Boston Beer Company, the makers of Samuel Adams and other adult beverages, announced today it plans to roll out its latest offering by the end of this week, an Amber IPA. “Let’s face it,” said Boston Beer Co. communications specialist James Cooke, “Ambers are the Tuesday of the beer world. They’re not great like a…
To follow up on my post questioning the value of the Brewer Association’s statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed rule on handling spent grain, today the Beer Institute issued a press release detailing its efforts to address the issue. The Beer Institute is a national trade association representing brewers, importers, and industry supplies.…
The importance of having a safe food supply cannot be debated. The best means for providing one can be debated a thousand ways. While beer has been credited with saving the world, it might be safe to say few of us directly connect beer to food safety issues. That changed recently when the Food and…
News broke this week that the Motley Fool deemed Montana the most “beer friendly state.” Predictably, beer centric blogs, trade associations and your average Montana beer lover tweeted the news or posted it on facebook with giddy abandon. Even local news outlets picked up the story. Factors used to rank the states for their beer…
You may recall my recent mini-rant about a photo I saw in our local Safeway grocery store depicting “a better beer aisle” coming soon as part of a store-wide refreshing. If not, read up here. The photo depicted a sign I’d hoped was for illustration purposes only. I also pondered what “categories” Safeway intended to…
Anybody know what we’re supposed to call “beer” these days? I ask not because I want to dive back into the craft versus crafty debate. No, it’s because I came across this sign while picking up a few items at my local Safeway one evening last week: According to the sign, we should be looking…
We like to complain about our brewery laws here in Montana (often for good reason), but it is easy to forget Montana does have it better that some. Montana breweries have long been allowed to fill growlers of any size and type for off-premise consumption. Even the sale of beer for on-premise consumption has been…
This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Oliver Gray, creator and author of the award winning blog Literature and Libation. For the 84th Session, he asks us to branch out. As Oliver notes, many beer bloggers (and I’ll add beer lovers in general) tend to get caught up in the cataloging of beer via incessant…
Did you catch that one? Among the many good and not so good commercials during yesterday’s Super Bowl telecast was a rather odd one from Chrysler featuring Bob Dylan. Dylan starts it off by asking, “Is there anything more American than America?” If that one stumps you, Bob follows it up with a series of…
Kids these days are spoiled. They don’t remember a world without good beer. For them, multiple tap handles pouring a rainbow of colors infused with deeply charged flavors is an entitlement. Aromas, too! It’s gotten to a point where noses are turned up at any bar not featuring at least two sour rosehip mesquite smoked…