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Home > 2008 January Brew News 2008 January Brew News Mayflower Brewing Company Launches Its First Kegs of Beer(Jan. 30) - Beeradvocate - Mayflower Brewing Company has beer in kegs! We are proud to announce our first batch of Mayflower Pale Ale has been kegged up and is being shipped to customers this week. Complete Story Choc Beer brewery releases black lager(Jan. 30) - The Choc Beer brewery has released its fourth beer, a black lager called Miner Mishap. “I really think they have come up with a great product in the Miner Mishap,” said Joe Prichard, owner of Pete’s Place. “We use the term ‘don’t be afraid of the dark’ because although it looks like Guinness, it drinks like Shiner.” Complete Story
Dado Bier launches the first beer with yerba-maté(Jan. 26) - Beer Advocate - Brazilian brewery Dado Bier has found in one of the most traditional elements of South American culture the raw material for their Dado Bier Ilex, an innovative mixed brew which brings the flavor and characteristic aroma of yerba-maté to a surprising beer. Complete Story Seattlest Beer of the Week: Baron Pils(Jan. 26) - The Baron Pils is a perfect break from the big, high alcohol Winter beers that we have been enjoying. After a few heavy beers at a bar the other day, we grabbed a Baron Pils to lighten up and were happy as can be. Complete Story Oskar Blues Brewery Grows 51% in 2007(Jan. 25) - Colorado - The company -- the nation's first hand-canning craftbrewery and makers of canned Dale's Pale Ale, Old Chub Scottish Style Ale, Gordon, and Ten FIDY Imperial Stout -- produced 12,409 barrels of beer in 2007. Complete Story Bruisin' Ales Rated as One of the World's Best Beer Retailers(Jan. 25) - North Carolina - Asheville’s Bruisin Ales beer specialty store has been ranked as the world’s number two beer retailer by the respected RateBeer.com Web site. The shop at 66 Broadway, has some 650 brews in stock. Complete Story Great Alaska Beer & Barley Wine Festival(Jan. 23) - Alaska - Pelican Pub & Brewery Stormwatcher’s Winterfest wins! Sleeping Lady Old Gander Barley Wine comes in second and Deschutes Super Jubale places third. America's best brew, Kate the Great Russian Imperial Stout(Jan. 23) - New Hampshire - In the December edition of Beer Advocate Magazine, the Port City's own Portsmouth Brewery received rave reviews for its Russian Imperial Stout called "Kate the Great." Judges deemed it the best beer in America and second best beer on planet Earth. Complete Story Cheeky Orlando brewer boasts organic beer is art(Jan. 23) - Florida - John Cheek is on the cutting edge with the world's oldest alcoholic beverage -- beer. Cheek is the man behind Orlando Brewing Co., one of a handful of certified organic breweries in the nation. Complete Story This extreme beer takes it to the limit one more time(Jan. 22) - Boston - "This is beer?" It's a question that's often heard after someone takes a sip of Samuel Adams Utopias; it's often accompanied by a disbelieving shake of the head. Complete Story Serving the perfect beer(Jan. 22) - AP Seattle - While American beer once meant light lager, today it encompasses a wide array of flavors concocted by innovative craft brewers whose varieties — and in some cases, alcohol content — approach the breadth of wine and spirits. Complete Story Anheuser-Busch Pushes the Big Beers for the Super Bowl(Jan. 21) - New York Times - "Anheuser-Busch, which buys more commercial time each year in the Super Bowl than any other marketer, is likely to run seven spots in Super Bowl XLII on Feb. 3, all of them for Budweiser or Bud Light. Complete Story Try craft and imported beers for better flavor(Jan. 21) - Texas - The hottest move in beer drinking today is toward craft and imported beers and away from lager-style lights, according to representatives of Sigel's and Centennial, two of Dallas' largest retailers. Complete Story The Great Beer Primer(Jan. 19) - Minnesota - “An ale is more fruity, more highly hopped,” agrees August Schell’s brewmaster Jeremy Kral. They also contain more alcohol. They’re more aromatic, fuller bodied, and carry a more pronounced hoppy tartness. Complete Story You Can Can Craft Beer(Jan. 18) - Brewery owner Dale Katechis lined up two cans and filled them manually with Dale’s Pale Ale, a full-fledged hop-snorter of a beer. He sealed them and, after filling four more, pulled plastic six-pack rings down on them. Complete Story Guilty Pleasures -- The Beer Shoppe(Jan. 18) - Washington - This week at the Beer Shoppe -- a Yakima store devoted strictly to malt and hops and a frequent after-work stop for Guilty Pleasures -- the winter ale supply had dwindled to a handful of bottles of Laughing Dog's Cold Nose and Full Sail's Wassail. Complete Story Stout of heart(Jan. 17) - Alaska - Local homebrewer Lisa Urban wanted to do something more than send flowers or donate to a fund for the Eagle Scouts. Around the middle of 2007, she got the idea that since Jeff was a beer lover, why not get a local brewery to commission a beer in his honor, the proceeds of which could be donated to a memorial for all of the fallen soldiers. Complete Story Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter Gets