Entries tagged ‘beer’

Have you been tempted one too many times to pick up the “bag-o-beer” maker down at the WalMart? What stopped you? Well, you probably realized that if God had intended you to be able to make beer in a week, that he would have been doing some serious drinking while resting on the seventh day. If you’re thinking of brewing your own, put down those plastic brew impostors and read through our brew master’s article. The hardest part is naming your brew.

Forget the hair of the dog, wash away your morning hangover with a bar of beer from the Beer Soap Company.

Americans may be cutting back their expenses to weather the turbulent economy, but they’re still drinking craft beer. As sales of many products are tanking, craft beer makers are seeing slow, but still-strong sales increases as they outperform the rest of beer industry.

Not that we don’t already celebrate St. Paddy’s day like the ordained father of all holiday’s, but this time of the year Guinness hauls out it’s campaign to promote Proposition 3-17, a mission to get one million signatures on their petition to make St. Patrick’s Day an official holiday.

If you’re a beer drinker, an investor, or a breathing human with an email account, you have likely received this note that you should have invested in beer instead of banks and return the cans for cash.

Anheuser-Busch pulled the plug on it’s $15 million broadband humor site Bud.tv. Visitors to the site now see only a snowy TV screen saying Bud.tv is no longer available.

For St. Patrick’s Day every year the buddies got together and honor our favorite saint by drinking ourselves into a stupor that would make any off-the-boat Irishman proud.

I have had a good deal of Murphy’s Irish Red in my day- and in my nights. For the most part it’s been the draft version as served in a dark, dank Irish Pub. It’s dry, crisp and hoppy with a rich red hue.

A few years back, we spent ten days drinking and driving our way around beautiful Ireland (on the wrong side of the road, we may add). We summarized the trip with this two minute short film… hope you enjoy toilet bowls.

Here’s a fun video by way of Denmark, which according to Google translate “Involving a hulens mass beer bottles, a handful of mathematicians, Uls sleeping bags, all our undlingsfrebar café and absolute ingen, I repeat ingen offensive symbols!”

Fairly green brewery Sierra Nevada just worked out a deal to turn beer by-products into fuel for their fleet of bio-friendly trucks using a fridge-sized refinery made by a company called E-fuel.

Are you a straight-from-the-bottle beer bottle drinker or do you like unique beer glasses? Or like me, are you a little of both? The Hopside Down glass gives you the look of drinking from a bottle that is upside- er, Hopside™ down.

U.S. troops in Iraq will be allowed to drink two beers apiece for the Super Bowl, after the U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. Ray Odierno, issued a waiver of the U.S. military’s strict prohibition on alcohol imbibing in the war zone.

MillerCoors is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the recyclable aluminum can. After many prototypes and several years in development, the first aluminum cans rolled off the line at the Coors Golden brewery on Jan. 22, 1959.

I have completely hijacked this Corned Beef recipe to make it my own! After 10 years of making it, I know how to do it right.