Silflay Hraka

Compiled with the assistance of the V12

Our vintage-dated, Belgian-style specialty ale, offered in corked 25.4 oz. bottles, is a sensation in subtlety.

Heady with a aromatic fruity start and taste, this amber ale features hints of pear and apricot in its well-nuanced flavor. The initial impression of fruitiness concludes in a refreshing dryness that begs you to sip again. Be fore- warned, this ale is immense as it registers 12% abv.

Reviewed here.
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Neo-Prohibition in Tennesee.

But now the state of Tennessee is poised to make it mandatory that every single person in the state must “show the proper I.D.” (a phrase that fairly begs to be said in a thick, German accent) with no exception. One foot in the grave? Too bad, prove you’re an adult. Grey-haired Grandpa out with his grandbabies in tow? Too bad, you just might be wearing old man makeup. U.S. Senator, a position you can’t hold unless you’re at least 30 years old? Too bad, no exceptions. It’s called the “The Tennessee Responsible Vendor Act” and it goes into effect on July 1. As is typical with these neo-prohibitionist programs, it claims to be designed to combat underage drinking. That is, of course, a completely deceptive lie insofar as it will do nothing of the kind. Making a 90-year old person so obviously over 21 that only a person with an I.Q. below 50 (such as someone with a moderate mental disability or a neo-prohibitionist) will not stop one underage person from obtaining alcohol. What it will do is make it more difficult and annoying for everyone, instead of just the people “lucky” enough to look younger.

In their press release of “Success Stories,” the neo-prohibitionist group Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center celebrates their victory in getting this law passed and characterizes the law as “an innovative and strong step in the fight against underage drinking. The mandatory ID provision of this law is the first of its’ kind in the country and establishes Tennessee as a national leader on the initiative to stop underage drinking.” Yet they fail, as does every single other account of this law, to say exactly how or why requiring “anyone purchasing beer for off-premise consumption to present identification” will in any way reduce underage drinking. I think there’s a good reason no one is discussing why this law will reduce underage drinking. It’s because it doesn’t stand up to any logic or scrutiny, so it’s best to just use meaningless platitudes.
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Have you seen the Canadian men, eh? 27% of Canadian women would rather have beer than sex, though after enough beer a significant number probably ends up with both.
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Party in Namibia!
According to a research finding by some group, averagely a Namibian takes something like 30 bottles of beer per week

So in the end, 30 beer bottles is nothing and somehow, somewhere I think that the people that carried out this research were a bit biased. There is just no possible reality that averagely we take 30 bottles, be it dumpy or omukonyo’s. If you would ask me, I think the margin would be somewhere in the 50s.
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Everything you have, you can thank beer for.
“Because before beer was discovered, people used to wander around and follow goats from place to place. And then they realized that this grain [barley] could be grown and sprouted and made into a bread and crumbled and converted into a liquid which gave a nice, warm, cozy feeling. So gone were the days that they followed goats around. They stayed put while the grain grew and while the beer was brewed. And they made villages out of their tents. And those villages became towns, and those towns became cities. And so here we are in New York, thanks to beer.”
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Brewing the weird beer.
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Highland Brewery’s Dark Munro has been voted Champion Beer of Scotland
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Firewater heap bad. Firewater blockade worse.
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Brew Reviews: Dogo Botchan, Brooklyn Beer’s Double Chocolate Stout, Long Hammer IPA, Don de Dieu, Castlemaine XXXX Export Gold Much like Canadians, Australians consider beer to be a big part of their national heritage. And as in Canada, the beer that most Aussies raise in honour of their country and culture is, quite frankly, crap.
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Tora! Tora! Terrible! Japanese Beer classifications.
There are a large selection of “Real” beers made with conventional quantities of malt. Second grade beer is called Happoshu and contains less than 25% malt. The third class is cleverly called “3rd Beer” which contains no malt. Under this is an even lower grade called “3rd Beer -liquor”. The primary differences from a consumers point of view are price and taste. As you descend down the ladder of classifications you can buy beer-like products for amazingly cheap prices. To buy a can of “3rd beer” is almost cheaper than leaving it on the shelf! This is all due to tax concessions on the lower grades. The downside of reaching the lower ends of the beer spectrum are taste. Some of these low malt beers taste bad and the rest taste really bad. There are a few exceptions but for the most part you get what you pay for with Japanese beer.
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Hic.
Oh, Canada, thy green and pleasant land. Where the beer is neat, and every week, shipped to Afghanistan!
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Beer and the Almighty
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Hey! Apparently beer can go with food. Who knew?
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Buckeye Brewing knew, and have opened a fine dining establishment. Fortunately, they have stayed with the basics.

His tiny kitchen lacks space for even an oven, and his repertoire is mostly limited to that which can be grilled on the flattop or plopped in the deep fryer. He manages to crank out a surprisingly large array of respectable eats. True, many items, including the shoestring fries, are frozen, and the tender pulled pork is poured out of a bag.

Good man, though you’ll have to go elsewhere for your black pepper pork belly made with chili jam and stout.

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Chateau Jihau, the 9,000 year old brew.

“If you have pottery vessels, they are very useful in making a beverage and also storing and serving and drinking it,” says Dr. McGovern. “Often the beverage will be absorbed into the pottery and it will be held in the pottery by the clay matrix, the pores. The Jia Hu mixed beverage is so far the earliest chemically attested alcoholic beverage or wine from anywhere in the world. I think it’s really quite remarkable that it doesn’t come from Middle East. People often assume the first wine and first beer has to be from the Middle East, but it comes from China.”
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Beer Delivery goes East.

The change is indicative of the shifts under way in the $450bn (£225bn) global beer industry. SABMiller’s Chinese beer Snow has just become the company’s biggest brand, ahead of Miller Lite which is brewed in the US. Thanks to Snow, SABMiller, the world’s second-largest brewer, now brews most of the beer made in China, moving ahead of the previous market leader Tsingtao (in which SABMiller’s US arch rival Anheuser-Busch, the world’s number three, holds a large stake). Analysts expect Snow to shoot into the world’s top four beer brands behind Budweiser, Brazil’s Skol and Mexico’s Corona.
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You don’t want to be a supertaster.
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“S” beer. It’s for your ass

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July is Oregon Craft Beer Month

via Brookston
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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

The heck with fly fishing. There are far more interesting lures.

Plus, you’d never need a cork.