Beer Buzz 064: Another Bad Beer Bill
Beer Tap TV News:
This week on Beer Buzz Eli and Erik talk about Colorado beer legislation, things you can do with beer besides drink it, unbreakable beer glasses, ABV calculators, and a Beer Wench! This and more on the only beer news show on the Internet!
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Show Notes:
UPDATES
Last week’s winner was Zodiak3000 who told us that BEER was in fact the oldest written recipe. Congrats to Zack for winning a nifty set of wheat glasses from Spiegelau – the class of glass.
This week’s trivia question is hidden somewhere in the depths of this episode. We’ll be moving it around often, so be sure to watch the entire episode.
We’re on Facebook and YouTube! And if you want to watch us in High-Def on your Big Screen… we’re now on TiVo under the Food & Drink section. Additionally, we are the only beer show listed as a “Recommended Website” on the Brewers Association’s new, kick ass interactive CraftBeer.com site. Go to “Stories” –> Recommended Website –> Craft Beer Web Casts/Pod-Casts or just click here .
We filmed a ton of video at the 2009 GABF. Go watch it here –> Beer Tap TV GABF page and on the GABF video hub page on Examiner.com.
BEER NEWS
Story #1: Move over Hop Head… make way for the Sour Puss! – Over the last decade the India Pale Ales has led the charge of change in the American beer industry. Look out Hop Head… there’s a new sheriff in town and his name is Sour Puss.
Story #2: Liquor-sale bills change the game – For the last two years lawmakers have been swayed by predictions that letting corporate owned supermarket chains and convenience stores sell full strength alcohol would kill off all nearly 1,600 mom-and-pops liquor stores in the state of Colorado. This year two new House Bills are taking a different approach.
Story #3: 31 Things You Can Do with Beer (Besides Drink It) – Beer is so good that you should be able to do more than just drink it, right? The latest issue of Men’s Health gives you 31 other reasons to love it.
Story #4: Britain Unveils Shatterproof Pint Glass – In Britain there are 87,000 violent incidents a year involving glass. Mostly from pub fights where pint glasses are used as weapons. To combat this they have unveiled new unbreakable beer glasses.
BEER RELEASE OF THE WEEK
Mighty Arrow Pale Ale – New Belgium Brewing – Fort Collins, CO – Mighty Arrow returns as NBB’s season. It has a heightened hop aroma and flavor derived from Cascade and Amarillo hops and a honey malt base. 6% ABV and 35 IBU’s.
Colette Farmhouse Ale – Great Divide Brewing – Denver, CO – Brewed with barley, wheat and rice and fermented at high temperatures with a special blend of four different yeast strains, Colette is a fruity and slightly tart with a dry finish that makes it the rarest of treats-a beer as refreshing as it is complex. 7.3% ABV.
BEER FESTIVAL OF THE WEEK
2nd Annual Light Rail Pub Crawl sponsored by the Great Arizona Beer Festival
BEER GADGET OF THE WEEK
AlcCalc – AlcCalc is a simple Potential Alcohol Calculator. Just enter your Starting and Final Gravities (From 1.00 and up) and BAM… you’ve got your homebrew’s ABV. Available on iTunes app store for 99 cents.
BEER BLOG OF THE WEEK
Drink with the Wench by The Beer Wench (aka Ashley Routson)
If you “hop” around the beer-o-sphere with any regularity then you’ve probably heard of this week’s Beer Blogger. Best known for her nom de plume… The Beer Wench, Ashley Routson’s life (career, hobby and lifestyle) is literally all about beer. She believes in the power of social media and tries to inspire conversation, instead of giving lectures. Most of all, she strives to be the “female version” of Michael Jackson.
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