an "A"(Jan. 17) - Over 500 beer connoisseurs at Beer Advocate have rated Great Lakes' Porter the best American Porter. Complete Story How to Become a True Beer Dork(Jan. 17) - Washington - I've been a drinker of good beer for quite a few years now, but it was not until 2005 that I started to fully realize my geekiness. That was the year a friend introduced me to Ratebeer.com, and I starting exploring what is available and keeping track of what I drink and evaluating it. Complete Story Your beer cellar(Jan. 17) - California - Now that you've accumulated a selection of beers that you love, questions remain: How should they be stored? How long can you keep them? Here are a few simple suggestions. Complete Story Bottoms Up: winter beers(Jan. 16) - Massachusetts - We are gathered here in the Berkshires for this thing called “Winter Study.” Under normal circumstances this name is only half of a misnomer: it’s winter, but there’s usually not much “study” occurring. Complete Story Choc Beer Company Releases Miner Mishap(Jan. 15) - Oklahoma - Choc Beer Company's new Miner Mishap black lager will appear on liquor store shelves next week in time to battle falling temperatures. The rich-tasting German beer was made to enjoy during cold winter months. Complete Story How to pour the perfect beer(Jan. 15) - Canada - In fact, there’s now so much to learn about beer styles and how to serve them that the president of the Craft Beer Institute, Ray Daniels, has launched a sort of beer sommelier certification program. Complete Story Full Sail Brewing re-launches "LTD" series(Jan. 14) - Oregon - Full Sail proudly announces the return of its lagerseasonal program - the LTD series. Our first offering is a wonderfullybalanced medium, copper colored lager with subtle hop accents, and acaramel aroma, that goes down smooth - perfect for the winter season. Website Strong and strange Brews(Jan. 14) - Alaska - Extreme brewing has grown in popularity across the United States largely because brewers remain a creative lot and get bored brewing beers that just make money. Complete Story Fauerbach Brewing Company Challenges Home Brewers(Jan. 13) - Wisconsin - Fauerbach Brewing Company of Madison has given an original recipe from the brewery archives to the Madison Home Brewers and Tasters Guild. Fauerbach offered a challenge to members of the Guild to compete to develop their next beer. Complete Story Raise a Pint: Scientists Say Beer Has Essential Cancer-Fighting Agents(Jan. 13) - Germany - Preliminary studies indicate xanthohumol, a compound found in hops, inhibits a family of enzymes which trigger cancer, as well as help the body detoxify carcinogens. "It's very healthy," said Dr. Werner Back, a brewing technology expert at the Technical University of Munich. "I think the ingredients in the beer are very good." Complete Story Smoky Mountain Brewery is open for business in Turkey Creek(Jan. 12) - Tennessee - The site has a production capacity of around 1 million pints per year, a total that will effectively double the amount of beer produced in combination with two other Smoky Mountain locations in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. Complete Story Blue Point Brewery to Tap World’s Largest Cask (Jan. 12) - New York - Award-Winning Long Island Microbrewer, Blue Point Brewing Company, will host the 4th annual BLUE POINT CASK ALE FESTIVAL on Saturday, January 26th, 2008 where it will tap the world’s largest cask filled with their custom, featured brew, Rye Hop Knot. Complete Story Beer vendor Hale has served up suds, laughs for 45 years at Lambeau(Jan. 12) - Green Bay - Allan Hale trudges up and down his 35 steps in Lambeau Field for nearly five hours every game day, flashing a sly grin as fans cheer him. Complete Story American Brewery project turns a corner(Jan. 11) - Maryland - With the massive beer tanks removed and the once-exposed rooftops patched and braced, developers of the American Brewery building in East Baltimore are moving forward with a project they hope will spark a revival in the neighborhood. Complete Story Old Hat introduces gluten-free beer(Jan. 10) - Vermont - Freda Osborne, co-owner of the Old Hat Brewery in Lawton, said she heard from a customer that his wife wouldn't be coming to the pub anymore because she suffered from celiac disease, a nutritional disorder caused by faulty absorption of gluten. Complete Story Organic beers? Hey, the sipping is nice and easy(Jan. 10) - Baltimore - Sipping organic beers seemed like a dream come true. I got to be a beer drinker and a do-gooder at one sitting. The reality of the organic-beer scene turned out to be slightly more complicated. Complete Story BEER SNOB: MAKE MINE A BARLEY WINE(Jan. 9) - Connecticut - Since the 18th century, the English have turned to barley wine to heat themselves, so I've decided to try one from the mother country, and four feisty American variations on the theme. Complete Story Tabletop Beer Dispensing Machine(Jan. 9) - California - Krups and Heineken have teamed up to produce the BeerTender, a tabletop beer dispensing machine. Made just for Heineken -- it doesn't work with any other kegs -- it keeps the beer cool and tracks the temperature of the beer, how much is left and how long it's been sitting there. Complete Story Strange Brew?