Beer and Brewing Journal

This has been posted over the last 24 hours on different blogs and newsites. I pulled this from Lew Bryson's blog:

"Boston Beer has announced a voluntary recall of bottles that may contain small bits of glass. Check all your bottles of Samuel Adams beers for the following code at the base of the bottle: N35 O-I . These are the only numbers that matter: if the bottle has an N35 code, take it back to your retailer. "

Please see the Sam Adams recall notice here.

Hey why pair a beer with your food when you should pair food with your beer!
One dish I love making is my italian sausage sandwich. Boil some italian sausages in budweiser, cut up some peppers and onions, fry them up, heat up some buns, and you're golden. Add a thin strip of mustard and ketchup and start eating.
I was drinking my Irish Red homebrew when I decided to cook this up. The food paired nicely with the beer. My Irish Red is not that bitter which works out great with this meal since their aren't any particular strong, overpowering flavors....mainly just sweetness. The sweetness of the sandwich marries nicely with the low bitter, malt forward ale.

Well, as I mentioned below, I was bummed when my local store pulled a bunch of local craft beers from the shelf and replaced it with some imported beers. They have an imported beer section so it was odd to plop them in where they did. I talked with the store staff a couple of times about this and who knows, maybe others spoke to them too.
Well yesterday I go in and much to my surprise and pleasure, the imported beers were pulled (and placed with the imports) and replaced with Allagash Triple Reserve and Allagash White.
I would still like to speak with the buyer because they originally had Moylans in this spot. I don’t know if there is a distribution issue or if the buyer just wanted to try something else. Anyway, good news and glad we could help.

In my post below about the disappearance of the Brother David wax seal, Anderson Valley Brewing Company has posted a comment:

Hi there,Thanks for writing about Brother David's. I'm the GM here at AVBC and I thought I would let you know about the wax.

Turns out there was an issue I didn't know about:
We have had complaints from people that the wax was hard to get off and was leaving a funky smell behind, so we decided to discontinue it.

and one we have all been affected by:
The price increase was due to higher cost such as transportation and ingredients. Barley is up about 75% from last year and hops are up 400% (if you can get them)Thanks for all the support and Bahl Hornin!

Anyway, pretty cool that I got a response from AVBC. I appreciate them taking the time to comment......also let's me know some folks are reading!