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May 07, 2008
23:01
Organic Beer Dinner at Magnolias
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Mark your calender and reserve your tickets now for the Clipper City beer dinner at Magnolias in Purcellville, Virginia on Thursday, May 22 featuring Oxford Organic Beers, brewers from Clipper City, and me talking about organic beers. The details: Oxford Organic Beer Dinner and Book Signing WHAT: Clipper City Organic beer dinner WHEN: 6-7pm meet the brewers, 7pm dinner, [...]
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There’s a Tinge of Green in the Glass
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Greg Kitsock writes today in his Washington Post column about the growing interest in organic beers. His article begins: “All beers were organic 100 years ago,” says Christopher Mark O’Brien, Silver Spring-based author of “Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World. He goes on to announce the launch of Clipper City’s newly organic Oxford [...]
April 29, 2008
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Drink, Don’t Drive
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My mom sent me this photo today. I love my mom.
April 25, 2008
16:43
Carrotmob Buys Beer, Gets Liquor Store to Go Green
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During her presentation last week at the Craft Brewers Conference, Jenn Orgolini, Director of Sustainability at New Belgium Brewing, discussed a surprise finding in their new study that assessed the lifecycle carbon impact of a six pack of Fat Tire. More than half the greenhouse gas emissions from their flagship beer comes from the refrigeration [...]
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Do Pub Closures Kill Community?
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The front page of today’s Washington Post contains a somber story about mass closings of rural pubs in Ireland. What could be causing the closure of these venerable community institutions in Ireland of all places, the emerald of world pub culture? Prosperity, so they say. (Click image for Washington Post video) Ireland’s booming economy is providing younger folks [...]
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Can Beer Craft Community?
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(This originally appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of American Brewer magazine.) Much of the mainstream beer marketing works hard to convince consumers that drinking a particular brand leads inevitably to good times with friends and family. Beer is a social beverage, so it is understandable that marketers strive to evoke the fellowship of friendly gatherings [...]
April 22, 2008
0:06
Celebrate Earth Day with Beer
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I just returned from five days in San Diego at the Craft Brewers Conference. Over the next few days I hope to post a bit of what I learned there. But first I want to celebrate Earth Day with a beer that’s better than most for people and the planet. Reunion ‘08 is the result of [...]
April 08, 2008
21:36
Hell, Heaven, and Organic Beer
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Some days everything in the world feels just right. Today started out the other way - like we’re doomed to make the same mistakes over and over. The news in the Washington Post was even more depressing than usual: mass rapes in the Congo, budget crises in the state governments, Mugabe continuing to jockey for [...]
April 07, 2008
21:21
Beer, Bands, and Belly Dancers on Earth Day in Atlanta
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For readers in Atlanta looking for something to drink, I mean do, on Earth Day, check out SweetWater Brewing’s 420 Festival. Bands, beer, and a good cause. Who can argue with that? Oh, and last year they had a troupe of belly dancers too! According to a press release from the company, SweetWater also helps campaign [...]
April 06, 2008
20:11
Biere de Garde Dog Needed
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It’s happened more than once. I have a beer for review or that I am saving for something special. Then I have some people over and forget to put that beer away properly. Next thing you know someone is drinking that beer. That’s fine, I’ll get over it, except that it always seems to be someone [...]
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Savoring the Bitter and the Sweet
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We humans have a penchant for both the bitter and the sweet. Beer, for example, is a naturally sweet drink that people have craved since the earliest known civilizations in northern China and Mesopotamia ten thousand years ago (and probably much longer). Beer is produced when water breaks down the starches in grains into simple sugars [...]
March 23, 2008
21:40
Awakening the Best in the Human Spirit
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That’s what the Rhinebeck, NY-based Omega Institute strives to do. And this coming September they’ll show how organic homebrewing is one path to such an awakening when I’ll be offering a two night, two-day intensive course in beer culture, sustainability and brewing. From the course listing in their catalog: During the past three decades, beer drinkers and [...]
