All Beer Blog

The Chicago Tribune reports that Chicago’s local craft brewery, Goose Island Co. has introduced a new brew. Sophie, a Belgian-style brew comes in a 22oz bottle for around $8-$9. They said it has already sold out, maybe I will find a bottle to review!

SABMiller has gotten permission from the South African country of Nambia to import beer there. The group plans to build a brewery sometime in the near future.

The University of Memphis netted $114,576 in beer sales over the past weekend’s game versus the University of Mississippi! That was more than half of the food sales, that’s a lot of beer!

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Beer News

The Chicago Tribune reports that the Chicago AleFest is to be at Soldier Field. The event is on Saturday, July 11th, 2009 and will have about 150 different craft brews! More info at Alefest.com.

ScienceDaily reports about a German technical director who found a way to turn used grains into more energy after the brewing process had ended. Apparently the used grains can be turned into steam, lowering brewery energy costs.

Apparently beer inspired the heckling at the USGA U.S. Open tourney over the weekend. Fans were heckling many golfers and beer sales were cut 15 minutes early as a result. If you ask me, golfers are too sensitive. There were some uncalled for comments made, though.

Brick House Tavern is serving beer in bong-style glasses and reports no profit loss in tough times. They also offer PBR cans served in brown paper bags too. They say these are great attractions. Their first chain opened here in Chicago and branched out as far as Houston.

Beer and pizza will be shipped to our troops over seas in the Middle East. I think this is a great way to remind them of home and their traditional 4th of July celebrations, which I am sure they all miss. The only problem is the beer being sent is Coors Light and Miller Lite, I think they could have sent a better selection or taken suggestions. The pizza is from Pizzaria Uno (based in Chicago), which is acceptable.

Molson has stopped giving free beer to its retirees. Apparently the 2,400 people who used to work at the Molson brewery were receiving free beer, not anymore. Current employees still receive free beer but the amount has been drastically reduced.

The Examiner explains that for cheap beer these days, you have to brew it yourself. Apparently it only costs big brewers about 5 cents for ingredients to brew their beer. Why do we have to pay so much? Brew your own, I am starting this weekend, I will have pictures!

The National Beer Tax threatens small breweries all across the United States. The Examiner reports that a drastic decrease in the choice of beer could be the case if we do not act soon.

Support your local breweries, contact your Senators now!

More state tax on beer, liquor and wine? Illinois legislative leaders are trying to raise the state’s tax on beer by 2.6 cents a six pack. They are also trying to legalize video poker machines. All this to fund construction, why don’t they finish one part of the construction before they start a new one or fix it the first time?

A longtime Cincinnati Red’s sponser, Burger Beer is returning to the market. They have announced that they will be able to brew the beer, under license, in Wisconsin. They say it will hit the market in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky and then eventually the rest of the upper Midwest.

The Huntsville Times reports that people in Alabama are lobbying to have the state allow beer with an alcohol content of 13,9% alc/vol to be sold in stores. Currently, beer with an alcohol content of 6% or lower are the only ones allowed to be sold.