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This week Eli and Erik go to a haunted house* – ‘cuz it’s Halloween time – to celebrate the 50th episode of the only weekly beer news show in the known universe!  When they’re not dodging vampires they chat about beer and brains (Zombies like brains!), the attack on New York by the world’s draught masters, how Sam Adams and Weihenstephan will play Dr. Frankenstein to create a one of a kind beer beast, some truly freaky new beer releases, and the drunkest man ever captured on video!  Plus they give away the last signed copy of George Wendt’s (NORM!) book.  Watch this weeks startling episode… or else. MOOOAHAHAHAHAH!

*Huge props to Pat and Renee for letting us invade their truly haunted house! We had a great time!

Beer Buzz brings you the latest news about the beer industry.  Know something we don’t (which is highly likely)?  Email us at AlwaysHoppy@BeerTapTV.com and share the news… we just might use it.

Show Notes:

UPDATES

Last week’s winner was SudsyMaggie who correctly answered the trivia question! The answer: 124 sixteen ounce servings.  Maggie won herself a copy of Gary V’s book “Crush It.”

This week’s trivia question will make you search the BTTV archives!   The first person to reply with the correct answer in that respective episode’s forum thread wins the third and final copy of George Wendt’s new book, Drinking with George!  Good luck!

TiVo.  On Demand. Coming very soon!

We filmed a ton of video at this year’s GABF.  Go watch it here –> Beer Tap TV GABF page and on the GABF video hub page on Examiner.com. Check out both sites!

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BEER NEWS

Story #1: Can beer help heal brain injuries?  Zombies like brains! – According to a recent study published in the Archives of Surgery people who suffer a traumatic brain injury are more apt to survive if they had been drinking at the time of the injury. The finding “raises the intriguing possibility” that giving alcohol to brain injured patients may improve their outcome.

Story #2: World’s Draught Masters attack NYC!  MOOOAHAHA! – Today in New York City, draught masters from 32 countries are descending on New York City to perform the centuries old Belgian Pouring Ritual and compete for the 2009 Stella Artois World Draught Master title.

Story #3: Samuel Adams and Weihenstephan play Dr. Frankenstein- Germany’s Weihenstephan Brewery and America’s Sam Adams embark on mission to harness their 1,000 years of collective brewing knowledge in order to create a beer unlike any other.  Next spring the beast will be unveiled and Jim Koch will proclaim:  It’s alive!

BEER RELEASES

Freak out over “Freaktoberfest” – Shmaltz Brewing Company – This blood-red Coney Island lager is brewed with 6 malts, 6 hops, and 6.66% ABV and is artfully crafted to lure the spirit’s deepest rapture and exorcise the grim horrors of armies of soulless Lagers everywhere.

Trinity Brewing Company wants you to “Slap Your Mammy” – This Shocking Double IPA comes in at 10% ABV.  Brewed with 7 of the highest quality malts and 8 varieties of hops the 125 minute boil packs in 125 IBU’s, making it one of the hoppiest beers ever brewed in the world.

NEW BREWERY OF THE WEEK

Mother Earth Brewing Company (Kinston, North Carolina) – Held their grand opening celebration last weekend. Mother Earth boasts green business benefits like solar panels and special insulation for the building as well as brewing at 82% efficiency. They’re already selling their beer to six restaurants, bars and stores in the east.

BEER GADGET OF THE WEEK

Brew Holster Cult (prices range from $30 – $40) – Beer enthusiasts and young bourbon professionals Sara “Cuda” and “Rowdy Nici” formed their partnership while playing in AC/DShe, the widely acclaimed female AC/DC tribute band. After too many broken amps from spilled beers, Sara and Nici put their leather crafting skills to good use and formed Brew Holster Cult. The quest for the perfect fashion accessory had been conquered! Each custom leather holster is individually hand-made!

BEER BLOG OF THE WEEK

Fantasy Brewmasters – An online community of artists and writers, working together with craft brewers to create incredible beers based on fictional worlds.

BEER DOUCHE OF THE WEEK

Drunkest man ever captured on film!

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This week Eli and Erik chat about a big beer duopoly, a beer made out of pumpkins, a bike made for drinking beer… and so much more!  Plus they’re giving away more free stuff too!

Beer Buzz is the ONLY weekly show anywhere in the known universe dedicated to bringing you the latest about the beer industry.  Know something we don’t (which is highly likely)?  Email us at AlwaysHoppy@BeerTapTV.com and share the news… we just might use it.

Show Notes:

UPDATES

Last week’s winner was  eBryon who correctly gave us the answer to the question:  how many women consume beer in the US? ANSWER: 25%. Bryon won himself a signed copy of George Wendt’s new book, Drinking with George!  Congrats!

This week’s trivia question is… WATCH THE SHOW!

TiVo.  On Demand. Coming very soon!

We filmed a ton of stuff  extensive video coverage at the GABF, which can be found –> Beer Tap TV GABF page and on the GABF video hub page on Examiner.com.  So check out both sites!

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We’ll be doing some special things for Halloween net week… so stay tuned!

