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Beer tasting 101: Educate your palate

Posted by admin | News | Posted on July 3rd, 2009

The News Review:

- Beer tasting 101: Educate your palate
- Cocktails Dance on the Head of a Beer
- Beer-butt chicken grilling technique ensures moist bird
- US Beer Sales Rank #1 on 4th of July
- Kid Rock to launch American Badass Beer Company
- Beer for Breasts – events in Palm Beach County
- Gallup: ‘n Mars They Drink Beer; on Venus Wine’

Beer tasting 101: Educate your palate
Examiner.com
Beer has appearance aroma and flavor components all of which contribute to its overall characteristics. Here’s a brief rundown on factors to look for when tasting a beer.

Cocktails Dance on the Head of a Beer
New York Times
But now bartenders are experimenting with crossover drinks that marry beers with spirits mixers even wines going far beyond the shot-and-a-pint boilermaker. Skip to next paragraph.

Beer-butt chicken grilling technique ensures moist bird
AZ Central.com
1 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic It would be easy to dismiss beer-butt chicken – part classically roasted bird part rowdy keg party – as a misguided grilling experiment. Who in their right mind would shove a can of beer up a chicken’s patootie grill it for hours and expect anything short of disaster?Anyone who likes grilled chicken as moist as butter that’s who. The beer infuses the meat with moistness while the grilling produces a crisp picture-perfect skin. “It might seem strange but beer-butt chicken is really a simple idea that works” said Jon-Paul Hutchins executive chef at Scottsdale Culinary Institute.
Related from Macintoshpost: Get him grilling!

US Beer Sales Rank #1 on 4th of July
MarketWatch
These sales when combined with the activities of distributors retailers and related industries nationwide help support nearly 1. 9 million jobs and generate $190 billion to the U.

Kid Rock to launch American Badass Beer Company
LiveDaily.com
Dubbed American Badass Beer the new beverage will premiere during the Detroit rocker’s upcoming hometown engagement at Comerica Park a two-night stand set for July 17 and July 18. The shows are part of Rock’s in-progress.

Beer for Breasts – events in Palm Beach County
Examiner.com
This week is a little different. Sometimes I feel so passionate about an event that I feel the need to dedicate my writing to that – and in a sense that is what happened this week. The Fourth of July is on Saturday and as always there will be fireworks picnics music and of course – BEER!!!You are going to drink this weekend – you know it and I know it so I am going to ask you that when you do – drink for a good cause!Downtown West Palm Beach will be hosting Fourth on Flagler again this year – an amazing event that features a huge fireworks display activities for the entire family lots of live music food and yep – you guessed it – BEER. But just like everything else in life – not all beer is the same. This year one beer truck is a little different. It is being hosted by the amazing women of The Connie Foundation. The Connie Foundation is a breast cancer foundation that does not give the money to research but instead to the women (and men) who have been afflicted with breast cancer.

Gallup: ‘n Mars They Drink Beer; on Venus Wine’
Dr. Vino
So says the polling group Gallup. In their annual survey of how and what American drinks the smokin’ pollsters at Gallup point to a gender gap where men prefer beer and women prefer wine. (For beer-wine-spirits preferences men are 58-19-18 while women are 21-50-24.