Month: November 2012

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Is Pot Beer on the Horizon in Light of Colorado Marijuana Legalization?

Written by David Young for coloradoan.com

A beer that will get you drunk and high sounds like a lethal combination, but it could be bubbling up in your neighbor’s garage.

With the move by voters to legalize adult marijuana possession, cultivation and sales in Colorado as part of Amendment 64 Tuesday, the likelihood of pot beer is out of the question for commercial brewers, but already in the works by homebrewers.
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Colorado Offers Beers to Pair with Marijuana Legalization

Written by Evan Benn for stltoday.com

The label art for Wynkoop Brewing Co.’s Metacool Maltuwanna
After Colorado voters on Tuesday passed that state’s marijuana-legalizing Amendment 64, Denver’s alt-weekly wasted no time rounding up five beers with not-so-subtle references to being, well, a mile high.

Denver Westword Beer Man Jonathan Shikes came up withthis list of 420-friendly beers:
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And The Funk Was Embraced

Written by Brandon Jones for embracethefunk.com


Maybe the Mayans were right and 2012 is indeed it because I’m not sure I could have a better beer weekend than this past one. Everything from Chad Yakobson’s awesome talk – to me winning best of show – to a late night Waffle House group run that included “chocolate-peanut butter-bacon-maple syrup covered pecan waffles”… with a side of bacon. Yep it was that kind of weekend.

Chad Yakobson’s Brettanomyces Presentation

The annual competition weekend started off with a bang this year. An awesome catered dinner by one of the best BBQ guys around serving up Ribs and Brisket. The guest speaker this year wasChad Yakobson of Crooked Stave in Denver, Colorado. Fresh off a Great American Beer Festival win Chad dropped some serious knowledge during his talk. The talk mostly centered around Brettanomyces…facts vs fiction and how to get the most out of Brett in your brewing process. Topics such as their barrel aging/foudre process, brewing with bacterias, mixed fermentations with Sacchromyces strains, and classic Saisons were also covered during the 60 minute talk.

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