Brews You Can Use

Okay, these guys are off my list of acceptable brewers: Carlsberg's announcement that it has found customers for its $400 a 375ml bottle of a new beer known as Vintage No 1. Four hundred bucks for a bottle of beer ("But hey, it's a big bottle: 12.7 ounces")? Calling it "Vintage"? The brewmeister then says a person can drink it with “a very special friend.” Vomit.
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"A Beer for Hope." I'm kind of disappointed. At first, I thought it was being brewed in honor of the Pope's most-recent encyclical. After reading the story, I realize it's brewed to help a cancer victim. Very nice, of course, but not nearly as titillating as Spe Salvi suds.
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Even those rascally Anglicans get things right sometimes: When the Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu, went to visit Pope Benedict XVI in Rome he took him an unusual gift – Holy Grail, a beer brewed by the Black Sheep Brewery located in Masham, England.
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Had I been sick for two weeks or two years? I hadn't even heard of alcoholic tea, must less that Sam Adams was brewing it. I like tea, and I like alcohol. I'd be inclined to try it, but each element caters to different dispositions: one work, the other play. Mixing them would kinda be like mixing rock-n-roll with the liturgy (which some are doing, of course).
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Taking a cue from The Scotsman, the NYT has collected all its beer stories onto one page. Most righteous.