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A Canadian brewery has unveiled a limited edition beer that’s being sold for $1,000 a bottle. Vancouver’s Storm Brewing has unleashed its Glacial Mammoth Extinction brew It is Canada’ s first beer to boast a 25 % ABV. Brewer James Walton used his Imperial Flanders Sour Ale, then exposed it to temperatures of about minus-30 degrees Celsius over a month. The mix was then aged in French oak barrels for two years. Subjecting beer to subzero temperatures removes the water, so what is left is sugars, flavors and high alcohol The resulting beer tastes more like a port wine than a beer. Ten handmade limited edition bottles feature an ivory and 14 karat gold pendant The ivory used for these pendants is from a real mammoth tusk estimated to be 35,000 years old. The mammoth-tusked bottles are each $1,000. If you just want the beer the brewery is selling one liter growlers of it for $80 |
Anheuser-Busch has a new brew to float: A boozy root beer! Best Damn Root Beer, will be hitting stores and taps nationwide in early Jan., 2016. It is the first beer from the mega-brewer's new unit, Best Damn Brewing Co. The new beverage, a sweet ale aged on vanilla beans will weigh in at 5.5% alcohol by volume — that compares to 5% for traditional Budweiser . It's being positioned as a premium-priced product. Anheuser-Busch's Best Damn Brewing division has been working on the recipe since 2014.Boozy root beers have been a hit this year, with Not Your Father's Root Beer from Small Town Brewery of Wauconda , Ill., and Coney Island Hard Root Beer out of Brooklyn's Coney Island Brewing, both infiltrating shelves across the nation. Small Town's Not Your Father's Root Beer commands 80% of sales — and is the No. 3 ranked craft beer brand, according while Coney Island Hard Root Beer has 18%. Alcoholic root beers quickly emerged to have a significant impact on beer category sales in 2015. |
Calories Count- The FDA will mandate by Dec, 2016, that restaurant chains offer full nutritional information for beers on tap — everything from calorie counts to protein content. Tests to determine those costs more than $600 per brew and takes weeks. Stouts Soar-This November and December saw a huge increase in volume sales of stout over last year. The style was up 32.1%! Stale Beer - A bottle of beer made in 1893 has been discovered in Nova Scotia with an official Alexander Keith’s brewing insignia on it. The still has beer in it. That means the bottle, and the liquid inside, is nearly as old as Canada itself. Recall- An Australian beer company owned by SABMiller is recalling more than one million bottles of beer that could contain broken glass. Carlton Dry 355mL bottles with expiration dates of July 19 and 20, 2016. The recall was issued after complaints from customers about a chip at the top of the glass beer bottles, The company suspects the chip may have occurred during the bottling process |
Guinness Goes Veggie To make Guinness acceptable to vegetarian and vegan drinkers, the Irish brewer is changing the way it produces the popular creamy dark stout by eliminating fish bladder. Specifically, Guinness plans to swap isinglass, a gelatin made from fish bladders used to filter yeast particles from the finished product, with an animal-free method late next year. Isinglass has been used widely within the brewing industry as a means of filtration for decades," the company said in a statement. "However, because of its use we could not label Guinness as suitable for vegetarians and have been looking for an alternative solution for some time." The beer's listed ingredients -- barley, hops, yeast and water -- make it sound herbivorous. But traces of fish bladder can wind up in the finished product. The company did not give details about how it will replace isinglass. In previous statements, Guinness has said it was searching for a method that is "as effective or as environmentally friendly...whilst maintaining the quality of the liquid." Introducing a vegetarian-friendly product could open up Guinness's sales to a new market as competition from craft breweries has squeezed the beer industry. Guinness parent company Diageo cited microbrewery competition as a reason Guinness's draught sales weakened in 2015. Guinness beer is brewed at locations in 49 countries, but the new filtration method will only be used at the brewery in Ireland. Popular canned beers -- including most Anheuser-Busch, Heineken and Miller products -- have been deemed vegetarian friendly by Barnivore.com, which tracks animal ingredients in alcohol. Send contributions for On Tap to webmaster@beernexus.com |
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