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

Kind of a provocative title… but that’s what Men’s Journal has published: Best Beers in the World. It’s a bold list; I don’t know about their categorization (Lagers & Pilsners, Ales & Bitters, Belgian Beers, Dark Beers and Summer Beers)—I’d be more inclined to rate based on actual style (best … Continue reading

Via Hail the Ale! comes this fun link: Beer in 78 languages. Some artificial languages, too. Arabic — beereh (biræ)Chinese (Mandarin) — pi jiuEsperanto — bieroHawaiian — piaJapanese — biiruRussian — pivo "Pivo" appears not only in Russian, but in Azerbaijani, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, and Ukrainian as … Continue reading

Strange, but true: Tomato-based beer now on shelves. I’m not sure what to make of it. Yearlong efforts by a Niigata brewery and a Tokyo izakaya pub owner have finally borne fruit: Their tomato-based, low-malt beer is now on the shelves. Called Tomato Bibere, the reddish brew has a characteristic … Continue reading

Slashfood beat me to the punch and points to a BeerAdvocate article on Thanksgiving beer pairings. Hors d’oeuvre HourKick things up a notch with a moderate level of hops. The hoppy characters in Pale Ales will pair nicely with salads, a slew of cheese varieties, fruits, and many hors d’oeuvres, … Continue reading

Pfiff! has a fun post on one of the strongest of beers, Samichlaus. Unlike most beers that strive for this level of strength, Hürlimann’s crown jewel is not highly hopped, resulting in a brew that (when drank young) is seriously sweet, rich, and chewy, to the point where you wouldn’t … Continue reading

This is very cool: this site is being used as a news source for Topix.net, a news aggregator site that pulls news from sources all over the web—and just added blogs recently as a source. I saw my Stone Age Beer article show up on the Topix.net Beer News page … Continue reading

Follow-up from my earlier post about Bad Elf Beer: the state of Connecticut approved the Bad Elf. The department determined that although state regulations bar alcohol advertising with images that might entice kids, including images associated with Santa Claus, the regulations do not apply to beer labels…. At a compliance … Continue reading

Well, it’s pretty debatable (to me, at least) whether this "fermented coffee beverage" can be truly called beer, but that’s apparently how it’s being marketed. Or something. New Scientist has the article. Nestec, part of the Nestlé empire in Switzerland, has filed patents in every major market round the world … Continue reading