Beer Buzz 052: Beer & Dinosaurs FTW!

[Eli the Mad Beer Man]

These are the Show Notes and Comments to Beer Buzz Episode #52. You can watch the entire show, including these show notes, by clicking here. (http://BeerTapTV.com/BeerBuzz)

Beer Tap TV News:
This week Eli and Erik talk about a new Oregon hop company, wine festivals adding craft beer to the lineup, new beers, breweries and so much more! This week the Beer Boys are giving away a new - and pretty damn cool prize - Spiegelau glassware!

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 WhopTbird (AKA Brandon), who answered the question: In what April '09 episode of Beer Buzz do we drink Oskar's Gordon and Breckenridge's ESB? ANSWER: The April 7th episode. Brandon won ice fishing bobber DeCapper (http://www.thedecapper.com/). Congrats to Brandon!

This week’s trivia question is: Why is Pabst Beer called Pabst Blue Ribbon beer? ANSWER: Watch the show! The first person to reply with the correct answer in that episode’s forum thread wins... a brand new prize! A set (consisting of two glasses) of the Spiegelau lager glasses from their new Beer Classics line of glassware (http://www.spiegelau.com/mainmenu/en-products/view/new_items_int/beer_classics/?no_cache=1). We tend to use these as are multi-purpose use glass. As you've seen time after time on Beer Tap TV these bad boys of beer imbibing really make a difference.

There's another Denver Tweetup (http://triviatoystweetup.eventbrite.com/) right around the corner! Thursday November 19 at Rackhouse Pub... be there!

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We filmed a ton of video at this year's GABF. Go watch it here --> Beer Tap TV GABF page (http://beertaptv.com/gabf) and on the GABF video hub page on Examiner.com (http://www.examiner.com/x-383-Colorado-Springs-Craft-Beer-Examiner~y2009m9d16-Great-American-Beer-Festival-video-hub-from-Examinercom-and-BeerTapTV). Check out both sites!

BEER NEWS

Story #1: Indie Hops sets sail (http://beertaptv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=566) - Oregon's first and only hop pellet milling operation is now open for business! There mission is to supply 100% Oregon grown aroma hops to the craft beer industry using a sustainable, transparent and fair pricing structure. All of their hops are grown in the heart of the Willamette Valley, the finest area for aroma hops in the U.S.[/url]

Story #2: Wine fest adjusts for recession (http://adage.com/article?article_id=140106 By Beth Snyder Bulik - Advertsing Age)- (story brought to our attention by Rick Andrews of "Ales from the Crypt" (http://alesfromthecrypt.blogspot.com/) fame) - Adding specialty beers and emphasizing the food aspect of the eighth annual Suncoast Food & Wine Fest, formerly the Suncoast Winefestival, were two changes the Rotary Club made to keep the event successful in depressed times.

BEER RELEASES


[url=http://beertaptv.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1436#post1436]13 Anniversary Ale - Firestone Walker Brewing - Paso Robles, CA (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=168746171575&ref=mf) - Firestone's new anniversary beer “13” will go on sale for the first time at noon TODAY at the Firestone Walker Brewery in Paso Robles and the Firestone Walker Taproom Restaurant in Buellton.

Mountain Standard Reserve ‘09 - Odell Brewing - Fort Collins, CO (http://beertaptv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=538) - On November 2, when daylight savings time officially ended, Odell released Mountain Standard.The 9.4% ABV deep mahogany ale features local organic hops and pays tribute to the region’s oft forgotten time zone.

NEW BREWERY OF THE WEEK

Teller County will be getting a brewery soon (http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-383-Colorado-Springs-Craft-Beer-Examiner~y2009m10d30-New-brewery-set-to-open-in-Woodland-Park) - The Woodland Park Brewing Company has secured a location just off of U.S. 24 next to the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center. Brewers Jeff Aragon and Brian Horton are currently setting up equipment and plan to be brewing by the end of December and serving by the end of January 2010.

BEER FESTIVALS OF THE WEEK

San Diego Beer Week (http://beertaptv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=562) - Right now the first ever San Diego Beer Week is going. From now until Sunday, November 15 there will be more than 200 beer events celebrating the region's thriving craft beer scene.

BEER BLOG OF THE WEEK

The Brewers Dray Blog (http://thebrewersdray.blogspot.com/) - An assortment of local and international brewing news, pub reviews and random beery musing from the streets of Perth, Australia.

BEER GADGET OF THE WEEK

CraftBeerClothing.com (http://craftbeerclothing.com/)- The first clothing line dedicated to craft beer. Shirts ranging $14.99 - $15.99 (for XXL)

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[BreweryReviewery]

There was a competition in Milwaukee for the best beer. Only 12 breweries of the more than 1200 showed up. The two front runners were Busch and Pabst. There were some judging "mistakes" in that it is really never know who actaully won. "Pabst scored a 94.6 and Busch a 94.3 were declared as the final results. Pabst announced himself the grand prize will and celebrated by drappign his brewery in blue ribbon and giving the workers the day off." (Ogle, 2006, pg 130-133) Info found in Ambitious Brew: The story of American Beer.
The beer was originally called Best Select, then Pabst Select and finally Pabst Blue Ribbon. A blue ribbon was tied around the bottle neck; this practice ran from 1882 until 1916. The ribbon was to commemorate the win at the Exposition. It is unclear if it actually took place in 1882 or 1883.

Great show again as usual. Thanks for the beer news.

[alesfromthecrypt]

I agree with BreweryReviewery and would add that Pabst stopped hand tying silk blue ribbons on their bottles during World War II due to the rationing of silk. To replace the silk ribbons, the company introduced the Blue Ribbon logo in which is still the recognizable logo for the beer to this day.

.....I'm in the EST time zone and still can't come in first when youze guyz are late! Dang, dang, double dang!

:)

[BreweryReviewery]

Luckily today was my day off. If it wasn't I would not of been able to answer till 10:00 your time.

[caveman]

best select won the blue ribbon in 1893 at the columbia exposition and the company began the practice of putting blue slik ribbon around the neck of there best select bottle and changed the name after enthusiast began asking the bartenders to serve up the beer that won the blue ribbon the pabst part of the name comes from frederick pabst who married into the best family and brought in to the business in 1863

[Eli the Mad Beer Man]

We have a Winnah!

Nate (aka Brewery Reviewry) lavished us with so much info that it made Erik exclaim: "Wholly detail batman!"

Nate, send me your mailing address via Email so I get these lovely Spiegelau glasses down to ya my man!

And place, let us know what you think of them. If you shoot a little video we'll play it on an upcoming episode of Beer Buzz!

Cheers!!

[whoptbird]

OY 90 days now? It was 2 months before. you guys are killin us :D Nice episode great new prize and anxiously awaiting the "mysterious thing". Like the gadget and love all the new beer releases. That was very cool what that brewery did. Keep up the great work.

[Hopsfan]

It looks like you were to late there caveman. You got wakeddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[warsonbrewing]

I think caveman has the question all the way right via the pabst website. it looks like brewrey reviewry wasent even sure about the date since he put two on there. It looks like caveman got waked yet once again:D