A place for interesting beer-related articles.

[john mills]

The rebirth of PBR
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39291932/ns ... inessweek/

[Dwayne_Delaney]

News on bee colony collapse.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/scien ... .html?_r=1

[sirgiovanni]

Thanks man! Let's hope this helps set a path to save them.

[john mills]

Now if those same scientists could turn their attention to creating hop cones the size of pineapples, and barley kernels the size of ears of corn!
No need to worry about yeast. The planet is covered with it already.

[Dwayne_Delaney]

Local Hops!

www.courierpress.com/news/2010/oct/18/crooks-family/

[Don]

Where not to go for beer.

[john mills]

I could see where that would leave a bad taste in your mouth.

[Michael Erwin]

I could see where that would leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Following up...

http://www.bungholeliquors.com/history/ ... &Itemid=26

as they say, "We're not #1 Butt we're right up there!"

[Don]

Thanks Michael, I stand corrected. Interesting history.

[john mills]

Distributors are the middlemen trying to stick it in further to both customers and producers, while preventing competition at the same time.
http://m.courierpress.com/news/2010/nov ... -industry/

[sirgiovanni]

F'n leaches is all they are!

[Don]

I don't know if this is interesting or a gimmick but I saw a commercial for Miller Lite now with a Vortex neck bottles.
http://www.examiner.com/craft-beer-in-a ... tex-bottle


Perhaps the most interesting—and arguably the most inane—is the new Vortex Bottle being introduced for Miller Lite. According to a report from Brandweek, the MillerCoors rep told distributors that the bottle has specially designed grooves inside the neck that “create a vortex as you’re pouring the beer,” and said that the brand’s goal is to “create buzz and excitement and give consumers another reason to choose Miller.” No explanation of how the “vortex” created by the grooves improves the beer in any way;

Will we be able to use these bottles for competition?

[john mills]

If there are actually grooves in the bottle, I do believe that will help Miller Lite taste better. The groves should cause more turbulence, creating more nucleation sites for all that co2 to come out of solution more, allowing the little malt flavor that is in the beer to come through more.

[Chris Norrick]

Will we be able to use these bottles for competition?

You can, but they will "accidentally" get pushed off the edge of the table.

[Don]

Looks like I have to do some rebottling when I get home tonight.