BYCU
Looking for some good summer brews? Check out this list. The beer blogger recommends Brooklyn Lager, which is a fine beer. In fact, it might become my summer mainstay, since I'm pretty sure wheat beers collide harshly with my gluten intolerance. With BL, though, I should be in good hands:
Brooklyn Lager from the Brooklyn Brewery is a personal favorite. I often grab some of this throughout the year at local liquor stores, but during the summer this refreshing pre-Prohibition-style lager (meaning all barley malt, no adjuncts), is a staple of mine. If you're a fan of the recent craft can revolution, this is available in both cans and bottles.
But could one of my favorite beers be in jeopardy? The owner president of Brooklyn Brewery penned an editorial for the New York Daily News, expressing concerns that New York's craft beer industry is threatened with death by taxation:
[A]n excise tax exception that had largely been responsible for the craft-brewing renaissance will be eliminated.
The incentive had exempted New York-based breweries from paying state and city excise tax on their first 200,000 barrels of production (one barrel is about 14 cases of beer).
Brooklyn Brewery is on target to brew about 180,000 barrels this year. The ruling will cost us nearly $600,000 in new taxes.
Wow, that really sucks, especially if they pass along those costs to this drinker in Michigan.
WI
You know what the most-common last words are for Wisconsin decedents? "Here, hold my beer. Watch this."
If you're inclined to join the drunken skunks from badger country, check out this list of beer festivals.
