Misc News – Jan 4

Roger has cooked up another festival down at the New Albanian Public House. This one is for NABC beers. Starting this Friday (Jan 8) the taps will pour the regulars plus a selection of seasonals and specials from the vaults. The selection will change daily (actually hourly) through the next couple of weeks.

Regulars: Abzug Beak's Best Bob's Old 15-B Community Dark Elector Hoptimus Kaiser 2nd Reising Mt. Lee Tafelbier Tunnel Vision Possibles: Dry Knobs Dubbel Nugget APA Smoked Abzug

Seasonals: Anniversary Ale V., Oak Aged, '07 Anniversary Ale VII., '09 ConeSmoker Le Douche Mental ELI Elsa Von Horizon Farmhouse Saison Jenever Malcolm’s Old Setter's Ale, '09 Naughty Claus Phoenix Kentucky Kommon Solidarity '09 Sour Red Strathpeffer ThunderFoot '09 WeeFoot Session Stout

Reviews of  BrewDog's 32% Tactical Nuclear Penguin. Brewdog Paradox (10%) which was aged for 9 months in a Spayside cask then 9 months in a Smokehead cask, then taken to an ice cream factory and frozen over the course of 2 weeks, then the non frozen liquid was drained off. Your basic Barrel-aged Eis Imperial Stout.

Ratebeer – BeerAdvocate - Jay Brooks

The British News: 

Headline of the day - Customers stuck at England's highest pub. Nothing like a 3-day New Years Eve party.

Another headline of the day - Pints for 99p at Wetherspoon pub sale. Jan 4 – 18. Greene King Ruddles. Yep, 20oz pints.

Some folks in London organized a beer festival last September. The ticket sales weren't very good an they cancelled the event 2 weeks beforehand. Loss = £926,765. Yep, they owe $1.5M. article