Well, pretty much nothing. It’s just that everyone else is talking about them, and I feel left out. So, I was pretty happy to spot this:

Neither its ultimate availability nor the $499 price tag has stopped market forces from coming into play. Lazy buyers can choose line-waiters based on price and location. In California, one would-be waiter in Walnut Creek “will wait in line @ Apple Store in WC for 80 + Beer and a pack of Smokes.”

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It’s that time of year again, folks- time to consider, on top of all the other summer craft beer events in the area, the big kahuna: The Buffalo Brewfest. I saw a poster up somewhere just the other day, and had a chance to ask Flying Bison owner Tim Herzog a few questions about it the other night, seeing as tickets go on sale TODAY. In addition to providing me with this fine, fine graphic, he assured me of a few other details…

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The Buffalo News is reporting today (24th June, 2007) about a local company, Niagara Dispensing Technologies, who have developed a new tap which cuts the time it takes to pour a beer by 75%. 75-frikkin-percent!!! As the article states:

“Pfffffht,” goes the machine, jetting beer into the cup and topping it with a quarter-inch of foam. The cup fills in about three seconds — about one-quarter the time it takes a conventional tap to do the job.

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Of course, the very words “cream ale” mean one thing and one thing alone to a WNYer, and that’s surely Genesee. The staple, brewed continuously in Rochester, NY since 1960, is not generally thought of as especially craft-brewed, or upscale, but the cream ale style is an american original what predates all these new American mutants- “Imperial” everything, and “Oak-aged” everyhing, for example…

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Among the purposes of the Beer-O-Vision blog is to bring you news of upcoming events- and as you might expect, the summer is jam packed with ‘em. In relative chronological order, this summer’s beery/brewy offerings are…

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Considering how much we put into them, and of course, how much we like what we get out of them, you might imagine we’d give a little more respect to the humble beer glass. Jim Koch, owner of Samuel Adams certainly wants us to. Disparaging of the standard, straight-sided pint glass that dominates the American bar (and which is, frankly, best used only as half of a Boston shaker), Mr. Koch enlisted the help of scientists and engineers to design glassware optimized for beer.

You might wonder how much the glassware can affect your experience of drinking beer.

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Ok, it’s not quite like that, maybe. Still, this crossed my intertubes yesterday:

BRUSSELS - Belgian beer exports have been on the rise for a number of years now, but since last year Belgium is exporting more than is consumed in the country itself.

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This was the scene down at the Niagara Association of Homebrewer’s annual event, Brew On The River. The concept is very simple- Bill invites the club to kindly invade his driveway on Grand Island, overlooking the lovely Niagara River for a day of brewing, eating, drinking, and hanging out. It’s always a fun time, and it’s usually an excuse for the club to tackle some kind of crazy brewing project- this year was no exception.

Now, last year, three of us “new” members (shout out to Shawn and Joe here) essentially ended up with the dangerous (yet strangely gratifying) job of ferrying really hot rocks from the fire to the kettle for an authentic Steinbier…

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Saturday June 30th: Leave Ulrich’s at 3:30 and return between 11:00 and 11:30
$45 per person includes game ticket, limo bus, beer on the bus, and snacks on bus: What a deal!
We’ll be visiting Rochester’s famed beer bar, The Old Toad, and then going out to the ball game. Why see another town’s ball team […]

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Short post, just to inform WNYers, that Belgian Red Ale Rodenbach is currently on tap down at Allen Street Hardware. I actually discussed this very beer–well, ok, the Grand Cru, actually–in the last episode of Beer-O-Vision, so click on over to that if you want to know more. But the short story is […]

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