Food and Drink

Hallowbeers Man, lots of spooky beer stories out there today. I guess it's no surprise, since "Halloween is actually the biggest weekend of the year for beer sales [http://www.nacsonline.com/NACS/News/Daily/Pages/ND1028103.aspx]." The drinking theme is so popular, "nearly

Starbeers You want a buzz with your coffee? A Starbucks coffee shop in Seattle is test-marketing craft beer and local wines [http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/starbucks-beer/]. My first thought: The apocalypse is upon us, but upon reflection and further reading, it makes perfect sense. The energized crowd often wants to shift

Brews You Can Use Maybe I'll become a renaissance man. An expert in everything: philosophy, theology, history, art, beer, finance, copulatory technique, dewey decimal system, chemistry, TV, electronics, fashion, web-page design. Even cooking. Heck, especially cooking, now that I've found the magic ingredient: beer. Beers can

Ring the Bell! I became a fan of Bell's beer about five years ago. It looks like I merely jumped on a big drunken bandwagon: "The beer business is apparently booming and Kalamazoo's Bell's Brewery is expanding just outside the city. . . Bell'

Brews You Can Use Providing all the conversation fodder you need for your upcoming evening! Well, crud. The economy is forcing one of the greatest bastions of beer drinking--the English pub--to change its business model. They're now catering more to yuppies than hard-core drinkers. Link [http://www.economist.

Deep-Fried Beer and Other Forms of Beer Violence Oh, what the hey. I'll try it: Deep-fried beer [http://www.nationalreview.com/the-feed/246775/finally-deep-fried-beer]. "The beer is placed inside a pocket of salty, pretzel-like dough and then dunked in oil at 375 degrees for about 20 seconds,

Drunk and Driven I'm thinking about becoming an alcoholic. Beer and wine are my favorites, so I'll drink a lot of them. I don't like hard liquor, but I'll drink it if that what it takes to realize my ambition. Unlike some

Even Buckeyes can do something cool: The beer tray relays, from Minster, Ohio [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA9V1HKMPBE]. The TDE reader who sent it also provided a link to the actual site, but at the time of this posting, the link is down.

After the last two days, I guess I should feel like a breast implant: "A new study suggests that beer is a significant source of dietary silicon, a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density. Researchers from the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of California,

Returnables: 1960s Style A TDE reader sends this along: Straub Brewery [http://www.straubbeer.com/] still uses returnable bottles. I thought to myself, "Most breweries use returnable bottles because various states impose a bottle deposit. In Michigan, each bottle requires a ten-cent deposit." But here's what