Posts Tagged: Beer News
Where is Guinness Best?
Posted by on Saturday, November 6, 2004 in - leave a comment
A UK pub owner spents £5,300 of his own money to fly 48 of his patrons to Ireland to find out if the Guinness there is actually the best. I wish he was my pal.
Some Go Too Far For A Brew
Posted by on Thursday, November 4, 2004 in - leave a comment
The funniest thing is the fact that the guy was buried with beer in the first place: • “A woman has been arrested for digging up her dead boyfriend's ashes from a cemetery more than 10 years ago and drinking the beer that was buried with him, possibly out of spite for his family, authorities …
Beer Hall of Fame
Posted by on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 in - 1 comment
I never knew. I never knew that, on one hand, there was no beer hall of fame or, on the other, that we needed one. The good folk of Frenkenmuth, Michigan didn't make it. Duluth bailed. The ever useful realbeer.com tells the story: • “In a press release, Beer Hall of Fame Project Manager, Joe …
Boycott!!!
Posted by on Saturday, September 25, 2004 in - 2 comments
The exceptionally well-named Yates on the States, the tale of a family man from Manchester, England living in Minnesota, has raised this banner. It leads to an interesting consideration of the global brewing industry. • Yates's complaint is that cask conditioned Boddington's ale will no longer … read more »
Beer Heist!
Posted by on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 in - 3 comments
From CBC in the Maritimes: • “RCMP officers in Woodstock, N.B., have discovered • more than 5,000 of the 50,400 cans of Moosehead beer that went missing en route • to Mexico last week. Police were investigating a crash involving a trailer that • went off the road at East Newbridge, near …
Brew Pub Co-op
Posted by on Thursday, February 26, 2004 in - leave a comment
I am a bit excited...that's all...I will be your king...dum-dee-dum... • What a good idea. This is a picture of Chuck looking silly adding hops to a brewing batch of beer... but quite rightly celebrating a local brew pub run as a village co-operative. $4,000 CND gets you into the co-op. It is …
Beer Crime
Posted by on Thursday, December 25, 2003 in - leave a comment
I just noticed this over at the B'log. I am sure Ale-Fan would get a • laugh despite his fuzzy heed. Apparently • a guy in Owen • Sound took a 2-4 back to exchange saying it was the wrong brand but in fact • the box was full of recapped bottles containing water. It now appears that …