(Jan. 9) - Romania - A man from Romania was rushed to hospital after finding a dead mouse in his bottle of beer. Mihai Stanescu, 32, from the town of Bacau, ended up in an emergency hospital with food poisoning. Complete Story Widmer helps Oregon home brewers bring beer to market(Jan. 7) - Oregon - Oregon is justly famous for its beer culture, between the thousands of home brewers experimenting in their basements and the handful of large breweries who sell the state's beers around the world. Complete Story New Zealand's Golden Bay microbrewery 'hot' travel destination(Jan. 7) - NZ - Last year, a "beer bounty" offered by the Mussel Inn assisted the cull of thousands of possums. The inn exchanged a handle of beer in return for every possum tail delivered. Complete Story World's First Remote-Control Beer Cooler(Jan. 6) - Gadgets - If you wander by the Interactive Toy Concepts booth at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, there is a good chance you'll be greeted by a friendly bump from a drink (beer) bearing device called the RC Cooler. The RC Cooler is exactly what it sounds like -- a radio-controlled cooler. Complete Story Beer: ‘proof that God loves us’(Jan. 6) - Colorado - Evolution of a brewer: From a style and/or technique standpoint, where did you start? Where are you now? Complete Story Terrapin Beer Company Rallies for Fans to Grow a 'Stache Until Licensed(Jan. 5) - Georgia - There are no picket lines in this rally. There are no plans for sit-ins or marches. The symbol for this demonstration is right under your nose, silently and slowly growing in support: your mustache. Complete Story ‘Beer for My Horses’ to be filmed in New Mexico(Jan. 5) - NM - Beer For My Horses tells the story of two best friends that work together as deputies in a small town. The two defy the sheriff and head off on an outrageous road trip to save the protagonist’s girlfriend from drug lord kidnappers. Complete Story Deschutes Organic Ale and the Abyss(Jan. 4) - Oregon - Deschutes Brewery's latest release in the Bond Street Series, Green Lakes Organic Ale, hit the shelves right around Christmas. "Green Lakes is a classic amber ale," said Deschutes brewer Paul Arney. Complete Story One man's quest to turn the Treasure Valley into 'Beer Valley'(Jan. 4) - Idaho - Pete Ricks of Beer Valley Brewing wants to fill that gap. OK - Beer Valley is in Ontario, so it's the loosely-defined Treasure Valley. But Ricks is from Meridian and is moving back to the area from sunny Arizona for one purpose - to make killer craft beer. Complete Story Hops shortage a bitter reality for brewers, beer lovers(Jan. 4) - Arizona - The hops shortage threatens to boost prices, cut into profits and close down brewpubs. It could change the taste and consistency of treasured local ales. Complete Story Voodoo brew: How a local brewer's $9-a-bottle beer can satisfy your thirst(Jan. 4) - Pennsylvania - He bottles them at the back of an old Meadville funeral home. He stamps caps on Black Magicks and Big Bad Voodoo Daddies, and he boxes tall bottles of Wynona's Big Brown Ale, a chocolate-and-Marris Otter malt that takes its name from an off-color Primus song. Complete Story New Belgium Brewing’s wastewater to feed fish(Jan. 3) - Colorado -The New Belgium Brewing is joining forces with three Colorado entrepreneurs to turn the brewery’s wastewater into high-protein fish food, according to a local report. Complete Story Beer could supplant sacramental wine in historic church(Jan. 3) - Canada - A local businessman wants to convert the Ottawa Valley's oldest Protestant house of worship, a deconsecrated Anglican church, into an industrial brewery and brew pub with nightly entertainment. Complete Story Tapping into Japanese craft beers(Jan. 2) - Los Angeles - So where are the Japanese craft beers? A few have been showing up, including some excellent examples, but they've had a late start. It's not the brewers' fault. For many years, Japanese law made craft breweries illegal -- you had to make more than half a million gallons a year to be licensed. Complete Story Flying Dog Brewery has new show-stopping styles and packages for 2008(Jan. 1) - The brewery continues its tradition of offering award-winning beers in 2008 with the release of a Biere de Garde as their new spring seasonal and a Tripel as the fourth member of its Canis Major Series of high gravity beers. Complete Story An American pale ale that's refreshingly tasty(Jan. 1) - Wisconsin - I can tell that Capital has made a well-balanced example -- clean-tasting, nice clarity and well -- integrated hops that don't strangle your taste buds, but mingle well with the malt flavor. It had a nice body to it -- not too thin, not too heavy. Complete Story St. Pauli Girl Readies 2008 Poster for January Debut - Beeradvocate - Irina Voronina, the 2008 St. Pauli Girl spokes model, poses for photographer Jay Silverman during a recent photo shoot in Hollywood, Calif. St. Pauli Girl Beer is in the final stages of developing its new St. Pauli Girl poster, which will debut in spring 2008. Complete Story Google Photos of Irina Voronina |
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