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Deep Ellum Brewing: A first look
Written by Paul Higthtower for Examiner.com
Dallas has never been kind to craft breweries. The last one packed up around 2006 (bonus points if you can name who that was) and Dallas has remained for years the largest Texas city without a home-grown production brewery. But a new place is setting up shop right now down in the Deep Ellum district named none other than Deep Ellum Brewing Company.
Spearheaded by local craft beer enthusiast John Reardon, the enterprise is well under way with shiny new equipment being installed as we speak. Not without some troubles and setbacks recently, Reardon finally acquired industrial space for his microbrewery on the south end of the Deep Ellum district, including room to expand and empty lots nearby for outdoor events.
Deep Ellum has slowly been introducing its brand to Dallas with some local beer-centric events (as well as online), most recently last month at a “Brew-B-Q†featuring catered ‘cue and free samples of beer. With the hiring of head brewer Drew Huerter earlier this year—who brings experience from St. Louis-area production breweries and taprooms, including Schlafly—everything is finally coming together as a real brewery takes shape.
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Brew Biz: Werts and All
Ken Carman is a BJCP judge; homebrewer since 1979, club member at Escambia Bay and Music City Homebrewers, who has been interviewing professional brewers all over the east coast for over 10 years.
Brew Biz is a column written by Ken Carman for Professor Goodales
The Topic: Beer Priests vs. Gurus of Greed
I have never done this before: exported one of my beer columns over to my political/social commentary column that I have written since 1972: Inspection. But this topic is that important.
I am a BJCP beer judge, homebrewer and fan of fine beer; since about the same year: 72. Before that I thought all beer was Bud or Miller-like, not that there’s much of a dif between the two. One uses corn as an adjunct, one uses rice. And, in fact, in America: especially on the east coast, that’s all there mostly was… with few exceptions: Bud and Miller products. The indes, like in the auto industry before that, were dying, going or gone. And the Adirondacks, where I mostly did my drinking, were not home to oddities like Prior Double Dark or the Bock beer that did exist, un-Bock-like that most of it was.
Now, in addition to what I’ve already mentioned, I run two beer tastings in Beaver River Station, NY that involve beer education. I pay for the beer, the ads I run and until last year I didn’t even put out a donation bucket. And, to add to all this, I supply a good portion of the beer for Big Bob’s Barleywine Bash in Pensacola Beach; weekend after Labor day, every year. Again: out of pocket.
To make it worse my wife and I travel as far as Albany, NY and Charlotte, NC to judge beer in BJCP competitions.
Last year Frank, down the lake, at the Stillwater shop asked me, “Why? What’s in it for you? I try to make everything I do make money: feed back into the business.”
This year I was asked the same, basic, question by Barry who now owns the Beaver River Station Hotel: site of the Labor Day weekend beer tasting.
It dawned on me then that this meme’: that everything, every decision, anything we do in life, must make money or be advantageous to the doer, is perhaps part of the problem with attitudes these days. Just like everything must agree with a certain take on life, politics or faith, or “that means war:” sometimes literally. And I was once part of the problem when it came to having that attitude in my own chosen career.
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“Personal Brewery” Produces Beer in Seven Days
A bit pricey and decent beer normally takes more than 7 days: conditioning. Plus regular homebrew gear can be had for a lot less.-PGA
Written by Ben Coxworth for gizmag.com and Popular Science
Ian Williams and and Anders Warn, with the WilliamsWarn beer brewing machine.
Home beer-brewing is sort of like writing a novel – although you might like the idea of having done it, the thought of all the work involved in doing it can be off-putting. If the PR materials are to be believed, however, the WilliamsWarn brewing machine could make the process a lot easier … and quicker. Unlike the four weeks required by most home brewing systems, it can reportedly produce beer in just seven days.
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MGD 64 Lemonade Dies An Early Death
(The Professor is a little short on taste bud tolerance this century, so he’ll skip this one-PGA)
Written by Chris Morran for consumerist.com
Earlier this year, the MillerCoors marketing machine decided that people really wanted a lemonade version of its successful MGD 64 low-calorie beer. Alas, there must have been a mistake in the algorithm and after only a few months on shelves, the beverage is no more.
“Winning in beer requires testing the bounds of the market with innovation,” MillerCoors president of sales wrote earlier today in an email to MillerCoors distributors. “With that commitment, however, comes a recognition that not every innovation will succeed. That is the case with MGD 64 Lemonade, so we have decided to discontinue this line extension.”
If you happen to like this particular beverage, you’ll want to hit up the store now, as Miller plans to buy back whatever existing retail stock it can. Which makes us wonder what they’re going to do with it when they get it back to Miller HQ.
Joe Sixpack: In the Narrow Category of Worst Beer, a Fresh Contender
Written by Joe Sixpack (Don Russell) for philly.com
ASK ME THE WORST beer I’ve ever had, and the answer was always easy: Stegmaier Gold Medal.
This was back in the 1970s. The case of 12-ounce cans was smuggled into a dorm room inside a leather suitcase, and we began popping them open before they were sufficiently iced.
It tasted like hay. Or, more accurately, hay that had been cut, baled and then used as bedding for incontinent goats. The rancid flavor lingers to this day and, as I said, it was the worst I’d ever tasted.
Until last week, when I swallowed a mouthful of MGD 64 Lemonade.
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