Not until I sat down to write this post did I realize how many of these stories involved places I have interest in traveling to or, in one case, a place that I will be in the near future. As often happens, I must thank The Wife and The Mother-in-law for passing along some interesting items this week.
A fair amount from overseas . . . .
- The news continues to be the same in regard to beer consumption in the United States. Over the last year beer sales overall are down while craft sales continued to improve and import sales turned in a positive direction.
- After reading the first story and knowing the sectors that have declined the most over the last year it should be no surprise what beers Americans are no longer drinking in the same volume that they once were.
- Maybe if we started taking beer baths here we could boost beers sales a bit.
- Being mostly unplugged as far as watching live television goes I missed all of the commercials that are referenced in this article, but it was interesting to read about how the public reacted to them all.
- Since I will be visiting this bar in a few weeks initially I was glad not to be there during the Stone event since I don’t want to travel that far just to drink beer that I can already get here, but after reading a little more about it I think it would be a really cool event to be at.
- In my mind I have thought from the beginning that they would end up in Virginia instead of Tennessee, but either way they decide to go it will be quite some time before we are seeing fresh beer from them on the east coast.
- In strange news of the week I find out that I better be careful of how I display my home brewing equipment to my neighbors.
- If you are wondering what you have to do to have a beer with President Obama, I will just say that most people don’t have it in them to do what this guy did to get there.
- I had no plans to travel to Russia anytime soon, but maybe I should try to get a trip in before 2013 so I can still enjoy the beer free-for-all before the new laws take over.
- When the oldest brewery in the world decides to release a new beer, I decide to pay attention and look to get a taste of it as soon as I can.
- Germany and more specifically Bavaria is on the (incredibly long) list of places I would like to travel to, but I am not sure that I have an Oktoberfest visit in me. If I do I will need all of the pointers I can get to ensure survival.
via http://www.oktoberfest.de
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