Beer Buzz 049: Hop on board the Beer Bike!
Beer Tap TV News:
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!
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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!
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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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