BEER NEWS

Story #1: Beer tastes better out of glass? Rubbish! – According to Ian Watson, a freelance brewer and Australia’s first beer sommelier, the taste of beer will not be altered dramatically by the use of plastic glasses (instead of glass) in pubs. We beg to differ.  In fact, we know he’s wrong.

Story #2: Big Beer Duopoly Warning From Marin Institute – The Marin Institute, the alcohol industry watchdog, released a report last week criticizing the hasty approval of two beer mergers that left 80% of the United States beer market in the hands of two foreign companies — MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch InBev. They are calling on the Obama Administration to investigate the mergers hastily approved at the end of the Bush administration.

Story #3: 99 Bottles of Beer at the Museum (written by Jay R. Brooks on his Inside Bay Area column at the Oakland Tribune) – Beer history is on display at UC Berkeley in a new anthropological exhibit at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Curator Ira Jacknis has an exhibit called  “99 Bottles of Beer: Global Brewing Traditions 2500 B.C. to the Present.”   More info about the exhibit can be found online at hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/beer.

Story #4: Japanese fall for alcohol-free beer

BEER RELEASES

Venetucci Pumpkin Ale – Bristol Brewing – Colorado Springs, CO

BEER GADGET OF THE WEEK

The Hopworksfiets party bike – built in Portland, Oregon, by the bike builders Metrofiets. All you really need to know in order to fall in love with this bike is that it carries not one, but two beer kegs along with a pair of taps to serve the suds.

BEER BLOG OF THE WEEK

Beer Comm Dood – A beer enthusiast’s blog for beer enthusiasts.

BEER DOUCHE OF THE WEEK

Plane diverted after passenger ’stole beer’

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This week Eli and Erik rant and rave about beer lists, how a mega corp needs a beat down, a Palestinian brewery, another world class beer douche, and a few other things that seem to have the boys all fired up.   Oh, and they’re giving away another signed copy of George Wendt’s book, Drinking with George!  This is one episode you do not want to miss!

Beer Buzz is the ONLY weekly show anywhere in the known universe dedicated to bringing you the latest about the beer industry.  Know something we don’t (which is highly likely)?  Email us at AlwaysHoppy@BeerTapTV.com and share the news… we just might use it.

Show Notes:

UPDATES

Last week’s winner was  Cvfish who answered when and where the first commercial brewery in “America”? ANSWER: New Amsterdam – now NYC, Manhattan – in 1612 after colonists advertised in London newspapers for experienced brewers.  Fish won a golf DeCapper.  Congrats!

This week’s trivia question is… what?  You really didn’t think we were just gonna blurt it out here did you?  WATCH THE SHOW!  It’ll be worth your while since we’re giving away our second copy of George Wendt’s new book, Drinking with George!

TiVo.  On Demand. Soon. Very soon.

We filmed a ton of stuff  extensive video coverage on our Beer Tap TV GABF page, plus a slew of footage over on the GABF video hub page on Examiner.com.  So check out both sites often to watch it all!

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Oh, and one more thing:  we’ll be doing some special things for Halloween… so stay tuned!

BEER NEWS

Story #1: The Men’s Journal Top Five Beer Towns in the U.S. – No hate intended towards any of the cities on this list -they’re admirable, and most of them deserve to be on it, but any time you rattle off a “best beer anything” and Denver, Colorado is not listed… flag! Personal foul: not knowing about the beer culture.  Now, we’re not hometown homers by any means. In fact, it’s not so much the cities themselves that we have issue with as the beer douches that put this list together. We point out the bigger problems with their beer knowledge (or lack thereof)…

Story #2: Forbes Magazine says “Beer Levels the Playing Field” – A world-class brew can be made anywhere in the world, in any style. Unlike winemakers, who depend on local ingredients and growing conditions, brewers have options — and that’s part of what makes a brewer more like a chef than like a winemaker.  See why…

Story #3: “Monster” versus “Vermonster” – Hansen Beverage Co., the maker of the energy drink “Monster,” wants tiny Rock Art Brewery to stop using the name “Vermonster” on their brew and to compensate it for its attorneys’ fees.  Why?  Because the mega corp thinks it might confuse the consumer. Apparently they think we’re all mindless sheep because energy drinks are always confused with beer.  This is one fight the mega “Monster” wish it had never started cuz the public is going to rip it a new asshole.

Story #4: Time Magazine profiles a Palestinian brewery in the West Bank – Madees Khoury is 24 and the only woman brewer — or brewster — in the Middle East. She’s being groomed by her family to take over the Taybeh brewery, home of the only Palestinian beer. With just 2,000 residents, Taybeh is the last remaining all-Christian village in the Holy Land.  See what makes this such a unique brewery by watching the Time video “West Bank Brew: The Beer That Made Taybeh Famous”.

BEER RELEASES

Kosmos Reserve – Spoetzl Brewery – Shiner, Texas

Broo Doo – Three Floyds Brewing – Munster, Indiana

BEER FESTIVAL OF THE WEEK

Baltimore Beer Week

BEER DOUCHE OF THE WEEK

Suspect says beer theft ‘got way out of control’ – Ya think?

