Hey buddy, wanna buy a beer company?

If you have some cash to burn, Pabst Blue Ribbon needs to be sold ASAP. The asking price is unknown but there isn’t exactly a line of intersted buyers. PBR is currently owned by the Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation which was set up after PBR’s owner, Paul Kalmanovitz, died in 1997. The IRS apparently doesn’t like [...]

Horn Dog Barley Wine Ep#019

Budweiser Goes Craft?

So Budweiser is doing a little bit of marketing shift and entering the craft beer market. They sent me a press kit For their new American Ale. Below is the press release, and the promotional video they sent. Can the big guys play in the Craft Market? Stay tuned for a tasting soon. Introduced: 2008 [...]

The Bender Beer Brewer

What do you get when you cross a super-creative, Futurama-lovin’ hacker with a beer lover? You get a life-size replica of Bender, everyone’s favorite “foul mouthed, cigar smoking, booze drinking, shiny metal [assed], bending robot,” that is also a fermenter for your home brew and talks as well! (Yes, that’s the TARDIS behind Bender. He [...]

A geek tasting Flying Dog’s In-Heat Wheat in the ‘The Nirvana Lager Glass’

On Sunday, a beautiful beer drinking Sunday at dusk, I had Flying Dog Brewery’s In-Heat Wheat Hefeweizen in the as-yet-unnamed glass from Samuel Adams Brewery. I have given the glass two names “my precious” and/or “The Nirvana Lager Glass,” while other names used for the glass are “The Perfect Pint Glass” and “The Boston Beauty.” [...]

The pedal-powered pub

Imagine cruising around town with up to 15 of your best buds, drinking beer in an open-air mobile pub. Sounds pretty cool, right? Unless you’re one of the schmucks that has to pedal the entire time. That’s the concept behind PedalPub. It’s basically a big, four wheel bicycle (quadcycle?) with a bar. Five of the [...]

Open a beer with a thumb drive

The USB stick CO from TrekStore combines a USB thumb drive with a bottle opener. I’m not sure if this should be filed under “Why didn’t I think of that?” or “What were they thinking?” The USB stick CO is a mobile data storage device in a solid, brushed aluminium housing. It is special because [...]

5 bottles of beer, 1 glass

Using the proper glass to consume your brew can make the difference between a good beer and a great one. This this $13, 11 inch tall, 4 inch wide XL Beer Glass, however, may be taking things a bit too far. It’s like a Tiki Bowl for beer! Well, this ridiculously large Beer Glass holds [...]

Subsequent to the lunacy the Perfect stout (A geek field tasting Beer)

Following about ten days of malicious and extraordinary insanity, my wife and I were finally able get a hold a moment where we could relax. My beautiful bride had the joyous and uncanny idea of visiting my favorite pub, Gaslight Brewery. The Gaslight, as we call it, is located a block northeast of the South [...]

The Evolution of Beer on Science Friday

Tomorrow (Friday, September 12) on Science Friday on NPR, they will be discussing the Evolution of Beer. Specifically they will be talking about new reasearch that has traced the genetic evoltion of beer yeast: In the world of beer, ales are separated from lagers by their yeast. Lager yeast collects on the bottom of the [...]