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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Comfort Food & Beer

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:15:54 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Comfort Food & Beer Friends and regular Bulletin readers will already be aware of my obsession with comfort foods. Almost all of my favorite foods fall into that category: frites, potato chips, bacon, shepherd's pie, Monte Cristo sandwiches, cheese, peanut butter pie and pretty much anything fried. So a few weeks ago, when I got a call from my [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer From Early 1800s Found In Baltic Shipwreck

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:16:10 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer From Early 1800s Found In Baltic Shipwreck CNN is reporting that the World's 'Oldest Beer' Found in Shipwreck in the Baltic Sea off the coast of the Åland Islands . The Ålands are an autonomous group of nearly 6,000 islands near Finland. The cargo ship is believed to have been sailing from Denmark, most likely Copenhagen, sometime between 1800 and 1830 possibly bound for St. Petersburg, [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer In Ads #186: Bieres De La Meuse

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:55:47 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer In Ads #186: Bieres De La Meuse
Thursday's ad is a second French poster with the title Bieres de la Meuse and the less well know of the two, because the other was done by the well-known artist Alphonse Mucha. It doesn't quite have the majesty of the Mucha poster, but it's very striking in its own right.

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Jay Brooks commented on the blog post FMB vs. PAB

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:19:02 +0000

Jay Brooks commented on the blog post FMB vs. PAB Craig, I'm sure they are, but so what? It shouldn't really matter if they appeal to kids and adults because people under the age of 21 are not permitted to buy them no matter what. So why should it matter at all if Santa Claus appeals to kids? I like Santa Claus, as do many [...]

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Jay Brooks commented on the blog post FMB vs. PAB

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:40:34 +0000

Jay Brooks commented on the blog post FMB vs. PAB Trevor. Yeah, I agree that FMB is the best for an "official" designation, Alcopops for fun.

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: FMB vs. PAB

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:13:32 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: FMB vs. PAB Did I miss a meeting? The malt beverages that are flavored with something else — fruit, essence of liquor or whatever — have been called by many names. Alcopop is always the one that first leaps to mind, even though that's supposedly a derogatory term. Why? Apparently adding "pop" makes it for the kiddies, something [...]

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Jay Brooks commented on the blog post More Craft Beer Sales Data

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:53:17 +0000

Jay Brooks commented on the blog post More Craft Beer Sales Data Sort of. I suspect the reason is that while Sierra is #1 in the Top 15, their Seasonals are #9 and Torpedo is #11. Boston Beer, by contrast, in addition to the #2 spot with Boston Lager also has #3 with Samuel Adams Seasonals (and the dollar difference between #2 and #3 is very small. [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: More Craft Beer Sales Data

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:57:43 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: More Craft Beer Sales Data Last week I shared some of the highlights from the Brewers Association 's bi-monthly Power Hour session that Ray Daniels tweeted about throughout the hour, whose topic was " Craft Brewing & Mid-Year Category Sales Review ." As a BA member, I also was able to look at the presentation after the fact and — with the Brewers Association's permission [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer In Ads #185: Trinkt Sternenberg Bier

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:18:24 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer In Ads #185: Trinkt Sternenberg Bier Wednesday's ad is for another Swiss beer, Brauerei Zum Sternenberg, from Basel. With the tagline "Trinkt Sternenberg Bier" or drink Sternenberg beer, the artwork resembles an illustration from a children's book. The "king" sits on a throne with brewer's stars on each arm and there's one behind him, too. Below the throne, a triple tap [...]

