Once a regional beer capital, now the Big Easy has only a handful of breweries in the area — perfect for a weekend of sampling.
New Orleans, On the Rise, Is Getting Its Brews Back – NYTimes.com.
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New Orleans, On the Rise, Is Getting Its Brews Back
Published March 30, 2009 beer , brewing , travel Leave a CommentLaos Brewmaster Has High Hopes For Local Beer
Published February 16, 2009 alcohol , beer , brewing Leave a CommentA brewmaster from Laos has it in her head to make her country’s national beer into a global brand — or at least a niche brand with a global reach.
Beer drinkers around the globe can hoist their beer cans in a celebratory toast to a milestone that began in Golden half a century ago. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the old Adolph Coors Co. unveiling the U.S. beer industry’s first seamless, recyclable aluminum beer can.
Coors celebrates aluminum can’s golden milestone : More Business : The Rocky Mountain News.
The subjects of beer and spirituality don’t naturally go together. In this case, however, they are a winning combination.
The Beer Guru is your guide to all things beer. He features in The Beer Guru’s Guide (available on Amazon and other good book sites.) Structured as a spoof mind/body/spirit new age book, the book provides a hilarious path of enlightenment for beer lovers who thirst for mystical experiences and the infinite wisdom occasionally bestowed upon the drinkers of the sacred brew.
The book actually contains a lot of fascinating facts about the origins and history of beer as a holy brew (Throughout most of Europe, it was originally brewed in monasteries and abbeys. There is even an ancient Tibetan tradition of brewing and drinking the beer of enlightenment, upon which the Beer Guru’s teachings may be loosely based.)
Like any sacred text, The Beer Guru’s Guide is chock full of words of wisdom:
- ” If God is omnipresent, he is in your beer. “
- ” After just one bottle, I remembered several previous lives”
- “Reincarnate and come back for another.”
- ” After 18 hours of Tantric Sex, you’ll need a beer.”
Like most new-age gurus, The Beer Guru has an ego the size of a mountain (His personal ambition is to become the world’s most influential spiritual leader. If he gains enough of a cult following, he might just do it.)
You can check out the book, along with the Beer Guru’s latest blogs, on www.thebeerguru.com.
New Book Asks “Does My Butt Look Big In This Beer?”
Published October 22, 2008 beer , books Leave a CommentWondering how all those Bud Lights you downed last weekend are going to your waistline? This book is for you!
“Does My Butt Look Big In This Beer?“ (Gambrinus Media, $12.95) is a handy reference book that contains the Nutritional Values of over 2,000 beers, complete With calorie and carbohydrate contents, Alcohol by Volume (ABV) and Weight Watchers® Points (It’s a great reference guide for anyone on the Weight Watchers, Atkins, or Beach Diets.)
Author Bob Skilnik suggests that savvy customers might deliberately pass by a store display of a favored beer brand not listed in this new book, just because an enterprising competitor took the time to contact Skilnik’s office with the information needed for inclusion in his book.
“Owners from craft breweries like Abita, Alaskan, Flying Dog, Full Sail, Sierra Nevada, Goose Island, the Minhas/Huber Brewery, and many more, have been extremely cooperative with our requests for the nutritional information of their fine products,” Skilnik says. He says he’s also getting great support from such venerable brewing giants as Anheuser-Busch, Foster’s, Grolsch, Heineken, and more.
“These companies thrive in today’s competitive beer market because they’re one step ahead of what their customers want. Beer drinkers now want access to full nutritional info of their favorite products and have turned to me for help,” Skilnik says.
Regretfully, a combination of federal foot-dragging and head-in-the-sand resistance by some brewers who seem to ignore the nutritional information their customers are looking for on beer labels has made this book somewhat of a struggle. Skilnik furthermore says he owes a great debt to all of the open-armed, progressive brewers that have made this book possible.
Skilnik hopes that more breweries throughout the world will continue to contact him with information on their products for inclusion in this revolutionary reference book before it goes to print in late November. “I’d really like to see more cooperation from U.S. microbreweries,” he admits, “and get this book into the hands of repentant New Year’s dieters.”
Skilnik says with a laugh. “Think moderation and not deprivation when January rolls around.”
