27th March 2008

Beer blog sampler

Some recent items of interest in the beerosphere:

Miller Lite craft-style: Fish where the fish are by Stan Hieronymus, Appellation Beer
I may not like most of the products from the industrial brewers, but their marketing types sure aren’t stupid. Stan offers an analysis of why Miller’s new “faux” craft beer won’t be marketed to us beer geeks.

Everything you wanted to know about X by The Zythophile
The history, true and otherwise, of the use of “X” in regards to beer. Fascinating stuff.

Everything Old Is New Again by Jay Brooks, Brookston Beer Bulletin
The Society of Independent Brewers has updated the famous Hogarth prints “Beer Street” and “Gin Lane” as “Pub Street” and “Binge Lane” to highlight the positive effects of pub culture especially as a way to prevent the so-called “epidemic” of binge drinking.

It’s Time to Close the Books on the Latest Noble Experiment: Repeal the 21 Year Old Drinking Age by Rick Lyke, Lyke 2 Drink
It’s time we end Prohibition for 18, 19 and 20 year olds.

SIBA - the elephant in the room by Roger Protz, beer-pages
On the power and influence of the Society of Independent Brewers.

E300 in Czech Beer by Evan Rail for the Prague Daily Monitor
On the inclusion of E300 (a.k.a. Vitamin C) and other food additives in Czech beer.

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