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Jay Brooks commented on the blog post Heavy Drinkers Outlive Abstainers

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:54:02 +0000

Jay Brooks commented on the blog post Heavy Drinkers Outlive Abstainers I didn't see that one, but the mortality study didn't show a difference for gender as far I know. There have been other studies that have shown certain cancer risks for women who drink alcohol (I forget if that was moderate or heavy female drinkers). There are individual diseases that put women (and men) at [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer In Ads #184: Barclay's Lager, Light Or Dark

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:37:15 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer In Ads #184: Barclay's Lager, Light Or Dark Tuesday's ad is for the London brand Barclay's Lager. Getty Images claims it's from around 1900 but the artist, Tom Purvis , was born in 1888 meaning he'd have been 12 then, so it seems more likely it was actually later. The ad reminds me a bit of the Blues Brothers movie, the scene at the bar where [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: KQED Debates SF Alcohol Tax

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:58:56 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: KQED Debates SF Alcohol Tax On KQED Radio this morning on the local show Forum with Michael Krasney held a defacto debate on the proposed Alcohol Mitigation Fee between San Francisco Brewers Guild president Rich Higgins and city supervisor John Avalos, who introduced the ordinance to tax alcohol sold in San Francisco. Rich held his own as best he could, but Avalos is [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer Production & Consumption Worldwide

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:57:39 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer Production & Consumption Worldwide Here's another interesting infographic that nicely shows both the production and consumption of beer worldwide. It's interesting to see the relationship between the two for each nation side by side. You can then easily work out how much beer they export or how much beer is imported into each country. One caveat, it shows Europe [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: A Reminder: Play Fantasy Football At The Bulletin

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:26:05 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: A Reminder: Play Fantasy Football At The Bulletin There's only two days left before the new NFL season of football begins on Thursday night. And as we've done for the past few years, there are two simple games for Bulletin readers to play, and plenty of room to fit as many as want to play (or at least the first 50 people anyway). [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Heavy Drinkers Outlive Abstainers

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:35:24 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Heavy Drinkers Outlive Abstainers Many different studies have shown that people who drink alcohol in moderation liver longer than binge drinkers and abstainers. Anti-alcohol groups, and especially AA, have petulantly insisted the reason that abstainers show up in the data as having shorter lifespans than moderate drinkers is because they are all former heavy drinkers who stopped drinking after the [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer In Ads #183: Trinkt Zurcher Lowenbrau

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:37:44 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: Beer In Ads #183: Trinkt Zurcher Lowenbrau
Monday's ad is for the Swiss brand Löwenbräu. "Trinkt Furcher Zöwenbräu" is essentially "drink Swiss Löwenbräu." It was done by the Swiss artist Otto Baumberger. I love the look of the mug.

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: The Future Of Good Beer Is Cans?

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:57:13 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: The Future Of Good Beer Is Cans? Gizmodo has an interesting article on Friday speculating that Canned Beer Is The Future of Good Beer . Like most Gizmodo articles, it's in-your-face opinionated (especially in the comments, where it turns decidedly loopy) but makes most of the points we all know about that are advantages for canned beer. I don't believe cans will ever replace bottles entirely, [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: How Much Money Does The Government Make From Alcohol?

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:09:47 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: How Much Money Does The Government Make From Alcohol? The Turbo Tax Blog last month had an interesting post looking at the question of How Much Money Does The Government Make From Alcohol? It's an overview, of course, and doesn't include some of the dirty details that make alcohol the most taxed consumer good out there (though tobacco is pretty high, too), but there certainly is some [...]

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Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: The Science Of Smell

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:39:36 +0000

Jay Brooks wrote a new blog post: The Science Of Smell NPR's Science Friday had a show last week devoted to The Science of Smell . If you've ever taken tasting beer seriously, you know how important smell is to the flavor of beer (and everything else). Host Ira Flatow discussed Olfaction with research scientists Stuart Firestein and Donald Wilson. The show's only a little under 18 minutes but [...]

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Jay Brooks commented on the blog post Beer In Ads #182: Art Nouveau Beer Lady

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:59:13 +0000

Jay Brooks commented on the blog post Beer In Ads #182: Art Nouveau Beer Lady Mostly just a wild guess, and the fact that it does resemble Mucha and the art nouveau style (which I can't help but associate with the French).

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