Blog Profile / Lautering
| URL : | http://lautering.com | |
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| Filed Under: | Food & Drink / Beer | |
| Posts on Regator: | 78 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.6 | |
| Archived Since: | December 15, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Dayman beer fights the Nightman — It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia gets its own beer
Stone and our favorite comedy It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia have combined minds to come up with Dayman, a coffee IPA that will help you fight the Nighman in your life. Dayman Coffee IPA is a collaboration with Illinois-based Two Brothers Brewing Co. and Chicago-based Aleman, a brewing collective that first made the beer earlier in the year [...]
What a 35 year-old beer tastes like
A reporter from the British publication The Press recently discovered a 1977 vintage "Jubilee Real Ale," which he decided to open and taste. Fortunately, it didn't kill him. In fact, it fooled some beer snobs who felt it may be from Scottish brewery Brewdog or even gypsy brewer Mikkeller. I wiped some of the dust from [...]
Heineken to cost $11.17 each at the Olympics
Sporting events have long been a place to get ripped off buying mediocore beer. It's not uncommon to pay $8-$9 for a drink, but you expect it and build it into the cost of going to a game. But pinnacle of sport, the Olympics, is reaching to be the pinnacle of beer pricing. Organizers are [...]
Craft beer sees more female brewers, consumers
As craft beer continues to grow, it continues to diversify. Unlike the old macrobreweries, built on advertising directed almost exclusively toward men, the notoriously open-minded craft beer world is seeing a growing role for women — both as consumers and brewers. From the LA Times: Being a female beer producer means standing out, said Rosemarie Certo, co-founder [...]
Weekend project: How-to build a high-tech fermentation fridge
It’s Memorial Day weekend and you have nothing to do but brew, drink, and eat. But you could make your future brewing a little more productive with the very clever — and slightly challenging — UberFridge. Homebrewer Elco Jacobs has posted a very detailed and easy-to-follow guide on how you turn an Arduino Nano and Asus [...]
How to fund your nanobrewery through Kickstarter
Erik Meyers from Mystery Brewing has done something few others have managed: he's successfully used social fundraising tool Kickstarter to fund, in part, his brewery. But, according to Meyers, it's not all sunshine and roses — and it may be impossible to replicate what he did. In a fantastic blog post, Meyers details exactly what [...]
China’s Sedrin beer gets odd endorsement from NBA’s Tracy McGrady
Remember the movie Lost in Translation? Bill Murray plays aging American actor (and famous person) Bob Harris, stuck in Japan to do an ad for Suntory whiskey. Well, replace the fictional famous person Bob Harris with nonfictional and aging Houston Rockets Star Tracy McGrady, and you’ve got the same basic setup here. Sedrin (or Xeujin) beer — [...]
old wood barrels from Stroh’s
In an interesting collaboration between old and new, Bell's Brewery in Michigan managed to buy some fantastic brewing equipment — along with a little history. John Stroh III, whose great-great-grandfather founded Stroh Brewing Co. in Detroit in 1850, and John Mallett, the production manager at Bell's Brewery Inc., had lunch together more than two years ago. During [...]
Clever high-tech pint glass will make you drink more stouts
Innovation in pint glasses tends to come in the form of shape or weight, though not much has changed in decades (save for the famous Sam Adams glass). But clever marketers came up with a brilliant way to make you want to fill your glass with a dark beer: screen a special QR code onto [...]
15 Great Beer Labels — Paste Magazine
Paste Magazine loves hip things, and there’s nothing hipper than craft beer and graphic design. They picked 15 craft beer designs that they love, and we have to agree.
Included in the list is the IPA can design for our friends at West Sixth Brewing in Lexington, Kentucky, along with some of craft beer’s standard best.
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Asheville, NC and Grand Rapids, MI share title of BeerCity USA
Charlie Papazian, word-famous beer lover, recently wrapped up his 2012 BeerCity USA poll. What he ended up with was BeerCities USA, a statistical tie between Asheville, NC and Grand Rapids, MI. From Papazian: Voting for the annual BeerCity USA poll is over. From the start it was clear that communities from several areas of the United States intended [...]
15 Great Vintage Beer Ads
One good thing macrobrewers have done with their monstrous marketing budgets is create some very memorable and enjoyable advertising. Over the years, the ads haven't been quite as slick. We pulled together 15 retro beer advertisements into this gallery to take a look back on what used to be.
For the weekend: Beer mustard recipe
As much as we like drinking beer, we like cooking with it too. If you're looking for a unique mustard to go with your beer brats this spring, try this beer mustard recipe.
Bizarre fake beer can meet all your television and movie prop needs
Shooting a movie but can't land that lucrative product placement deal? We've got your covered. Over at The Earl Hayes Press, you can find a wide assortment of fake beer bottles, cans, and packaging until one macrobrewer drops a few thousand in your lap.
Comedian David Cross wonders what’s wrong with Coors Light drinkers
Hilarious take on innovations in can design. Related posts:Have a Coors Light loving friend? Set an intervention for May 16-22, 2011 Japan makes beer the hard way (video) Jestem Piwowarem Domowym (in English, “I am a homebrewer”)
6 classic homebrewing myths busted
You can learn a lot from old hombrewers. But sometimes old myths don’t die. We pulled six myths from the homebrewing either and put them to rest. 1. Don’t use aluminum brewing pots. This myth just costs you money. Aluminum brew kettles work just fine — despite what you may read on message boards. They [...]
Read and share immediately: Budweiser accuses craft brewery of theft, slanders Calfkiller Brewing Company in Tennessee
Having a calm Monday? You won’t be after you read about how a Budweiser distributor in Tennessee is bullying a small-time brewer.
The war for tap space has been going for a long time, but Calfkiller Breweing Company is being attacked on a whole new level. From the brewery:
Grab your Kool aid kids and take a seat. Here’s the [...]
2012 World Beer Cup Winners Announced
Brewers from around the world received awards from an elite international panel of judges in the 2012 Brewers Association World Beer Cup. The ninth bi-annual competition boasted the strongest field of entrants on record, with 799 breweries from 54 countries and 45 U.S. states entering 3,921 beers in 95 beer style categories. A 17.7 percent increase over [...]
Chicago to see twelve — yes, twelve — new breweries. Can they all survive?
Opening a brewery has been a dream for many homebrewers for decades. With the drastically shifting marketplace away from macrobrewers and toward craft brewers, many have been able to open breweries and we’ve all benefited from greater variety in the marketplace.
But as we’ve argued before, the friendliness and openness of the craft beer world is coming under more pressure [...]
Spent Grain Dog Biscuit Recipe – Dog treats for brewers
It’s the weekend, and your dog is going to have to spend it watching you brew. To reward that kind of loyalty, give these spent grain dog treats a try.
Spent Grain Dog Biscuit Recipe
Makes 2-1/2 dozen medium sized dog cookies.
Ingredients
2 cups grain
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix ingredients [...]