Online voting starts Tuesday for the national Beer City USA Poll, and three-time winner Asheville — one tie and two solo wins — has to be considered a strong candidate for a fourth consecutive victory.
This would be a solid traffic generator for CraftBeer.com. Always wondered why Charlie Papazian ran it on Examiner.com instead.
The Senate passed a bill that would allow USPS to ship alcohol on Wednesday…
Private carriers like UPS and FedEx have shipped booze for years, but the post office has been constrained by a law that’s been on the books since before Prohibition. For legal nerds, the regulations can be traced back to Section 217 of 18 U.S.C. 1716(f) of the Act of March 4, 1909, ch. 321, 35 Stat. 1131, according to the post office’s legal department.
via TIME.
Monkey Fist is the genesis of a new generation of IPA. The traditional elements of classic English IPA have been redefined by American craft beer innovation.
Monkey Fist is the genesis of a new generation of IPA. The traditional elements of classic English IPA have been redefined by American craft beer innovation.
(Brooklyn, NY) – Sixpoint Brewery announced the launch of Apollo Summer Wheat today. The text below comes from this morning’s email blast.
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The last time we launched a new beer, we dissected and glorified the hop cone. As many have noticed over the years, Sixpoint has a fascination – bordering on obsession – with hops. Today we are happy to announce a complete change of pace. We are offering you an entirely new canned creation brewed with finesse and subtlety. The secret and story in this beer is not within the hops, but instead within the yeast.
Apollo is the first-ever summer installment in our seasonal can rotation, and a new style for the brewery as well. In a white can to reflect the sun as well as nod to one of its main ingredients, white wheat, this ale is a clear, bronze-hued elixir to cool down those oncoming scorching days and sweltering evenings.
The inspiration for Apollo came from a land that is very dear to beer. Over the past few years, we’ve traveled to Bavaria several times to experience again the truly golden qualities of their weizens, or wheat ales. A collaboration between Sixpoint Founder/President Shane Welch and Sixpoint Braumeister Jan Matysiak, a German native and Weihenstephan Institute alumnus, the recipe was developed over many tastings and tourings around Bavaria, and put into action back home. Using an ancient Bavarian wheat ale yeast and a 50/50 ratio of wheat malt to barley malt, Apollo ale pays homage to its tried-and-true roots while offering a twist on tradition.
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The Rare Beer Club actually features three breweries in May as one is a collaboration beer. You have seen news about Odell and Thornbridge’s Pond Hopper and Rare Beer Club members will have exclusive access to this beer 2-3 weeks before its public release. The other beer to be featured is Viven (Smoked) Porter. Rare Beer Club members will have exclusive access to a limited run of 750s. Only 60 cases of 11.2 oz. bottles will hit the market through Shelton Brothers and not until 4-6 weeks after RBC members received their shipment.
Looks like a solid month to join and it’s not too early to start thinking Father’s Day or Mother’s Day gift either (for you or someone else).
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More on this month’s featured beers:
Viven (Smoked) Porter: Rated a 96/97 on RateBeer.com. “A SMOKED Porter at 7.0 vol%. This is the first commercially available smoked porter made inside Belgium. A revelation! [...] This time, some bottle conditioning has even done some more complexity. Nose immediately gives roasty and smokey accents, and this in perfect harmony with – again – fruity yeasty flavors.” – Belgian Beer Board.
Pond Hopper Double Extra Pale Ale: “Pond Hopper Double Extra Pale Ale is the love child of this international brewmance. Brewed with English malts and American hops, Pond Hopper brings together the best ingredients each country has to offer, balancing a subtle sweet malt character with hosts of mango and peach hop flavor. It pours a rich golden color with citrus and ripe melon essence in the nose.”
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For your first shipment, you will receive the above two beers. Beginning with your next shipment, you will have the ability to substitute in beers from prior shipments that are still available. See more info under ‘Handy Information’ below. Click here for the full list of beers that BeerPulse has featured in recent months.
So, what do I get when I order?
You can order a no-obligation membership or a prepaid membership. There is no cancellation fee. 100% satisfaction is guaranteed. There are three different membership levels:
Platinum – (6) – 750 ml. bottles each month, three bottles of two different beers. $68.95 plus $18.00 S&H per month.
Gold – (4) – 750 ml. bottles each month, two bottles of two different beers. $51.95 plus $15.00 S&H per month.
Silver – (2) – 750 ml. bottles each month, one bottle of two different beers. $31.95 plus $13.00 S&H per month.
Handy Information:
There is flexibility in terms of how often you choose to receive beers and what beers you receive. Personal and gift memberships can be shipped monthly, every other month, quarterly or even on specific months.
Rare Beer Club personal memberships are given additional flexibility through their Future Shipment Update (FSU) Program. Members are sent an email at the beginning of the month detailing the two upcoming selections and a form that allows them to either skip the entire shipment, skip only one of the beers, or add more bottles of either the featured beers or their favorite past selections. In short, you’ll never get a beer you didn’t want as a personal member.
Memberships can also be ordered to give as beer gifts as opposed to just for yourself.
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A 53-year-old man was stabbed and robbed of a 16 oz. can of Natural Ice beer in front of Back Bay Market in Tice on Sunday night.
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Here at Northern Brewer we love dogs just about as much as we love brewing (maybe more). For many years, dogs accompanied their owners to work at Northern Brewer and freely roamed our offices. And for many of us, brew day is a wonderful opportunity to spend time with our canine friends. So when we heard about a customer’s scary experience after their dog consumed hops we were shaken and wanted to help. For wider education on the issue, we would like echo a very serious warning about dogs and hops.
Though research is not extensive, ingesting hops can be highly toxic to some breeds of dogs (Golden Retrievers and especially Greyhounds have been documented). There are many scary stories on homebrewing forums about dogs eating hops after unsuspecting brewers left unused hops out in a place accessible to their dog, or dumped their kettle trub and hop sediment into the yard, or had a hop plant in their yard that dropped cones on the ground. Some dogs that ingest hops rapidly develop a condition called Malignant Hyperthermia, in which the body temperature rises uncontrollably. This can be very harmful or fatal to the dog. Some symptoms are restlessness, panting, vomiting, abdominal pain, seizures, rapid heart rate, and high temperature. If a dog has possibly ingested hops and exhibits symptoms, they should be taken to an emergency pet hospital immediately for treatment.
This abstract from the National Institute for Biotechnology Information represents one of the few scientific confirmations of the issue, and this page has a record of one homebrewer’s experience (their dog was fortunately saved).
Keep your dogs safe!
It was a fine decision. We met Mike Turner, aka Little Mikey, who most of our pals know from Neal's before the Midtown bar burned down last year.
With summer right around the corner, beer enthusiasts and beach-goers would be wise to invest in the Ice Core Beer Pitcher.