14:48
Some Guys Have All the Luck
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Terry Bishop is a lucky bastard. First of all, he runs his own business, Bishop Brand, selling punk rock records, books and movies out of his basement. Okay, so that’s not all just about luck. He probably works his ass off and barely eeks out a living. But, he’s also lucky because he lives about five minutes [...]
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Brew Organic Beer and Roast Organic/Fair Trade Coffee at Home
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Many of my regular readers know that I am part owner of a company called Seven Bridges Cooperative. We sell all organic supplies for home beer-brewing and home coffee roasting (also fair trade). We have a store in Santa Cruz, CA and we do a bustling mailorder business. In the past few years we’ve also [...]
March 06, 2008
20:10
Organic Beer, Session #13 Roundup
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On March 7, 2008 people all over the beer blogosphere are writing about organic beer. This is a roundup of all those posts. It’s part of a monthly group beer blogging event called The Session. The theme for this month’s Session is “Organic Beer” and I’m happy to be your host. Pull up a stool, [...]
March 04, 2008
21:32
A Brewpub in Takoma Park, MD?
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Here is grassroots beer activism at its best. A couple citizens in Takoma Park, Maryland (the neighborhood next to mine, and where my office is located) started a petition asking people to pledge support for what I’d call a “beer-positive” venue in the space of a closed-down restaurant in downtown Takoma Park. Their Takoma Pledge website says: If [...]
February 28, 2008
19:59
Session #13 Reminder: Organic Beer, Friday, March 7
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One week until Session #13. The theme for this Session is Organic Beer. The Short Version The Session is a monthly group beer-blogging event. To participate, just publish a blog post about organic beer by next Friday, March 7. Then let me know that you’ve blogged (by commenting here or on the original announcement post, or using [...]
February 23, 2008
22:20
Origin Ale, Made with the Seeds of Hades
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According to mythology, Persephone ruled as the Queen of Hades when Pluto, God of the Dead, absconded with her for the nether world. Persephone’s mother was Demeter, the goddess of grain. Demeter’s Roman equivalent is Ceres, the goddess whose name gave us the word ‘cereal’ and the Latin root word for beer yeast, ‘cerevisiae.’ Being the [...]
February 17, 2008
22:15
West Virginia Organic Hop Farm
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Bryan George at Brykar Ridge farm in Spencer, West Virginia emailed me inquiring if I knew folks who might be interested in contracting for organic hops. I bet he’ll find some takers so I’m posting his solicitation here on the blog. Basically, just contact him to start a conversation about varieties and volumes. He is currently [...]
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Mississippi Tries to Pop the Cap
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Mississippians for Economic and Beverage Advancement (MEBA) have crafted a bill to allow brewers to craft quaffs with as much as 17% alcohol by volume. That’s up from the current 5% ABV limit. But according to sources inside MEBA, beer distributor lobbyists in the pocket of big Bud (Anheuser-Busch) have orders to kill the bill. Click [...]
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Obama Beer
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Drinking beer and talking politics. Two great past times that taste great together. That is until I read that I live in a so-called “wine track” state. That’s what Thomas Schaller, associate professor of political science at University of Maryland, called Maryland when he grouped it together with California, New Jersey, and Connecticut, as one of [...]
February 10, 2008
17:39
New ‘Green’ Brewery in Beaufort, South Carolina
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Seems like everyone’s catching the green train these days! I can hardly keep up with all the ‘green’ beer news anymore. That’s a good thing, although it does raise the question of just what ‘green’ really means and who, if anyone, is defining it. Brewer’s Brewing, a new brewpub in Beaufort, South Carolina has a link [...]
February 05, 2008
23:43
Clipper City’s New Oxford Organic Ales
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Hugh Sisson at the Bawlmer-based Clipper City Brewing has announced that he’ll be converting his Oxford beer line to be USDA Certified Organic. The Oxford line currently sports a hefeweizen and a raspberry wheat. The funny thing is that I actually talked to Hugh a little over two years ago about whether he’d be willing to [...]
