What’s Buzzing in the World of Beer?

Posted by Baylen on Nov. 10, 2009

skitched-20091110-085910.jpgMaine lawmakers already looking to amend new law permitting stores to hold beer and wine tastings. Seems one provision in the law–wouldn’t you know it, but it’s “for the children”–has forced store owners “to cover [the] front and back door windows with black and drape a sheet across the large storefront windows” anytime they want to do a tasting. [Bangor Daily News]

One man’s guns for beer program backfires. [Crossville Chronicle]

Texas says you can give away beer, you just can’t tell people you’re going to give it away beforehand. Or something. [Clocking In]

Oh, the humanity! This beer’s “quite putrid”! Lowenbrau from the Hindenburg disaster up for auction. (As an aside, is it really a “disaster” when a Nazi airship covered by swastikas blows up?) [BBC]

Sam Adams brews up a beer with 27% alcohol. Available for a mere $150 per bottle. [Houston Chronicle]

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  • As usually happens, I stand corrected.
  • Jackson
    I love me some zeppelins!
  • Jackson
    As an aside, is it really a “disaster” when a Nazi airship covered by swastikas blows up?

    Yes, it is. Hugo Eckener, mgr of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, hated the Nazis and was nearly carted off to a concentration camp for it. The swastikas only appeared on the tailfins after the company was nationalized (against the company's wishes).

    German zeppelins, with their passenger and mail services, were among the few worthwhile contributions Germany gave during the inter-war period, but, like everything good in German culture, the Nazis shat all over them.
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