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Beer not needed to get me tressed out

Posted by admin | News | Posted on April 12th, 2008

The News Review:

- Beer not needed to get me tressed out
- Bottoms Up: Just Another Saturday Night For Clinton? Shot of Whiskey…
- Growth challenge is brewing at Boston Beer
- Slowdown? Beer sales up by 13%
- Greenpeace activists are arrested for exposing Japanese whaling…

Beer not needed to get me tressed out
Toronto Star – Apr 12, 2008
Here’s an Associated Press snippet from Grand Rapids Mich. that deserves wider exposure:"The owner of Jude’s Barbershops will continue offering haircuts and shaves to his customers but no more free beer. The Michigan attorney general’s office has ruled Thomas Martin’s 11 shops in the Grand Rapids area may not hand out a brew with each cut. The ruling says Martin needs a liquor licence if he wants to continue giving away beer.

Bottoms Up: Just Another Saturday Night For Clinton? Shot of Whiskey…
CBS News – Apr 12, 2008
– Hillary Clinton mingled with patrons at Bronko’s Restaurant and Lounge in northwest Indiana on Saturday night. After a long day of campaigning Clinton was cajoled into taking a shot of Crown Royal whisky which she sipped at first but later threw her head back and swallowed it down. That led to a few beers and some pizza.

Growth challenge is brewing at Boston Beer
Utica bserver Dispatch – Apr 12, 2008
The South Boston-based company took the No. 1 spot among craft brewers years ago and never looked back with its shipment volumes of Samuel Adams beers rising by more than 15 percent in the last year alone.    But popularity has its price. The company plans to spend as much as $110 million on the biggest capital project in its 24-year history as it buys and restores an old Diageo brewery near Allentown Pa.

Slowdown? Beer sales up by 13%
Manila Standard Today – Apr 12, 2008
Austria FD and beverage giant San Miguel Corp. said yesterday its brewery unit’s net income rose 36. 5 billion in the first quarter on the back of higher sales volumes. It said San Miguel Brewery Inc.

Greenpeace activists are arrested for exposing Japanese whaling…
New Scientist – New Scientist (subscription) – Apr 12, 2008
Subscribe and get 4 free issues. It is accepted among Australian beer drinkers that a glass of cold draught lager holds its head for longer if the beer is pulled in two or three separate pours rather than in one continuous pull. What causes this effect and does it also apply to beers served at cellar temperature? ? If you pour the beer in one pull the foam grows under uniform conditions producing relatively few bubbles and mostly large ones. Large bubbles pop quickly so the head doesn’t last. By pausing during pulling one gives the first bubbles time to grow larger and more flexible before the turbulence of the next pull shears some of them into more numerous smaller bubbles. Furthermore the concentration of carbon dioxide in the poured beer surrounding a large bubble has had a chance to drop so that the bubbles stop growing so rapidly. The effect of the extra pulls is to reduce the size of the bubbles and increase their number.