No Blues For Oskar |
Goodybe Dogfish Head |
Dogfish Head Brewing (Delaware)has just announced that it is pulling out of 14 states or nearly half of its distribution area. In addtion their beer will no longer be available in the U.K. and Canada. According to Dogfish founder Sam Calagione they need all the beer they are brewing for their base market and are having difficulty in satisfying even demand. To do so would, as Mr. Calagione stated, "change the company in a way we do not want." The brewery said the decision "will allow us to still get many different, exotic, specialty and seasonal beers into our slightly smaller footprint. It will also ensure that more cases and kegs of our core, year-round beers will be available closer to home." States losing Dogfish include Tennessee, Indiana, Wisconsin and Rhode Island |
The trailblazer of the canned craft beer revolution, Oskar Blues Brewery in Colorado has continued its growth pattern posting an incredible 60 % increase in shipments in January 2011 vs. January 2010. Oskar Blues began the "Canned Beer Apocalypse" in 2002 when Dale's Pale Ale became America's first canned craft beer. Dale's Pale was named best beer in the US by the NY Times which futher fueled the brewery's growth. Throughout 2010 Oskar Blues demand exceeded supply. To meet this happy problem the brewery's immediate focus is in furthering its infrastructure. As such they have just installed a 200 BBL fermenter and a 200 BBL bright tank in the first of three capacity increases scheduled for this year. Oskar Blues also has four more 200 BBL fermenters scheduled for arrival in addition to installing a new keg line and Hi-Cone six-packing machine. The company has distribution in 25 states. In addition to Dale's Pale, Oskar Blues makes Gubna, Little Yellow Pils, Ten FIDY, G'Knight,and Old Chub. |
Beer Protects! Forget about taking toxic potassium iodide pills to stave off the effects of any lingering fallout from the imminent meltdown of Japan's reactors. Even if you could get the stuff (it's in notoriously short supply in the US from being bought up everywhere by Americans in a near-panic), it's only good for a last resort and may do nothing more than hasten your demise anyway. Get the beer cure! A report from Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences stated that they conducted an expirement concerning "beer drinking on radiation-induced chromosome aberrations in blood lymphocytes. Human blood that was collected either before or after drinking a 700 ml beer was in vitro irradiated with 200 kVp X rays or 50 keV/μm carbon ions. The relation between the radiation dose and the aberration frequencies (fragments and dicentrics) was significantly (p < 0.05) lower for lymphocytes collected 3 h after beer drinking than those before drinking. Fitting the dose response to a linear quadratic model showed that the alpha term of carbon ions was significantly (p < 0.05) decreased by beer drinking…. It is concluded that beer could contain non-ethanol elements that reduce the chromosome damage of lymphocytes induced by high-LET radiation.” We at BeerNexus are not quite sure what all that means but at least we can say, as Guinness often advertised, that beer is good for you! send contributions for On Tap to webmaster@beernexus.com |
QUICK HITS |
FLASH NEWS - FLASH NEWS - FLASH NEWS |