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Sustainable Beer Haiku
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Captain Hops over at Beer Haiku Daily posted this little ditty today in honor of next months beer-blogging Session on organic beer: toasting mother earth pure sustainable brewing now and tomorrow I gotta say, I love the fact that this guy writes a haiku on beer every day. Okay, well, some days he publishes haiku from his readers, but [...]
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Beer U.
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Last minute beer activist event alert. This Thursday night I’ll be giving a talk in Athens, OH on the campus of Ohio University, sponsored by the Sustainable Living Organization. Details as follows: WHAT: Me talking about the two things I love most: drinking beer & saving the world. Come on out and get a signed copy of [...]
February 03, 2008
21:51
Sustainability at the Craft Brewers Conference 2008
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Back in 2004 when Fermenting Revolution was just a twinkle in my eye, I dreamed that one day sustainability would be on the agenda of the brewing industry. So wasn’t I giddy with beer activist pride when Brewers Association Director Paul Gatza recently contacted me to enlist my help with a sustainability-themed track at the [...]
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Savor the Beer and Food in Washington, DC
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Tickets go on sale online tomorrow for Savor, a first-of-its-kind beer and food event featuring pairings of haute cuisine from Federal City Caterers and craft beer from 48 different breweries. The event unfolds in three separate sessions, each limited to 700 attendees. Brewery booths will feature one or two specially selected beers served by the brewers [...]
February 02, 2008
14:09
The Topic for Session #13 Is Organic Beer
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Beer Activist is proud to host Session #13 on March 7, 2008. The topic is “organic beer.” Participants As usual, rules for The Session are minimal. Simply publish a post related to organic beer. Then email me or add a comment on this post to let me know that you’ve published a post. I’ll gather them up [...]
January 30, 2008
0:15
Birmingham Boycotts Bud
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Free the Hops, a specialty beer advocacy group in Alabama, announced a boycott of Anheuser-Busch (A-B) products in the city of Birmingham and Jefferson County Alabama. The group’s president, Stuart Carter, says the boycott is their response to the anti-craft beer lobbying efforts of Birmingham Budweiser lead by the distributor’s vice president, Pat Lynch. Alabama is one [...]
January 29, 2008
18:31
A Taxing Proposal in Maryland
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Got word from Volker Stewart at the Brewer’s Art in Baltimore about Senate Bill 232 in the state of Maryland. A synopsis of the Bill provided here says: Increasing the State tax rates for alcoholic beverages in Maryland from $1.50 to $4.50 per gallon for distilled spirits, from 40 cents to $1.20 per gallon for wine, [...]
January 27, 2008
17:00
Coast Brewing: “Local, Creative, Organic”
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My friend and fellow beer writer Martin Morse Wooster alerted me to an article by Nicole Cendrowski in the Jan/Feb edition of Southern Brewing news about a new microbrewery in North Charleston, South Carolina called Coast Brewing. Husband-wife owners David Merritt and Jaime Tenny say they brew with organic malts, some organic hops and local [...]
January 25, 2008
11:16
5 Acre Organic Hop Farm Planting Soon
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Interested in buying organic hops - or, given the general shortage, any hops? Glen Fuller emailed to let me know he’s putting in five acres of USDA Certified Organic hops in his Paonia, Colorado farm. He invites Beer Activist readers to email or call him directly if you’re interested in putting in a custom order in [...]
January 10, 2008
22:48
Bugs that Drink Beer and Blood
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The New York Times reported Tuesday on Frank Davis and his USDA lab at Mississippi State University. Frank raises and studies armyworms and other agricultural pests. He says his bugs love beer and then love each other. Er, that is to say, drinking beer seems to put them in the mood. Seriously - it’s in [...]
December 15, 2007
21:10
The Dog Flies to Frederick. No Shit.
