87,000 are reported to getting “glassed” by unruly UK bar patrons (reported, I’m sure this rises above 100,000 a year) which is … well, a lot! Rather than reduce the cause of these incidents, some UK glass makers have decided to embrace their scrappy culture and just redesign pint glasses to reduce breakage. Margaret Ryan …
In the beginning, there was a long line for Judgment Day ale. Shortly after the doors opened on the 27th Great American Beer Festival, a crowd congregated at the booth offering that and other pours from The Lost Abbey of San Marcos, California, where the tap handle is a Celtic cross and the legacy of …
Anheuser-Busch, the largest brewing company in the US has agreed to sell itself to the Belgian brewer InBev (brewer of brands Leffe, Becks, Bass, Stella Artois, Brahma, Hoegaarden, & Staropramen) for about $52 billion, the two companies confirmed today [NY Times reporting], putting control of the nation’s largest beer maker (new name being announced as …
Our generation grew up with video games. At the arcade, pizza joint, at your friends house that has the better controller… Through college games became the distraction from school work, the prep before going out, the alternative to a bogus party, the wind down from the night out or like some of us a focus …
I moved to New York several years after the ban on drinking in the bleachers of Yankee Stadium, and to a fan of the game from when I could lift a bat through my legal drinking age, I didn’t understand the reasoning. I heard the fight stories and am very familiar with those as an …
You have to appreciate a brand that will make public announcements before an actual customer incident is found. In this case, quality control tests caught some chards in bottles of Sam Adams and they are recalling some beer. I can’t imagine that this bottle supplier only supplies bottles to Sam Adams… whom else is on …
Drinking tapped brew at home has always been appealing, however, you can’t always have 50+ friends over every time you want the fresh brew taste of a keg. Heineken has just stepped up and made this a little more manageable, introducing the Heineken/Krups BeerTender, available next week. Designed especially for those Heineken draft kegs you’ve …
Drink your way to a slimmer figure you ask, oh yes, the liquid diet! Most light beers save only about 20 to 50 calories per bottle — and some even outweigh regular beers. It’s mostly marketing, says Garrett Oliver, Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster and author of The Brewmaster’s Table. Want maximum taste, minimum guilt? Consult Men’s …
We at GPC are beer drinkers, which doesn’t necessarily qualify you enough to be a beer rater, so we deffer this to others to accomplish and we’ll take their word for it. Beer Advocate is a notable site we check, and if you haven’t checked it, feel free to hit them up. Their Top 100 …
According to this Fox News story, a study found that beer after exercise helps a person quench thier thirst and replenish carbs/calories from the work out. Rest of story is also here: Having a beer after exercise could do you more good than drinking water, a new study suggests. Beer can help someone who has …