Archive for the ‘Beer in the News’ Category

We would sure love to be in Charlotte this week.

The inaugural Charlotte Craft Beer Week, an ambitious 11-day event, is offering about 30 tastings and dinners – and even a beer school – from March 18-28 in locations throughout the Charlotte area. The event will bring some of the nation’s best brewers to the city – along with local and N.C. brewers – to talk about their craft. It could be the finest, most diverse beer gathering Charlotte has seen… Read more about the event!

You know Saint Patrick’s Day is around the corner when the green beer truck rolls into Tipperary Hill. On Sunday, the yearly tradition signaled the start of celebrations.

On Sunday, the yearly tradition signaled the start of the celebrations with Irish dancers, bagpipes and, of course, lots of people wearing green… Read the rest here!

A crowd of 5,000 packed the Fifth Third Ball Park this afternoon for the 5th Annual Michigan Winter Beer Festival. The tents were at capacity as beer enthusiasts tasted three hundred different kinds of craft brews from more than thirty five different breweries. Read the rest here!

You can make fun of our politeness, our insecurities or even the weird way some of us say “out.” But don’t you dare you insult two of the things that define us best: our hockey, and our beer.

That seems to be the sentiment online, where photos of our women’s hockey team celebrating with beer, champagne and cigars after their gold medal win Thursday night have spread like wildifre. Reports of the ladies’ on-ice celebration have appeared on hundreds of news websites across the globe, from The New York Times (“A toast to hockey gold, but at what cost?”) to the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph to Cigar Aficionado (seriously).

Paris Hilton is giving blonds a bad name. So says Brazil’s Secretariat for Women’s Affairs, which wants a sultry beer commercial starring the hotel heiress, model and actor off the air.

What do you think? Is it too sexy?

BGH is having another contest giving away more free beer. In honor of the new website features, and as a way to contribute towards your beer fund, we are going to give a $50.00 gift card for TGIF to the person who has the most “friends” by March 17th, 2009. That’s right whoever has the most friends (on your profile page) by 12PM EST time on St. Patrick’s day will get the free beer.

I was reading the Times Herald when I came across this. I love how someone reported, “alleged raunchiness” LOL

A Palmetto woman was charged with shoplifting a six-pack after she was found snoozing in a stall at Wal-Mart.

According to a Feb. 4 incident report, Newnan Police Officer Zachery Anderson went to the Wal-Mart store in Newnan Crossing East center on Bullsboro Drive to investigate a shoplifting report. A Wal-Mart employee told Anderson that when she went to check on some alleged raunchiness in the restroom, she discovered a female, later identified as Carrie Pierce, asleep in a stall. A carton of empty beer bottles was nestled next to her. Another partially full container of alcohol was also present.

So check this out, Kid Rock is going to have his own beer. I am not sure if I can bring myself to order one of these up, it just seems kind of cheesy. Anyway there is more, apparently a beermaker in webberville actually conned the state into giving him a tax break for creating a recipe for the new Kid Rock craft beer.

If you live or are heading to Alabama to visit you might want to be a bit careful when drinking. It appears a local grassroots  organization Free the Hops will have it their way. Thanks to a lot of work on their part a senate panel approved the sale of beer containing up to 13.9% it was originally capped at 6%.

This is pretty cool. Some scientists have mapped the DNA for several strains of yeast used in the brewing of beer.

Basically what this means is that brewers will be able to pick the best strains to create a more flavorful beer. I for one already love the taste of beer so I can only imagine what this will do to increase my consumption.