promenade in downtown Pomona weren't complicated enough, the development has a surprising new owner: City Hall.
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Steve Johnson's Web Spin
April 20, 2008 - Fast takes on the week's five most viewed Tribune stories on the paper's Web site. Fast takes on the week's five most viewed Tribune stories on the paper's Web site. Find them at chicagotribune.com/most .
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Philly Beer Geek Finalist Aaron Fournier
April 20, 2008 - Aaron Fournier competed in the 1st Annual Philly Beer Geek Finals Competition 2008. After a tough first round, he was chosen as one of the three beer geeks for the Final Round,
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Anchorage pub and pizzeria draws year-round crowds
April 19, 2008 - The menu is ever changing, the beer draws raves and the musical acts are second to none.
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Santa Cruz craft brewery opts to use cans
April 19, 2008 - Alec Stefansky and Skot Colacicco, partners in Uncommon Brewers, a new Santa Cruz craft brewery, have made the decision to go for all-aluminum cans, which are 100 percent recyclable. More Green Living news and tips
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Beer Here -- Rich's Grand Cru from J.T. Whitney's
April 18, 2008 - When pairing food with drink, most people will start by selecting the entrée and then choose a beer or wine to match. But Belgian red beers, especially those with sour tones, almost cry for inverse logic. One selects these first and then thinks about a wonderful seafood dish as a 'quot;grand'quot; companion. The best match will have some assertive citrus or even dill flavors to match with the ...
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Cheap Eats
April 18, 2008 - Portland's bikiest, most sustainable brewpub is now open after much anticipation and it remains wait-list busy a couple of weeks on.
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Insurance companies illegally taxed
April 17, 2008 - An appeals court has ruled that the fees Hawai'i charges insurance companies are unconstitutional and amount to an illegal tax.
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Style Sheet: American amber ale
April 16, 2008 - There's something about a redhead... By Jeff Holland.Back in my early days of beer discovery, I sampled a few of the products from the big breweries that were labeled "amber" or "red," often marketed as stepping-stone beers for those looking to graduate from fizzy, yellow lagers to something more flavorful and rich. I pretty much came to the conclusion that these were styles to avoid. Most of ...
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Heat Rises: Pappy's Smokehouse elevates humble barbecue to ethereal heights
April 16, 2008 - Not even a minute after I first walked into Pappy's Smokehouse, the fantastic new midtown barbecue joint, I thought I was busted. I might as well have worn a T-shirt with "Restaurant Critic" in bold, bright type. Owner Mike Emerson strode right over to where I stood at the end of the long line to or ...
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Oenophiles can roll out the barrel in Tempe
April 16, 2008 - Picking up a bottle at the grocery store used to be the way most people bought wine.
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First Goose Island brewpub to lose lease
April 15, 2008 - Closure doesn't affect production of Goose Island beer Goose Island Beer Co.'s pioneering North Side brewpub, where the Chicago area's flagship craft beer was launched 20 years ago, is slated to close at the end of 2008, a victim of rising rents in its hip neighborhood.
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Goose Island Plans to Shutter N. Clybourn Brewpub
April 15, 2008 - Audio Available Goose Island is planning to close its North Clybourn brewpub at the end of the year.
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First Goose Island brewpub to close
April 15, 2008 - Goose Island Beer Co.'s pioneering North Side brew pub, where the Chicago area's flagship craft beer was launched 20 years ago, is scheduled to close at the end of 2008, a victim of rising rents in its hip neighborhood.
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News: Let there be beer: Students in EBF explore the art of homebrewing
April 15, 2008 - The search for a tasty brew has consumed the nightlife of college students for eons.
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Revolution brewing in Logan Square
April 15, 2008 - Goose Island Beer Co. may be forced to quit its original North Side location, but investors are laying plans for another brewpub not far away in Logan Square.
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Original Goose Island Brew Pub To Close
April 15, 2008 - Beer drinkers have been bellying up to the original Goose Island Brewery and Bar on the western edge of the Lincoln Park neighborhood for two decades, but now it's going belly up.
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Goose Island loses lease, to close its Clybourn spot
April 14, 2008 - Goose Island Beer Co. said Monday it will close its original brewpub at 1800 N. Clybourn by year-end because it has lost its lease.
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Goose Island brewpub closing after 20 years
April 14, 2008 - After 20 years in operation, Goose Island Beer Co.'s original brewpub at 1800 N. Clybourn St. will close at the end of the year due to the firm's inability to renew its lease.
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Lake Superior's Circle Tour provides everything a tourist's heart could desire
April 13, 2008 - The Circle Tour will have you falling for Superior.
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Cape Cod Beer spreads cheer
April 13, 2008 - HYANNIS Many will remember 2008 as a year of cutting back. For Cape Cod Beer, it's a year of expansion.
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Road work shifts traffic, slows businesses
April 13, 2008 - Major traffic disruption on Highway 51/29 is approaching its final week, and businesses and motorists are more than ready to see the end.
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Microbrews and kids make a heady mix
April 11, 2008 - Beer is the new formula. And I mean the kind babies drink from bottles as well as the kind that augurs success. It doesnt seem obvious that microbrews and micropeople make for a winning combination. But as the success of the Laurelwood brewpubs proved, Portlanders lap it up like toddlers ...
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National effort pushes tap water over bottled
April 11, 2008 - While sales of bottled water are booming in the United States, a handful of St. Louis restaurants on Wednesday joined the growing campaign nationwide to stop selling bottled water, instead serving customers the city's finest municipal drink -- tap water.
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Downtown Grill & Brewery
April 10, 2008 - Description: Fresh hand-crafted brews, mesquite-grilled specialties, jumbo pastas and salads served in a historic downtown setting with a patio. Sunday Jazz Brunch with breakfast burritos, omelets, and quiche as well as traditional staples.
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Restaurants To Stop Using Bottled Water
April 10, 2008 - While sales of bottled water are booming in the United States, a handful of St. Louis restaurants on Wednesday joined the growing campaign nationwide to stop selling bottled water, instead serving customers the city's finest municipal drink -- tap water.
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