A Fair Amount

It seems that it was a bit of a slow week for me in the way of finding really interesting beer news.  There was a fair amount out there (see below), but not enough to make deciding what to share very tough.  I may be over generalizing a bit, but the hot summer months do tend to be a little slower in craft beer sales as people look for more thirst quenchers than hop bombs.  People in that case does not include myself, but based on my discussions with industry friends in town I do think it is pretty accurate.  Not to worry though, you will be seeing fall seasonals on the shelves in a few weeks and more news will come along with them.

Enough rambling . . .

• Being partly owned by A-B InBev already may soon turn into being completely controlled by the beer industry giant for the Craft Brewers Alliance.  It is far from a done deal, but it is not exactly a stretch either.
• I am not even close to needing another beer book on my shelf as I already have a handful of half-read ones that will last me another year, but I do like to keep up on what is coming out.  Since I read his work in BeerAdvocate Magazine I plan to at least flip through his book the next time I find myself in a book store.
• This story just missed the deadline for the beer news last week and I rarely will pass up passing along a story involving Genesee so it had to be in this week.  With this new acquisition/combination in the craft beer world maybe I will see some more Genesee products down here alongside the Magic Hat?
• Usually I pass along medical studies that indicate some sort of benefit from drinking beer, but the news can’t all be good I guess.
• After starting to grow some of their own barley and hops some time ago, Sierra Nevada will soon line the shelves with the first beer that they have achieved organic certification for via the USDA.

Sierra Nevada Estate Homegrown Ale (via http://beernews.org/)

Cheers!