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May 16, 2008

May 9, 2008

Maybe it’s just me but hasn’t this seemed like the longest week ever? (Obviously it’s not because I have been so hard at work posting here on this blog.) Whatever your week’s work situation, we all deserve to celebrate this afternoon with a tall icy cold one. Although if you are in an adventurous mood — […]

April 29, 2008

The awesomeness that is beer doesn’t need to be debated, but I happened to come across an article about how City Brewery in La Crosse is helping fight both the energy crisis and global warming. The former G. Heileman Brewery is supplying methane to the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation, which is using the biogas to […]

April 24, 2008

While blogging is slowly making inroads into mainstream media outlets and other corporate environments, there aren’t yet a lot of 9 to 5, regular paycheck jobs out there for bloggers. James Arndorfer, though, has landed a pretty good gig running Brew Blog for Miller Brewing.
According to a piece in the Wall Street Journal, Miller started […]

April 12, 2008

There’s an awful lot of bad economic news out there, but a story today in the LaCrosse Tribune made me especially sad. Apparently there is a worldwide shortage of hops and prices are expected to remain high for the foreseeable future.
Forget about rising energy costs, the collapsing credit and housing markets, and declining stocks, the […]

March 10, 2008

Interesting article in the Journal Sentinel about New Glarus Brewing just south of Madison. Business has been pretty good for the craft brewery, so good in fact that the company is building a second brewery to keep up with demand. Last year New Glarus sold 65,000 barrels of beer, second to Leinenkugel’s (465,000 barrels) in […]

February 29, 2008

Since it is Friday afternoon I figured it’s a good time to post something about beer, even if it is old news.
I discovered while updating the layout of the site and testing links that the Huber Brewery in Monroe, Wisconsin, is no longer. The brewery and its brands were all purchased in 2006 by Ravinder […]