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“Because some marketeers will do anything to avoid focusing on making better beer.”
The public knows little about good beer. What to do. What to do. Ah, this guy knows! Make a stupid gimmick: a device that makes your bottle float in mid air. What’s next, making scalpels that also serve as bottle openers? Surgeon to nurse: “Did you see where that cap went when it popped off? Oh. see, now it foamed over. We’ll never get all that out. We’ll just close up; he won’t know the difference.”
Not sure this would sell anything. Funny, or not?
Sure, the Soviets had the first cosmonaut and the Americans won the moon. But leave it to the Japanese to brew the first space beer in history. Called Space Barley, it uses barley grown in the International Space Station.
Made with the collaboration of the breweries, Okayama University, and the Russian Academy of Science, the Space Barley is made only of barley and has no additives. And even while Adam says that it must taste like metal and loneliness, and Jason says that it probably comes out of Bender’s ass, I would like to try it. Or precisely because of that.
Sadly, Sapporo has only made 100 litres of this extra-terrestrial beer with a 5.5% alcohol content, which will only be available for a limited tasting in Japan. [AFPBB (Japanese) — Thanks Mona]
Dutch brewer Heineken is set to expand their global operations with the purchase of one of the largest beer businesses in Latin America.
Continue reading “Mexican Heineken?”
Nashville, TN area
Hi club-
Below are the nominations for the 2011 MCB officers. The floor is still open to nominate someone or yourself. Elections will be at the February meeting.
Thanks
Brandon
Nominated:
President- Chris Rueger
Vice President-Brandon Jones
Treasurer- Steve Johnson
Secretary- Millie Carmen
Burgermeister- Gil Cupp
Communications-?
Please follow the link below for the results of Fugettaboutit 2010. Congrats to Phil Snyder for his 1st Place BOS win with His English Copper ale (Category 8A). Also congrats to the other MCB members for their wins.
http://www.barleymob.com/fugetaboutit/2010.php
Jonathan
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Club-
I was thrilled to see MCB’s strong showing at the Barley Mob competition! Nice job to everyone who took home a medal.
Continue reading “Club Update: Music City Brewers”
Not actual picture of solar cells used
The second Fort Collins brewery in less than a week has launched a photovoltaic solar electrical system to utilize the sun’s rays to help make beer.
Mere days after New Belgium Brewing Co. launched the largest privately owned PV solar array in Colorado, Odell Brewing Co. activated its own solar array Thursday.
Continue reading “Odell Brewing rolls toward sustainability by activating its own solar array”
Misery Bay
Erie Brewing
IPA
Erie, Pennsylvania
6.5%
I am very familiar with these brewers. They used to be in the old train station in Erie when they had a brewpub. Now a fine brewpub called The Brewerie occupies that location. Expect a Brew Biz on it probably sometime this year.
Most of Erie Brewing’s beers are OK, but pushing any envelope? Big stand outs in craft brewing in any sense? Eh, hell no would be an appropriate response to both questions, at least the last time I had one: and I have had several including their signature beer, Mad Anthony. Not impressed. But I must admit; it’s been a while and I have never had their IPA… until now.
I was surprised.
Cascade nose up front with definite caramel sense. Mid-gold color. Less dark than smell would insinuate… you would think all this caramel-like malt sense would “brown” the quaff more than this… at least a bit of very light brown, or tan. Carmel mouthfeel with moderate carbonation. Clings to roof of mouth. Head dies soon.
Taste: lots of carmelization. Seems heavy body-wise/mouthfeel at first, but drops off fast. Not knocked over, but probably best beer had from these brewers I’ve ever had.
I recommend it.
I believe Misery Bay might be where the colonials hid their ships on the eastern side of Presque Isle where they couldn’t be seen when being chased by the Brits, They hauled them by hand across the peninsula that sticks quite a few miles into Lake Erie. That left the Brits wondering what magic trick had made our ships disappear.
It is a pleasure to drive and walk the beach on the western side these days, but I suspect when the colonials kept disappearing as they chased them around the western side the King might have considered Presque more of a curse. Or maybe some huge middle finger lifted right in the face of the British.
It also serves as a graveyard for many patriots.
From Examiner.com You can follow this series there, but please check out other sources, like bjcp.org for taste evaluations, defects and judging standards. This should provide a more complete picture.
(Prof. GA- Is it possible the Examiner missed printing part of this article? Some spaces were blank and descriptions incomplete or somewhat askew. But the information is still interesting.)
Several quantitative variables differentiate one beer from another helping to define beer styles.
During the 1980s and early 90s analytical variables measured by Professor Anton Piendl of the Institut für Bräuerei-Technologie und Mickrobiologie der Technischen Universität München at Weihenstephan established a baseline for identifying beer style characters. More than 500 different beers were analyzed. The data helped American Homebrewers Association and Brewers Association begin its work more than 25 years ago to help develop its current guidelines for beer types. Professor Piendl’s work was published over a 13 years period in the 1980s and 1990s in the German brewing journal Brauindustrie. Here is a list of the values he measured.
Continue reading “Beer Styles: What Do Beer Scientists Evaluate?”
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