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Global warming may soon spoil the party for beer lovers

Posted by admin | News | Posted on May 3rd, 2008

The News Review:

- Global warming may soon spoil the party for beer lovers
- Vented wide-mouth beer can devised locally
- Don’t forget the Advil
- Similar backgrounds common future
- Tamarack Brewing: A Brewpub Montana Style
- Man bound over for trial in teen’s death after party

Global warming may soon spoil the party for beer lovers
Economic Times – May 3, 2008
Hops initially served asa flavouring agent and then a preservative in unrefrigerated kegs of beer thatEuropean colonial powers shipped abroad on sailingvessels. The weedy plant isgrown in lines up trestles and a fruit-like cone is harvested to make hops forbrewing. The plants currently grown in northern climates require moist soil ahard-winter freeze and a hotsummer. But according to areport in Nature News warming weather a result of global warming hasdisrupted this formula.

Vented wide-mouth beer can devised locally
Tribune Review – May 3, 2008
open(targetUrl); } Beer drinkers who like their brew in a can and want a smoother pour now can get it — thanks to a new pull-top can developed by Alcoa Inc. The wider pull-top with a vent featured on Coors Brewing Co. cans was developed at the Alcoa Technical Center in Upper Burrell the aluminum company said Friday. The “hole” solution to the problem of a smoother pour was a wider pull-top that opens a vent tube connected to the hole where the liquid pours out. That directs the air to flow in behind the liquid as it pours out said Darl Boysel the project leader for Alcoa and a manager for the center’s rigid packaging division technology.

Don’t forget the Advil
Globe and Mail – May 3, 2008
We’re surprised to find the three-centuries-old beer hall Zum Schlussel close to capacity on a Wednesday night. We settle in with our traditional quarter-litre glasses of roasty deep brown brew exchange pleasantries with a nearby denizen (who professes a love for the house beer which she shares with her dog) and marvel at all we have experienced this evening from time-honoured custom and centuries-old cuisine to trendy dance club and Caribbean cocktail bar. All this and we’ve barely bellied up to Europe’s longest bar. Pack your beer steinGetting ThereLufthansa (.

Similar backgrounds common future
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – May 3, 2008
A Coors mania swept the nation. Eastern college kids took up collections and sent emissaries west to bring back a few cases of the Rocky Mountain brew. Some found the actual beer so bland that they called it “Colorado Kool-Aid” but the Coors cult kept growing through the mid-1970s. Like Miller Coors did its best to keep pace with demand. The first distributorships east of the Mississippi opened in 1981 and within a decade Colorado’s finest was available in all 50 states. utpacing its competitors Coors soon became the third-largest brewer in America.

Tamarack Brewing: A Brewpub Montana Style
New West – May 3, 2008
But when the co-owner Craig Koontz brought out the brandy snifters I realized I knew only part of the answer. If you live in Montana you might not know what a brewpub is. By definition it’s an eatery that brews its own beer on premises. But if Montanans want to see the real deal they need to go somewhere else because state law essentially prohibits brewpubs even though every other state except Arkansas allows them… Legalities aside for tourists and locals alike Tamarack Brewing is different than most Montana microbreweries. It doesn’t have a tasting room. Instead you can get samples pints and growlers of the company’s beer at the Alehouse although The Rack also offers beer made by other Flathead-area craft brewers. Most Montana microbreweries don’t serve food nor does Tamarack Brewing but at the Alehouse you can enjoy dinner and some great microbrew as I did when I visited. While dining you can watch and listen to workers make beer through internal glassless windows into the brewery. The Rack also has the beautiful Creekside Patio for dining and lounging overlooking Stoner Creek. “ur atmosphere sets our place apart from a lot of brewers” Koontz explains.

Man bound over for trial in teen’s death after party
Joplin Globe – May 3, 2008
Family and friends of the late Jessica Murphy watched while Brandon K. Himes 23 was bound over for trial after testimony from almost a half-dozen witnesses at his preliminary hearing Monday. ne of the witnesses testified that Himes poured about “half a fifth” of vodka and “half a fifth” of tequila along with an unknown amount of beer into a “beer bong” or funnel that fed into Murphy’s mouth via a hose. Murphy was one of perhaps two dozen people who went to the home of some young Monett men the night of March 3 2007 for a birthday party for two women according to testimony. Witnesses said Murphy and Himes arrived at the party independent of each other. Himes did not live at the house. Murphy was found dead at the home early March 4 2007 and had a blood-alcohol level that later was determined to be about 0.