| Belgium's Best Since 1882, Lambic Beers have been brewed at the Belgian Oud Beersel brewery using time-honoured techniques. In 2009, 127 years after its foundation, its Oude Geuze beer was voted the world's best Lambic/Geuze beer. Oude Gueuze (6% alc. vol.) is a blend of Lambics from different years. Other winners in the "Best of The World" judging: Brasserie St Feuillien’s Saison (6.5%) was voted World’s Best Saison. Brasserie de Brunehaut took the first prize in two categories: World’s Best Biere de Garde with its Mont-Saint- Aubert (8%) and World’s Best Abbey (Dark) with its St. Martin Dark (8%). Blanche de Namur (4.5%) by Brasseried du Bocq was recognized as both World’s Best Wheat Beer and World’s Best Grain Only Wheat Beer. Oud Beersel brewery won international recognition for its Oud Kriek (6.5%) and O ude Geuze (6%) – as World’s Best Kriek and World’s Best Lambic/Gueuze respectively. Coors Light did not place. |
| Bud Light Nixed By Colleges Thirsty University of Georgia and Georgia Tech fans are out of luck, as both schools have informed Anheuser-Busch they oppose plans to market Bud Light beer cans emblazoned with the schools’ colors (red and black for Georgia, gold and white for Tech). “We are concerned about any activity that might promote alcohol abuse by students,” said James Fetig, Tech’s Associate Vice President for Communications and Marketing. Ironically, Georgia Tech’s band plays the Budweiser theme song at the end of the third quarter of football games. Fans lustily sing along to the chorus, “When you say Budweiser, you’ve said it all.” More than two dozen other schools have joined Tech and Georgia in opposing the Bud Light campaign, though administrators at LSU and Texas have allowed it. No word on what other colors colleges claim they exclusively own. |
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| Gluten Free Beer Gets Label OK When is a beer not a beer? When it's gluten-free. Beers brewed the traditional way, with malted barley, contain gluten. But small craft brewers and then Anheuser-Busch began making beer from malted sorghum, an African grain, and sometimes rice. Both are gluten free. That was great for celiacs but didn't fit in the Federal Alcohol Administration Act of 1935's definition of beer, which was a beverage brewed from malted barley and other grains. So beverages made in that was didn't count as beer under the government regs. Now the FDA has issued a new ruling on the issue. To the benefit of the one in 133 Americans who can't eat anything containing gluten, these beverages can now officially be labeled gluten-free beer once they've been tested and confirmed by FDA. "For the longest time I couldn't put gluten-free on the label, because there wasn't a definition" under TTB regulations, says Russ Klisch, whose Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee makes a sorghum beer, New Grist. New Grist sales are growing about 35% a year. Sorghum beer has a slightly different flavor from normal beer, with a twang that some describe as "spicy citrusy." "If you ever have a Belgian beer, th is is somewhat similar to a Belgian beer," Klisch says. |
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