The Brew SiteThe Beer Wars movie premiered tonight (one! night! only!) in theaters around the country. I didn’t go, but I’ve seen some comments on twitter about it and some early blog reviews are in. Barley Vine’s review Adam’s review at Beer Bits Rick Lyke’s review The BeerAdvocate forum thread All in … Continue reading
Some final notes about the beer scene in Baker City, Oregon (where we visited last weekend)… The biggest beer selection in town (from a restaurant) is at Paizano’s Pizza—that’s the pizza parlor owned by our friend Kina, whom we were visiting. They’ve gone out of there way to establish a … Continue reading
The blog is mostly upgraded now, and though there are still theme issues to work out and plugins to play with, overall the WordPress install is running good enough for government work, as they say. Good enough to resume regular blogging while I tweak with things, anyway. Even found some … Continue reading
Some major changes are going to be happening here at The Brew Site over the course of this week, starting (roughly) today: I’m going to upgrading/migrating the site over to WordPress. Accordingly, there won’t be a Theme Week this month—or if you prefer, the Theme Week is going to be … Continue reading
Catching up on some items of interest that for some reason or another I haven’t commented on yet. Beer Wars: The Movie. Everyone and his dog has been talking this up, and despite the something this looks like an interesting documentary on the rise of craft beer. Director Anat Baron … Continue reading
I can’t help but notice and comment on more items online that lend weight to my predictions for this year. First, on homebrewing. I said, "Surging interest in/prominence of homebrewing" and cited economics, creativity, and social activism (socialism? social lubrication?). The "surging interest" part is right on the money, though … Continue reading
Just a few days after writing up my predictions for beer in 2009, a couple of stories float by which (already) seem to be on target. First, CNN Money has an article supporting my "beer over wine" prediction. It’s not exactly a story in the vein of "beer is the … Continue reading
Time to try my hand at some more beer predictions for the coming year. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that a big theme of 2009 is "the economy"—recession, frugality, hard times, etc. This will hit all areas of beer and brewing; witness AB-InBev’s closing of the Stag … Continue reading
A year ago I—like many other people—posted a set of five beer predictions for 2008. Since it’s now the new year, let’s revisit those and see how well I did. Here’s the summary list of my predictions: 1) The hop shortage is going to get worse and get more mainstream … Continue reading
Deschutes Brewery launched their new website at the end of last week, and not only is it much better (and more up-to-date) than their last one, but it also incorporates a lot of the "Web 2.0" stuff that I wish a lot more breweries would adopt. Mainly, blogging; you can … Continue reading