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This week Eli and Erik talk about racks, Munich’s Oktoberfest, beer travel and more… so  dive in and get your weekly Beer Buzz!

Beer Buzz is the ONLY weekly show anywhere in the known universe dedicated to bringing you the latest about the beer industry.  Know something we don’t (which is highly likely)?  Email us at AlwaysHoppy@BeerTapTV.com and share the news… we just might use it.

Show Notes:

UPDATES

Last week’s winner was Warsonbrewing.  Jesse gave us the answer to this trivia question – in liters mind you:   how much beer is lost each year in people’s mustaches and beards in Great Britain. The answer was 24,502 gallons, or 92,749 liters.  Jesse gets a signed copy of Charles Bamfourth’s book Beer: Tap into the Art and Science of Brewing.  Congrats Jesse!  Watch to find out what deviousness we’ve dropped into this week’s question.

You’ll soon be able download Beer Tap TV directly to your televisions via TiVo!  Stay tuned for more details.

We filmed a ton of stuff  extensive video coverage on our Beer Tap TV GABF page, plus a slew of footage over on the GABF video hub page on Examiner.com.  So check out both sites often to watch it all!

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BEER NEWS

Story #1: 2009 Munich Oktoberfest is over - The number of revelers dropped slightly this year amid economic woes and tighter security.  “Only 5.7” million drinkers staggered through the beer tents during the two-week festival compared with 6 million the year before. However, fewer people drank more beer – 6.5 million liters were consumed, an increase from 6 million in 2008.

Story #2: New Belgium Pedals Further into Wisconsin – New Belgium Brewing, the third-largest craft brewer in the U.S., has just entered the Eau Claire, La Crosse, Menomonie and Wausau areas of Wisconsin.

Story #3: Raise a glass to U.S. beer travel – With more than 1,500 breweries across the U.S., beer is no longer just a drink — it’s a destination.

Story #4: Belgian Ales Instead of Wine – The beer world is changing due in large part to the influence of Belgian Ales, and many Americans are taking notice.   Like we’ve said here at BTTV… Beer is the Wine of ’09!

BEER RELEASES

Treblehook Barley Wine – Redhook Ale Brewery

Samuel Adams Barrel Room Collection – Boston Beer Company

BEER GADGET OF THE WEEK

The Winerack ($29.95)

BEER BLOG OF THE WEEK

“Blog About Beer” by Luke Livingston

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After the GABF Eli and Erik (and Dusty and David) are still trying to convince their livers to not move out on them.  So what do they do?  Dive back into the beer and talk about who won what, who they interviewed and a host of other nifty GABF facts! All this and so much more on this week’s episode of Beer Buzz!

Beer Buzz is the ONLY weekly show anywhere in the known universe dedicated to bringing you the latest about the beer industry.  Know something we don’t (which is highly likely)?  Email us at AlwaysHoppy@BeerTapTV.com and share the news… we just might use it.

Show Notes:

UPDATES

Last week’s winner was Hoppy Ipa who managed to get the mega GABF themed three-part question 100% right!   QUESTION #1:  What year was the first GABF?  ANSWER:  1982.  QUESTION #2: How many breweries were at that year’s GABF?  ANSWER:  A measly 20.   QUESTION #3:  How many people attended? ANSWER: Only 900, compared with this year’s attendance of 49,000!  For his trivia answering prowess, Troy gets himself a signed copy of George Wendt’s new book “Drinking with George”!  Congrats Troy!

And what about this week’s question?  Oh, you’ll have to go digging abroad to find the answer.

You’ll soon be able download Beer Tap TV directly to your televisions via TiVo!  Stay tune for more details.

As you know we were at the Great American Beer Festival last week.  We have extensive video coverage on our Beer Tap TV GABF page, plus a slew of footage over on the 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 and Story #2: The 2009 Great American Beer Festival shatters records despite the economy – The GABF Competition continued its record setting ways, crushing last year’s entries by 16%, and remains the largest commercial beer competition in the world with 3,308 entries. Colorado and California typically dominate the competition each year for the most medals won by each state, with Colorado breweries and brewpubs coming out ahead for 2009. The top five medal winning states were: CO (45), CA (39), OR (22), WA (13), PA (12).

Story #3: U.S. beer industry posts 3rd consecutive year of increases

Story #4: The world’s oldest barmaid – The world’s oldest and longest-serving barmaid, 95-year-old Dolly Saville, wants to work as long as she can. She has been working as a barmaid for 69 years.

BEER RELEASES

Cherry Oak Doppelbock – Widmer Bros. – Portland, OR

India Barleywine – Odell Brewing – Ft. Collins, CO

BEER FESTIVAL  OF THE WEEK

2nd Annual Rails & Ales Oktoberfest – Oktoberfest.  On the Rio Grande Scenic train.  In Alamosa, CO.  The most unique beer festival you will ever experience!

BEER GADGET OF THE WEEK

N-Ice Rack Freezable Beer Pong Rack – $23.95 (Thanks to Sparky Mike for letting us know about this!)

BEER BLOG OF THE WEEK

The Captain’s Chair by Aaron Masterson

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