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Pairing Beer With Your Zodiac Sign
- Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Anchor Humming Ale
- Pisces (Feb. 19–Mar. 20): Theakston Paradise Ale
- Aries (Mar. 21–Apr. 19): Killian’s Irish Red (Coors)
- Taurus (Apr. 20–May 20): Guinness Stout
- Gemini (May 21–June 21): Corona, with a slice of lime
- Cancer (June 22–July 22): Newcastle Brown Ale
- Leo (July 23–Aug. 22): Chimay
- Virgo (Aug. 23–Sep. 22): Anchor Summer Ale
- Libra (Sep. 23–Oct. 23): Smithwick’s Draught
- Scorpio (Oct. 24–Nov. 21): Theakston Old Peculiar
- Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): Russian River Pliny the Younger
- Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Samuel Smith Indian Pale Ale (sic)
Corona, with a slice of lime. What?!?!?!?!
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Mark your calendars, folks. History is being made. Never before has the same model been chosen as the St. Pauli Girl for two years in a row. But now Katarina Van Derham has taken that honor. According to a rep from Crown Imports, owner of the brand, this was a fairly easy decision: “Katarina is extremely knowledgeable about beer, and has even received training from the Siebel Institute of Beer Technology. She’s also an actress and model, having appeared on Entourage, CSI: and Monk.” For those who think all things are now settled, don’t be lulled into a false sense of security. There’s still the matter of the official poster. The brand is putting up two posters (click the images above to enlarge) and asking people to choose which is best. Damn you, Crown Imports! When can we finally put this matter to rest?
—Posted by Todd Wasserman
Mar 06
Sea Monster Imperial Stout by Ballast Point Brewery , San Diego, CA
Bear Republic’s Big Bear Black Stout„,There is a God
Feb 27
Stone Imperial Russian Stout Saturday..yum
Feb 24
Early Times
By Stan Hieronymus
History is never farther away than your next glass of beer. “If (beer) is…the people’s beverage…its history must of necessity go hand in hand, so to speak, with the history of that people, with the history of its entire civilization,” historian John Arnold wrote at the beginning of the twentieth century. Sometimes that history comes full circle. In 1989, nearly 4,000 years after an anonymous poet wrote a “Hymn to Ninkasi,” the Sumerian Goddess of Brewing, Anchor Brewing used the verse as a guide, making a beer (visit Sumarian Beer Project) that included bread, honey and date syrup as ingredients to emulate one brewed another millennium before the hymn was written. We’re not drinking beer like Anchor brewed for its Sumerian Beer Project anymore. Although one document from about 400 B.C. names at least 15 different kinds of beer that pales in comparison to the number of varieties, generally known as styles (see Style Finder), available today. Many such beers come with their own history. For instance, porter was the first one produced on an industrial scale, and the wood vats it matured in were so large UK breweries christened them by holding dinner parties for hundreds within their confines.The People’s Beverage
So how old is beer? From the time men first domesticated grains about 8000 B.C. they might have brewed beer and inhabitants of various parts of the world certainly were brewing by 3500 B.C. Soon it was the most popular alcoholic beverage in Mesopotamia—beer idioms became part of language and the government took to taxing beer consumption—a position it has enjoyed in most of the world ever since.
