Interesting, one has to wonder whether Magic Hat Brewing Company’s announced acquisition of Pyramid Brewery is the start of consolidation in the microbrew industry or just a blip on the radar. It seems to me that increasing costs (including hops, barley, and oil) combined with a slowing economy might make some of the less profitable […]
So, over in California they seem to be interested in killing off the state’s healthy micobrew industry with a fairly onerous sounding sin tax, at least according to this article in Underhill Lounge. That increase, of almost $2 per sixpack, combined with the higher price of beer generally, could turn off a whole generation of […]
Hopfen and Malz returns in “So this priest walks into a bar … #3″
Ok, so this one is not about me but comes from a fellow priest who is now retired. Back in the early 90’s, he was serving in a small church in Scotland. Now one day Steve was in the pub and the […]
So, if you’re looking for something beery to do today, and you are near Petaluma, CA, you might check out this beer tasting and chili cookoff. Looks like fun. On my side of the country, I probably could have persuaded my garden-loving wife to go to the Biergarten at Hershey Gardens in Hershey, PA had […]
Forgot to mention this in my earlier post on Kölsch, but I was told the waiters in the Kölsch beer halls (called Köbes) are actually freelancers, and that they effectively run a tab with the beer hall itself. At Päffgen, the Köbes carried around double-tiered Kölschkränze, a specially designed beer tray, to serve all of […]
There are a lot of obscure and strange laws on the books which relate to how beer and other alcoholic products can be marketed, sold, distributed, and pretty much limiting all aspects of the product which can be limited. The Mount Shasta Brewing Co. found this out the hard way, when the FDA decided that […]
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This past Sunday was not the warmest of days, but after a long walk in the local arboretum with my three small children I was hankering for a beer on the porch and some moments of relative peace. My beer of choice? Gaffel Kölsch, and for whatever reason it was just the right thing. As […]
So this priest walks into a bar … #2
It was Ash Wednesday and it also happened to be my sexton’s birthday. So after the noonday service he and I walked two blocks down to the local pub for a bite of lunch. Needless to say, I was still in my full clerical garb […]
According to Topix and WCPO-TV9 Cincinnati the Hofbräuhaus has sold its 2 millionth liter of beer. Strangely enough, I was unable to find anything about it in either the Munich newspaper or on the Hofbräuhaus website.
That’s because it’s the Hofbräuhaus in Cincinnati. I was wondering why it would be bigger news in Cincinnati than […]
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