Silflay Hraka

Love in a Eel-evator.

Collated and compiled with the aid of Franziskaner Hefe-Weisse Dunkel

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Taking on Wine in its stronghold: Beer and Cheese
Many red wines are excellent with rich meat; if you have a porterhouse steak, by all means open up a big tannic cabernet sauvignon. But think of how that same wine would taste if you were to chase it with a slug of whole milk. Fresh cheeses like mozzarella are not too far off from fresh milk, and so big reds might not make the best pairing. White wine in particular can be great with cheese, but it does not hold true across all types of wine.

In contrast, beer is guzzled with cheeseburgers and sausage pizza alike, as the hops and carbonation clean the palate of both milk and meat. Not only is beer versatile, it is sometimes inspired: the fruity qualities of some beer can emphasize the same characteristic in cheese, and nut and caramel flavors in malty beers go with aged cheeses.
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Brew Debuts:

She ran calling Wildfire.

Pay no attention to that brewery behind the curtain.
It’s called “St. Urbain,” available in several varieties, and its merchandising is highly evocative of that storied street right in the heart of our fair burgh. Unfortunately, it’s just another Labatt product.

That’s right. You won’t find “Labatt” anywhere on the box or label, but if you look closely it says it’s from “Oland Specialty Beers.” Oland is the Nova Scotia brewery that was bought by Labatt some 20 or so years ago. Before then, Oland was a regional brewery. Now the name persists only for marketing purposes, and as a subsidiary company that distributes so-called “specialty beers” like Keith’s and St. Urbain.
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News From Mordor: Anheuser-Busch, takeover target?

Perhaps a new owner could improve the distribution system.
At the start of prime beer-selling season, bars and retailers are facing low inventories of Stella, as well as Bass, Beck’s and other European beers made by InBev SA, the world’s largest brewer, of Leuven, Belgium.

The reason: Anheuser-Busch Cos. has run into distribution problems since becoming the exclusive U.S. importer of 19 of InBev’s European brands in February.

There’s a new Mouth Of Sauron in town.
Jeff Johansen joins Miller on July 9 as vice president of innovation. He brings to the job extensive experience in consumer products innovation. Most recently, he was Innovation Partner at S.C. Johnson, where he established a new product division to identify and commercialize new categories

Before that, he was at Kellogg, where he served as vice president – morning and wholesome snacks.

I for one cannot wait to taste the new Tony The Tiger Beer. I hear it’s…………………………………..
…………………wait for it……..oh, never mind.

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“R2, that stabilizer’s broken loose again…see if you can’t lock it down. And get me a beer.“

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So trendy my eyes hurt. An ever-so-tasteful gallery of chic little beer buckets.

My chic little beer bucket is a 60-gallon white cooler. I’ve never yet had a complaint about it at a party.
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Podcasts: Legends in New Suffolk
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You’re the leader of the Free World, and you have to drink Buckler. Sucks to be you.
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Can’t We all just get along? The heartbreak of the beer-mead vs wine-mead divide.
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“I’m a very good driver, a very good driver!” The Heuristics of Beer
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True Dat. ”A lot of the people who are beer geeks are actually bigger snobs than the wine people — just without the money,”
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Iron City returns from the dead
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Brew Reviews: Black Oak Brewing Pale Ale, Baltica #6 Porter, Young’s Old Nick
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The previous Carnival of Beer may be seen here.
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The Carnival of Beer appears every Tuesday and Friday. If you’ve an item you like to see appear, let us know via bigwig AT nc.rr.com

After they’ve seen Paree?

Fenn is coordinator of the World Wildlife Fund’s campaign against a proposed mining project near Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. The locals strongly support the project and want the jobs, development, improved living standards and environmental quality the state-of-the-art operation will bring.

But Fenn claims the mine will change the “quaint” village and harm the environment. He says he feels “like a resident,” his children “were born and raised” there, and the locals “don’t consider education to be important” and would just spend their money on parties, jeans and stereos.

Suppose an American politician came out against welfare checks to African Americans because they’d just spend the money on “parties, jeans and stereos.”

Obviously a racist statement, yes? Any politician dumb enough to issue sucha statement would be pilloried almost immediately. Why should Mark Fenn be treated any differently? He’s all but called the inhabitants of Fort Dauphin pickanninies, after all.

“People here have no jobs,” Mark Fenn admitted, after taking documentary producers on a tour of his $35,000 catamaran and the site of his new coastal home. “But if you could count how many times they smile in a day, if you could measure stress” and compare that with “well-off people” in London or New York, “then tell me, who is rich and who is poor?”

Happy little pickaninnies!