Beer Buzz 024: The Winner of the Beer Wars VIP Trip Is Announced!
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Show Notes:
Don’t forget we’re having another Tweetup, this time at Great Divide Brewing! So come one come all to GDB on Friday, April 24 so you can join us in “Drinking it 2 the Man” – A Liquid Stimulus Plan!
UPDATES & CORRECTIONS
In our last episode we incorrectly called Garrett Oliver – Oliver Garrett. This is not the first time Eli has done this. For some odd reason he has this thing about switching up his name. He does have two first names after all. We sincerely apologize to Mr. Oliver for the mix up!
BEER NEWS
American Homebrewers Association – National Homebrewers Conference
June 18-20, 2009 - San Francisco Bay Area - Oakland Marriott City Center
30 breweries registered to participate in Pro Brewers Night and 29 clubs ready to show off their stuff
25 speaker presentations (making this one of the largest conferences in AHA history) including:
• “Extreme Fermentables” presented by Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head
• “First Runnings: A Mind Dump” from Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River
• “Hops: Growing Your Own” presented by Ralph Olson of Hopunion
• “Quality: In the Eye of the Brew Holder” presented by Dr. Charles Bamforth of UC Davis
Full Conference Package includes:
* All conference seminars
* Pro-Brewers Night
* Club Night
* Keynote Address
* Grand Banquet/Awards Ceremony
* Hospitality Suite access
Member Rate – $230 ($255 after March 31, 2009)
Non-member Rate – $268 ($293 after March 31, 2009) – Price includes a $38 AHA membership
Social Package includes:
* Pro-Brewers Night
* Club Night
* Keynote Address
* Grand Banquet/Awards Ceremony
* Hospitality Suite access
Member Rate – $175 ($200 after March 31, 2009)
Non-member Rate – $213 ($238 after March 31, 2009) – Price includes a $38 AHA membership.
EU court upholds trade mark ruling against AB Inbev
A European Union court on Wednesday upheld a ruling denying Anheuser-Busch Inbev the right to register the Budweiser name as a trade mark in the EU.
U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch, bought by Belgian counterpart Inbev last year, applied for an EU trade mark in 1996 for the name “Budweiser” for its “beer, ale, porter, malted alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages”.
The application was opposed by Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar, which makes beer marketed in the European Union as Budweiser Budvar, or Czechvar in North America. Budvar’s opposition was upheld by the European trade mark office, OHIM. After a failed appeal at OHIM, Anheuser-Busch took the case to the Luxembourg-based EU Court of First Instance.
Vote for your favorite Beer City, USA
Charlie Papazian, National Beer Examiner, has a poll up on his Examiner site asking people to vote for their favorite beer city. The poll will close at 12:00pm (Mountain Time) on May 7, and the results will be announced during American Craft Beer Week, May 11-17.
Here are the updates as of a few days ago:
Asheville, NC 1470 31%
Portland, OR 1300 27%
Philly, PA 808 17%
St. Louis, MO 227 5%
San Diego, CA 143 3%
SF/Oakland, CA 125 3%
Seattle, WA 109 2%
Notice anything missing? Ya, not a single city from Colorado. Hey, we don’t hate Asheville, NC (where is that by the way?), but saying they’re the best beer city in the USA is like saying the winner of the World Series is the best baseball team on the planet (reminder: the US team was bounced from the recent World Baseball Classic in the semi-finals… again). We give huge props to the Asheville folks for generating so much support (as long as it’s legit), but come on folks…
So we challenge all you people out there to go vote (for Denver, CO) not with your heart, but with your minds and taste buds.
Boulevard Brewing introduces Unfiltered Wheat in aluminum bottles
First off we want to think Blvd. Brewing in Kansas City, MO for sending us 4 bombers from their Smokestack series (Saison, which aired on Monday; Double Wide IPA, The Sixth Glass, and Long Strange Tripel) so stay tuned… you’ll see ‘em on upcoming episodes of Taste Buds with Erik and Dusty.
Blvd. recently debuted a 16-ounce aluminum “bottle” which they’ll be putting their most popular brew – Unfiltered Wheat Beer – into. If you take a look at their website, it’s right on the front page… and it looks very bad ass! The package is expected to enhance distribution opportunities in locations where glass is prohibited, such as golf courses, pools, concert venues, and some outdoor events. The new metal bottles will hit the market April 1. Current plans call for limiting use of the aluminum bottle to the Unfiltered Wheat Beer
BEER RELEASES
Newest member of the Bond Street Series set to debut in mid May and will be available in 22oz. bottles through September. It’s the latest experimental hop beer originating at the Bond Street pub in downtown Bend, OR. Red Chair IPA is named after the oldest operating ski lift at Mt. Bachelor
Derived from 7 varieties of malt including British crystals, German pilsner, and domestic versions of cara-pils and Munich.
Brewed with luscious apricots, finished with whole-leaf hops. A “fruit beer for hop heads…” says Ale Street News.
Tasting Notes: Fruity, citrusy, cedar, thirst-quenching
Wine Comparable: Pinot Noir
Availability: March and April
ABV: 7.0
IBU: 30
Calories: 240
BEER BLOG OF THE WEEK
Musings over a Pint by David Turley (VADavid on Twitter)
Avid craft beer drinker (but not a home brewer) living in Virginia. Big fan and promoter of the local craft beer scene focusing on Fredericksburg and Virginia.
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