Beer Bottle Building

Since I have some home brew reviews that I want to post consecutively later this week I am shaking up my typical schedule again by doing beer news on what is normally a beer review day.  With the pumpkin beer evaluations last week and the first “Random Thought Monday” yesterday, I am just going to keep things a bit out of order for a while longer.

Now I will kick off (what I think is) the first ever Tuesday beer news with . . .

• A story that was sent to me by The Wife of a man in Argentina who built his house out of millions of empty beer bottles.  Maybe this is a hint that she wants me to fill our garage with empties for future building project purposes?

• Growing water scarcity around the world and increasing pressure to cut consumption has led AB InBev (and many other companies) to look at ways to cut their water use and still increase production levels.  It seems to me like that just makes too much sense to do, water scarcity or not.

• Though primarily using examples from the D.C. area, this article speaks of how the craft beer market and specifically those higher end brews are (at least) maintaining popularity through this time of a down economy.

• My love of beer, food, and travel would not let me pass up the opportunity to share a short piece about beer and pork knuckles in Bavaria.  Perhaps this is something to add to (or remove from) your travel itinerary to Germany?

• Last but not least is a drinking game to add to your March Madness fun, though judging by some of the rules you won’t remember much of the action after about half time of the first game.  However I will say that if number fifteen actually happens (which is what caught my eye with this one), I will need far more than one pitcher to make me feel better!

Better have a few poured and ready for the tournament!

Sláinte!