Absolut Brooklyn Vodka Sponsoring Blogfest 2010

Not that I need any excuse to knock back some bread wine, but Absolut has given me one anyway. Hitting stores nationally June 2010, Absolut will be launching the fourth bottle in the American city bottle collection. The first three were New Orleans, Los Angeles and Boston (did we just beat Manhattan to the proverbial [...]

April 7th Is National Beer Day – Cheers!

​If you do a quick search of Google, you will see there are a few unofficial “beer holidays”. August 7 is apparently International Beer Day. American Beer Day is October 27. But National Beer Day, celebrated each year on April 7, is actually the more credible. It’s on this day in 1933 that President Franklin [...]

Move over Sam Adams ‘Utopias’. Hello Brew Dog’s ‘Sink The Bismarck’

The worlds strongest beer is no longer Samuel Adams Utopias.  The 25.6% ABV beer made by one of Americas’s most well known brewery companies just lost it’s American crown to a couple of 20 something year olds from the U.K. (Fraserburgh, Scotland to be more precise) James Watt and Martin Dickie started brewing their beer in [...]

Beer Is Good For Your Bones

I knew it!  And to celebrate, let’s toast a beer to beer.  According to researchers from the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of California, have found beer is a rich source of silicon and may help prevent osteoporosis, as dietary silicon is a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density. These [...]

USA vs Canada – Colbert Launches ‘Don’t Be An Icehole’ Campaign

If you haven’t heard already, Stephen Colbert is starting the ‘Don’t Be An Icehole’ campaign against the Canadians, which in turn, has promoted Canadian based R&B Brewery Co to do something about it. It all started because supposedly, the Canadians aren’t offering the Americans enough access to the Olympic rink to practice. Even after Colbert [...]