An improper tumbl.: Rule changes to cost New York breweries millions
A ruling last month in a lawsuit that an out-of-state beer importer brought against the New York State Liquor Authority has ended a major tax and fee exemption for small brewers in the state, which will cost them millions of dollars in previously-waived costs.
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Schaefer made a bock? Wow.
Beer menu by way of J. Peterman. (Social Kitchen & Brewery, Inner Sunset, San Francisco.)
A barrel of crushed grapes, left to its own devices, can turn into a crude sort of Beaujolais nouveau. The winemaker’s job is mostly to prod the process along. That isn’t true of beer. For grain to turn into an ale or lager, it has to be malted, cooked, strained, cooked, strained, fermented in a barrel, and sometimes again in a bottle. “Mother Nature makes wine,” Calagione likes to say. “Brewers make beer.
— Sam Calagione, Dogfish Head, and extreme beer : The New Yorker (via treblekicker)
Wall of beer cans at B-Spot.
1958 Christmas Budweiser ad.
Happy Holidays — and please, in the name of whatever you hold dear, celebrate with something better than a Budweiser.
