Posts Tagged: Beer and Media
<i>All About Beer</i> Magazine
Posted by on Sunday, April 3, 2005 in - 1 comment
I bought the May 2005 issue of All About Beer, published for 25 yeas now out of North Carolina. The picture shown is of an earlier issues as the magazine's web site has not caught up to its current newstand issue. I seem to buy an issue every year or so which is a fair comment on my regard for it …
Beer: not fattening?
Posted by on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 in - 16 comments
This article from the BBC asks the question "Is beer less fattening than wine?" It provides evidence that beer is, in fact, not as fattening as we have been lead to believe -- that it is less fattening than wine and far less fattening than spirits. It claims the beer bellies that abound in the …
Bad Beer, Baaad Beer
Posted by on Saturday, March 5, 2005 in - 4 comments
Have a look at this article in the on-line version of UK paper The Independent about a sex crime crack-down in Russia. This is the headline: Kremlin acts to stem tide of porn, beer and thong ads. The article, however, is really about the movement to address sexual morality in Moscow. Beer is … read more »
Red Alert!
Posted by on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 in - leave a comment
Sadly, evil lerks in the hearts of men: • “The FBI was called out to investigate a suspicious bag in Auburn [California] Wednesday, just one day after a pipe bomb was found near the city's Department of Motor Vehicles office. Authorities were called to a building under construction at Maidu … read more »
Belgian Beer Podcast
Posted by on Sunday, January 2, 2005 in - leave a comment
A kind correspondent, Garrick Van Buren, has invited us to listen to the podcast he created which includes a discussion of Belgian trappist beers and other brews of note. Here is the link. I haven't listened yet bit any discussion including Westvleteren which also comes with an intro from Tod …
More Beer Radio
Posted by on Monday, November 29, 2004 in - leave a comment
From the Homebrewer's digest comes a link to North Queensland Craftbrewers Radio Show. If I thought the USA-based Beer Radio was perhaps a little over-produced to meet the expectations of its market, this goes well the other way. I have been listening to the first show on the list and it sounds …
Beer Radio
Posted by on Sunday, November 21, 2004 in - leave a comment
The other day I wrote about the US Beer Hall of Fame proposed for Cincinnati and asked for anyone who could give me an answer why this was necessary. Well I got an answer - direct from the man behind the initiative, Dennis Buettner, President of Leisure Technician LLC. His company which presents …
Terry Foster, Beer Writer
Posted by on Sunday, November 7, 2004 in - 3 comments
Terry Foster is one of my favorite beer writers and the most interesting thing about him as a beer writer these days is he does not have a website. I don't know how you can exist without a website these days. How else will all the Google bots be able to share your daily musings. Google …
<i>NYT</i> on IPA
Posted by on Sunday, October 24, 2004 in - leave a comment
Interesting audio visual presentation from the New York Times some India Pale Ales. Follow the links as directed.
News About Beer
Posted by on Friday, October 22, 2004 in - 4 comments
NYCO, my correspondent in Syracuse, alerted me to this Syracuse Post-Standard story about Polish beer. Written by Quill and Tankard award-winning writer, Don Cazentre, a staff writer with the paper, it notes what is new in the local market. • What a radical idea. Certainly in Canada, we are … read more »