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Since 1990 the Flying Dog Brewing Company has built a reputation on a claim considered profane by regulatory authorities: “Good beer. No shit.” Company collaborators include a crew of rapscallions the likes of gonzo guzzler Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman. It’s no wonder the company is obscene. Last year, Flying Dog cut its leash [...]
December 08, 2007
9:16
Earth Bread + Brewery
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Tom Baker, former owner of New Jersey-based Heavyweight brewing, announced on Thursday that he and his wife are opening a new brewpub in Mt. Airy, Pennsylvania called Earth Bread + Brewery. Tom posted this note on the Beer Advocate website: We will offer four primary things at Earth: great flatbreads, intriguing wines, the best beers you never [...]
December 05, 2007
20:45
Apparently, Drinking Beer Is the “Business Breakthrough of the Year”
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I woke up this morning and turned my head toward the window. Snow! What a great surprise. I hadn’t heard the forecast so I had no idea this was coming. Turns out these ice crystals boded well for the rest of the day. For those unfamiliar with my “real job,” when I’m not drinking beer, I’m saving the [...]
December 01, 2007
10:44
Fair Trade Coffee Stout from Short’s Brewing and Higher Grounds
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Regular readers may know that I am working on my second book right now. In this one the idea is to do for coffee what Fermenting Revolution tried to do with beer - tell the story of equity and sustainability by reading the coffee grounds, so to speak. That’s right I said “we” because the new [...]
November 27, 2007
22:58
Collaborator Doppelbock: Cheers for this Holiday Cheer
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Brewery: Flying Dog Beer: Wild Dog Collaborator Doppelbock Vitals ABV: 8.3% Plato: 19.5 degrees (original gravity ~ 1.080 - a pretty big beer!) IBUs: label says 30 but website says 24 Malts: Munich “Type I” 2240 75, Munich “Type II 550 19, Cara-Munich 55 2, Cara-Amber 55 2, Melanoidin 55 2 (I know this is more than most people care [...]
November 26, 2007
20:30
Ancient Irish Ale
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A very intriguing story just appeared in Wired magazine about beer on the Emerald Isle (thanks to Dave at Via Negativa for passing this on to me). The story goes like this: about five thousand mounds have been discovered all over Ireland; they are called fulacht fiadh. Essentially, they are rectangular troughs surrounded by burnt stones, [...]
November 18, 2007
19:58
Beer Scores One for Health
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The longest chapter in Fermenting Revolution is about beer and health. My number one health tip for drinkers is: moderation. My number one health tip for immoderate drinkers is: water. Now researchers are saying that beer is better than water for re-hydration. Prof Manuel Garzon, of Granada University in Spain, tested water and beer on subjects who [...]
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Beer and Chips
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When I was a college student living in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, I virtually lived on a diet of warm Tusker beer and chips. Chips as in french fries, not as in crisps. Kenya was colonized by the Brits so Kenyans use the British terminology for fried potato things. My chips of choice were [...]
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Support bacteria. It’s the only culture some of us have.
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I write in Fermenting Revolution about how fermentation is the key factor needed to create many of the world’s staple foods and drinks. Take, for example, this list of just a few of the most obvious: chocolate, coffee, beer, cheese, yogurt, vinegar, and bread. The list could go on and on and cover cultures from [...]
November 17, 2007
13:28
Free the Hops
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According to the grassroots non-profit Alabamans for Specialty Beer (ASB), Alabama is one of only three states in the country to restrict beer according to it’s percentage of alcohol by volume - they cap it at a mere six percent. They also limits beer containers to a size of no more than one pint (16 [...]
November 16, 2007
13:53
National Organic Homebrew Challenge: And the Winners Are . . .
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Woo-hoo! Two homebrewers get to brew their award-winning homebrew recipes at two of America’s finest organic breweries. These are the lucky (and apparently skilled) winners of Seven Bridges’ first annual National Organic Homebrew Challenge. Congratulations to Larry Lynch-Freshner from Boulder Creek, CA for Best of Show and Grand Prize winner of the western division for his [...]
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Beer Activist at Shirlington Library, Busboys & Poets
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