The Brew SiteThis is very cool: Oregon & Washington Brew Map, a Google Maps-enabled live map based on listings of all the known breweries in the two states. Pretty comphrensive, but I do have a few comments: some of the locations are off (the ones I can point to for sure are … Continue reading
Over on Slashfood today a couple of beer posts caught my eye. The first, Beer: it’s a diet food, right?, speculates on beer health marketing in light of a recent FDA announcement: According to a recent FDA announcement, "whole grain barley and barley-containing products are allowed to claim that they … Continue reading
There’s a post on Metroblogging Portland about the history of McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern. It’s a highly compressed version, but I still enjoyed it. Don’t forget to read the comments, too. Opened in the Prohibition-afflicted 1920s as a grocery and a feed store for farmers. Served beer in 1933 about … Continue reading
Just like on my other blog, it’s the year end wrapup for all the data. I’m a bit surprised by the numbers I reached here; for only ramping The Brew Site up (as a blog) just over a year ago, these seem to be pretty impressive. On to it! Number … Continue reading
For Christmas I got two specialty bottles of Rogue beer, each 1 pint 10 ounces in resealable ceramic bottles (like Grolsch). I opened one of them up today: Morimoto Imperial Pilsner. The review summary: I liked it! First, an oddity: there was no carbonation to the beer to speak of; … Continue reading
Here’s a fun little first-of-the-year account (or end-of-the-year, depending on how you look at it) of something you rarely get in commercial beers: excessing foaming. I had a bottle chilled to about 45 degrees and when opened, foam immediately started spilling out of the bottle. I quickly got it into … Continue reading