Misc News – Aug 17

Fiddler's Hearth, South Bend's premier beer pub, will hold the Indiana tapping of Founders Nemesis 2010 – a 12% Barleywine. Nemesis won't hit the stores until September but you'll be able to get it on tap on August 31st starting at 8pm.

Pelican, evidently a big-time trance-metal band (hear them here), are having a show in Chicago on October 23rd. Three Floyds will unleash a Doppelbock dedicated to them. article

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Bell's fourth beer in mini-kegs will be out late this fall – Winter White will join Oberon, Two Hearted and Best Brown.

Bell's 25th Anniversary party will be held mainly on Friday, Sept 10th and Sat, Sept 11th at the Eccentric Cafe. Schedule:

  • Thursday, September 9th: 9:30 pm: West Side Winders
  • Friday, September 10th:
    2:00 pm: Press Conference in the beer garden
    3:00 pm: Music starts and continues all night with:
    • The Kalamazoo Dixieland Band
    • Great Lakes Grass
    • Black Jake & the Carnies
    • Greensky Bluegrass
    $1 off pints until 9pm on Friday if you are wearing a Bell’s shirt.
  • Saturday, September 11th:
    11:00 am – 4:00 pm: The Galesburg Brewery will be open to the public for tours.
    There will be grilled food and soda available.
    1:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Bell’s celebrates homebrewers. You bring a 5 gallon carboy to the Eccentric Café, we fill it with cold, unhopped wort made with our Michigan barley at no cost. Take it home, hop it, ferment it and send 2 bottles to us no later than November 1st for judging. Guidelines available when you pick up your wort. Winners will be announced on All Stouts Day, November 7th. Limit – one entry per person.
    1:00 pm: Music starts and continues all night with:
    • Ein Prosit! (40+ member, traditional German band) – (These folks are amazing)
    • Deal’s Gone Bad
    • Rolling Head
    • My Dear Disco
    $1 off pints until 9pm on Saturday if you are wearing a Bell’s shirt.
  • Sunday, September 12th: $1 off pints all day on Sunday if you are wearing a Bell’s shirt

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In a previous post we mentioned the Brits who have crawled to 14,000 pubs. The CAMRA paper, What's Brewing, has an article about Stuart Ashby who has visited 17,015 pubs since 1984. "Not bad for someone who doesn't drive and has to rely on public transport".

"Burger King is opening a restaurant in Miami Beach that will serve beer along with burgers and fries, the chain's first U.S. location with alcohol." article Happy meal? Whopper, fries, and a Bud. $7.99. One coming in NYC also. And maybe Orlando.

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