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This week Eli flies his gamer geek flag and goes bonkers over World of Wacraft’s in-game Brewfest, and Erik discusses the continuing decline of shatty imports. Plus the boys delve into  fall seasonal brews, chat about the curriculum of Bristol’s Zymurgy Institute, and host of other beery news   All this (and some huge team up news) on this week’s episode of Beer Buzz!

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Show Notes:

UPDATES

Tap Head WaynetheTrain, who almost won a few weeks ago but missed posting the correct answer by mere seconds, is this week’s winner! Wayne scored himself a football DeCapper!  Congrats!

This week’s trivia question is:  Who was the first American to brew lager?  The first person to watch the show and reply with the correct answer in that respective episode’s forum thread wins!

One week from today we’ll be at the Great American Beer Festival!  If you can’t make it to the GABF, don’t worry… we have you covered.  With nearly 500 breweries attending this year’s sold out event, and over 2,000 different brews to sample… it’s going to take a lot of coverage to do it justice! Therefore, Beer Tap TV and Examiner.com are joining forces to collaborate on a series of videos from the festival!  Aside from having daily video updates here on Beer Tap TV (we’ll have a separate GABF page set up soon), you can check out additional footage as well as articles from a host of Beer Examiners at the GABF video hub page on Examiner.com”]GABF video hub page on Examiner.com.  So check out both sites often to see all the coverage!

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BEER NEWS

Story #1: Story #1:  World of Warcraft’s Brewfest – With twelve million subscribers WoW (as it’s known by gamers) is the world’s biggest and most successful massive multiplayer online game.  You probably know someone who plays it.  The craft beer phenomena hasn’t escaped their notice either as they will be holding a massive in-game Brewfest from September 20 – October 4.

Story #2: U.S. drinkers continue to leave imports on the shelf – “Things just don’t seem to be getting any better for our imported beer shipments. Beer Institute released figures yesterday indicating that imported beer shipments were down another 8.1% in July, bringing year-to-date import shipments down 9.3%, or a loss of about 160,000 case equivs a day.”

Story #3: Are you Enjoying Seasonal Beers this Fall? – Harvest Ales are incredibly popular.  According to Information Resources Inc., fall seasonal craft beers generated the highest case and dollar sales last year. Seasonal beers as a category reached new limits in 2008, with sales up 15.7% over 2007 in U.S. supermarkets.

Story #4: Bristol’s Zymurgy Institute – Beer School is back in session at Bristol Brewing Company. This year they’ve partnered with Colorado State University’s Continuing Education department to offer a 20 part lecture series on a variety of beer-related topics that started at the end of August, but you can still attend!

BEER RELEASES

Hoptober – New Belgium Brewing Co. – Fort Collins, CO

09.09.09 Vertical Epic Ale – Stone Brewing Co. – Escondido, CA

BEER FESTIVALS /DINNER/EVENTS OF THE WEEK

2nd Annual Philly Oktoberfest ‘09

BEER GADGET OF THE WEEK

The Craft Beer Board Game

BEER BLOG OF THE WEEK

Starting a Brewery – Adventures in brewing and entrepreneurism. During a recession.

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