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Lift a glass to Craft Beer Week (The Charlotte Observer)

HardCoded — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:08:30 +0000

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!

We would also like to give a big shout out to Rick Lyke who helped his brother come up with this invent, but more importantly is the founder of Pints for Prostates!

Green beer arrives on Tipp Hill (WSYR 9 Syracuse)

HardCoded — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:12:09 +0000

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!

Winter Beer Fest Draws Thousands (FOX 17 Grand Rapids)

HardCoded — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:46:14 +0000

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!

Don’t mess with Canada’s hockey or beer (Slam! Sports)

HardCoded — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:31:41 +0000

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).

But the overwhelming opinion online seems to be that everyone should relax and grab a cold one. Most international media outlets – even the crabby Brits – have taken the high road and avoided outright criticism of the girls, while Joe and Jane web-surfer are rallying to Team Canada’s defence.

“It’s not like the girls were having an orgy on the ice. They were celebrating their well-deserved win,” wrote a user calling herself Karen in Los Angeles, commenting on an NBCsports.com poll that asks, “Did the Canadian women’s hockey team go overboard in their celebration?”

Nearly two-thirds of the poll’s respondents have said no…

Read the rest of the article here.

Brazil beer ad starring Paris Hilton stirs controversy

HardCoded — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:36:25 +0000

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.

Click here to view the embedded video.

What do you think? Is it too sexy?