Such a great cartoon – so tired of brewers talking about themselves as “punk”. Punk Beer https://t.co/15FoNdJA49 pic.twitter.com/UySPs7ThdF — Stephen Collins (@stephen_collins) February 20, 2016 Good Food – BentSpoke’s 20-chilli beer […]
Under the Influence – The Unauthorised Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey Simon and Schuster Back in 1991 when this book was published, I’m sure it caused quite […]
Ambitious Brew – The Story of American Beer Maureen Ogle Harcourt (2006) Chances are you’ve heard the story about US mega-brewers like Anheuser-Busch made their beer as cheap as possible through the […]
Seems the Anheuser Busch brewery was so popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s, that someone decided to write a song about it. So for your dubious listening pleasure, I present […]
While the idea of an almost totally alcohol-free beer-like substance is largely mocked, it saved a number of breweries during the dark days of Prohibition. Called “non-alcoholic beer” in Australia, near beer […]
Bitter Brew William Knoedelseder This book is about the rather messed-up family behind Anheuser-Busch – the makers of Budweiser. And it’s a pretty good read (aside from the odd error, such as […]
Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer Maureen Ogle Harcourt In an earlier post, I wrote about the oddness of Pabst Blue Ribbon including this blurb on their cans – ‘‘Selected as […]
A few days ago I read this post about the phrase ‘‘craft beer’’ from Luke at Ale of a Time. On Twitter he had apologised for what he called an unedited rant, […]
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