Beer for breakfast. What a beautiful concept. Check out the process here.

Thanks to Ned for this link.

Apparently in China, PBR is incredibly classy and expensive.

Considering I once spent an evening in Muscatine, Iowa on a throne of stacked beer cases, drinking a case of cold PBRs while wearing a Burger King crown with a beer label slapped on it, I dare you to say that beer is classy.

Drinkable, party worthy, but classy? Nah. And that case didn’t cost us much more than $20 if memory serves.

I should totally open up one of these.

I mean, a library AND a bar! That is completely my thing.

We were coming back from California when I heard something related to this and then saw the Maddow bit later. Check out the story and some recipes, plus watch this:

Plus some more bits from the MaddowBlog (recipes).

At some point when I wasn’t paying attention, moonshine got trendy. Who knew?

Now, I’m not a huge Sam Adams fan, but there’s no doubt that Jim Koch has changed the way beer is made in this country and for that I salute him.

For the rest of you idjuts sucking down lite beers, you don’t know what you’re missing.

I’ve been way too serious on here lately. Here is a writeup on some of the very good Belgian-style ales you should be drinking.

Little did I know that the UK has tens of thousands of pint glass injuries every year, costing the nation almost 3 billion pounds a year in medical costs. They are now working on a shatter-proof pint glass to reduce these injuries.

Make takes a look at both designs under consideration:

I love that this trend is back.

It’s always fun to get attached to a local brew and then be able to take some home. Growlers are key to this ritual and should I ever live in a place that has good regional microbrews again, I’ll be using this service.

Here is a story from Chicago on the subject.