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Carry-out beer in Pennsylvania hard to find

In contrast with neighboring states where carry-out beer is available at convenience stores and gas stations, Pennsylvania prohibits its sale even at supermarkets.  A few grocery stores get around the prohibition by opening adjacent cafes, but they have to provide facilities for customers to drink beer on site.  For more, see here.

Posted by David Fahey on December 6, 2009 at 09:40 AM in Beer, United States | Permalink

Newest "extreme beer": 27% alcohol by volume

Boston Beer Company and Dogfish Head, among others, compete with so-called "extreme beers," very high in alcohol.  The maker of Sam Adams now brews Utopias, 27% alcohol by volume (and illegal in 13 states).

Posted by David Fahey on November 30, 2009 at 03:57 PM in Beer | Permalink

Indian pale ale: an icon of empire (working paper)

An abstract and the full paper (Commodities of Empire Working Papers #13) of Alan Pryor (University of Essex), "Indian Pale Ale: An Icon of Empire," is available here.

Posted by David Fahey on November 30, 2009 at 03:06 PM in Beer, Britain, India | Permalink

Beer Cans & Brewery Collectibles (magazine)

For a summary of the August/September 2009 issue of Beer Cans & Brewery Collectibles and links to TOC through 2005, see here. 

Posted by David Fahey on November 29, 2009 at 09:06 AM in Beer, Brewing | Permalink

American Breweriana Journal

American Breweriana Journal
No. 161 September-October, 2009
Neons of North America Rich Wagner
Weiss Beer Breweries Henry herbst, Don Roussin and Kevin Kious
The Sehring Brewery: Triumph and Tragedy Jack Sullivan
The Conrad Seipp Brewing Company Bob Lay

Posted by David Fahey on November 27, 2009 at 08:58 PM in Beer, Brewing , United States | Permalink

Mittelman's Brewing Battles (book review)

Howard R. Stanger reviews Amy Mittelman, Brewing Battles: A History of American Beer, in Business History Review 83/2 (Summer 2009): 381-384.

Posted by David Fahey on November 27, 2009 at 08:48 PM in Beer, Book Reviews, Brewing , United States | Permalink

The History of German Brewing in St. Louis

Eoghan P. Miller, "St. Louis's German brewing industry: Its rise and fall" (M.A. Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2008)  This thesis is available in its entirety online here.

Posted by Dave Trippel on November 27, 2009 at 01:55 PM in Beer, Brewing | Permalink

Pashley's History of Beer in Canada (book review)

For Beppi Crosariol's review of Nicholas Pashley, Cheers! An intemperate History of Beer in Canada (HarperCollins Canada, 2009), see here.

Posted by David Fahey on November 18, 2009 at 05:32 PM in Beer, Book Reviews, Canada | Permalink

Palestine's Oktoberfest

The Christian founded Palestinian Oktoberfest, as reported here, is now able to include Moslems with its new non-alcoholic beer reported here .

Posted by Dave Trippel on October 4, 2009 at 04:10 PM in Beer, Drinking Spaces, Israel, Palestine | Permalink

Beer in Britain (book)

Martyn Cornell, Amber, Gold and Black: The History of Britain's Great Beers (History Press, forthcoming 2010).

Posted by David Fahey on September 29, 2009 at 05:05 PM in Beer, Books, Britain | Permalink