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| Hoosier Hostility to Beer |
| Indiana remains one of only 14 states that bars the sale of liquor on Sunday -- and is one of only three states, along with Georgia and Connecticut -- that does so despite letting bars, restaurants and sports venues serve alcoholic drinks on any day of the week. And even if you could buy beer at your grocery store on Sunday, you couldn't buy it cold. Indiana is the only state in the nation to regulate beer temperatures, limiting cold beer sales to package liquor stores. A fight to change the law is due in the new session of the state legislature. Fee free to join more than 51,000 Hoosiers have gone to a special website -- www.changeitIndiana.org -- to urge these anti-beer laws be overturned. |
In partnership with the monks at the Abbey of New Clairvauxmonks (CA), Sierra Nevada next year will release an ale that pays tribute to the renowned Trappist beers of Europe. The brew also will be a boost to New Clairvaux, with the company pouring some of the venture's profits into the monastery reconstruction project after a fire nearly destroyed their historic abbey which is entirely build with bricks from the Santa Maria de Ovila monastery about 90 miles northeast of Madrid.. Sierra Nevada will also train Father Thomas X. Davis, New Clairvaux's 77-year-old abbot emeritus, as a "sensory professional" -- a beer taster. The 23 monks at the rustic abbey north of Chico, Calif., are seasoned winemakers but, until now all they knew of beer was how, on occasion, to drink it. At Sierra Nevada's headquarters in Chico, 20 miles south of the abbey, executives have been keeping an eye on the progress. Neither the abbey nor the brewery says how much money the ale will generate. At about $10 per champagne-style bottle, that's up to consumers who have a taste for Belgium or a soft spot for medieval monastic history."Who knows?" Father Davis said with a smile. "It depends on how much |
Sierra Nevada Banned - Red Buff High School (CA) has banned the
wearing of Sierra Nevada sweat shirts. According to principal John Gleason " I
realize the shirts are about more than beer, Sierra Nevada is more of community
to many in our area but we have a school rule against any beer related shirt so
these must go too." Said one student in response, "I don't see how wearing a
sweat shirt will make us all go out and drink beer."
Sam Scores the Bucks- The Boston Beer Company, Inc. expects its 2010
earnings to be a record $3.30 to $3.60 per share. That translates to an increase
in earnings of approximately 12% which continues the phenominal growth and
success of the company and their Sam Adams brand.
Free Beer for Troops - Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan were
given free beer for Christmas after a bitter backlash against plans to charge
them $5 per can. Defence Minister Stephen Smith now says the soldiers in
Afghanistan will be given two beers for free if their local commanders agree to it.
wearing of Sierra Nevada sweat shirts. According to principal John Gleason " I
realize the shirts are about more than beer, Sierra Nevada is more of community
to many in our area but we have a school rule against any beer related shirt so
these must go too." Said one student in response, "I don't see how wearing a
sweat shirt will make us all go out and drink beer."
Sam Scores the Bucks- The Boston Beer Company, Inc. expects its 2010
earnings to be a record $3.30 to $3.60 per share. That translates to an increase
in earnings of approximately 12% which continues the phenominal growth and
success of the company and their Sam Adams brand.
Free Beer for Troops - Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan were
given free beer for Christmas after a bitter backlash against plans to charge
them $5 per can. Defence Minister Stephen Smith now says the soldiers in
Afghanistan will be given two beers for free if their local commanders agree to it.
| The Real Champagne of Beer If your tastes run towards beer, and you're looking for something different for toasting the new year, you might want to get your hands on a big bottle of Infinium. If the name sounds like a high-end imported automobile, well, the brew was cooked up in part by Germany's Weihenstephan Brewery, the oldest in the world, with America's Samuel Adams, which brewed and is selling it. Just hitting certain outlets in 750-milliliter corked bottles priced at about $20, the 10.3-percent-alcohol brew is described as a "crisp, new champagne-like beer. it's being billed as "the first new beer style created under the Reinheitsgebot in over a hundred years," Reinheitsgebot being the German beer purity law that Weihenstephan, dating back to the year 1040, helps guard. send contributions for On Tap to webmaster@beernexus.com |
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