Finally, some change I can believe in: "The Beer Institute and the Brewers Association today applauded members of the United States House of Representatives for the introduction of H.R. 836 the Brewers Excise and Economic Relief (BEER) Act, which effectively returns the federal beer excise tax back to its pre-1991 level of $9 per barrel."
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So stupid it made me laugh . . . and I wasn't even drinking: Drink name: the Gay Arnold Palmer.
Same vein (but I think they're serious): The toilet with aquarium:
But what good is an aquarium that sits behind you? Ahhh, that's the beauty: It's for those nastiest of nasty hangovers. It has a soothing effect as you fear your eyes might pop out of their sockets.
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I pass this along for my Wisconsin readers: A thorough review of one of your local breweries, from a Catholic beer drinker. Nicely done. There's something noble about so much attention paid to such a small thing.
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I never knew there was such a thing as "sour beers," much less an entire book dedicated to the topic:
Wild Brews by Jeff Sparrows is a book bent on demystifying funky beers. It covers everything from the classic sours like Gueuze and Flanders Red, to the modern style busting creations of breweries like Lost Abbey, Russian River, and De Proef. It does not cover the two German origin sours, Berliner Weiss and Gose, which the author states are outside the scope of the book.
