Beer News

Drunkorexia Is Dangerous

Drunkorexia is the non-medical term for not eating before a night of drinking.   The empty stomach isn’t because someone forgot to eat before they went out.  Drunkorexia is intentionally act of foregoing eating to save the calories before drinking Continue Reading →

Leon’s Celebrates 3 Years

Today, Leon’s Full Service in Decatur celebrates 3 awesome years.  A quick thank you from Leons:

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 3 years already. Thank you all so very much for making it such a spectacular year. Our staff has worked Continue Reading →

Carlsberg 2012 Profits Look Bleak

The world’s 4th biggest brewer is expecting stalled profits in 2012.  They are blaming depressed beer markets in northern & western Europe.

The world’s fourth biggest brewer, which brews Carlsberg, Tuborg, Baltika brands said its 2012 results would be Continue Reading →

Sam Adams 26.2 Brew

The Boston marathon is in April.  (59 days from now.)   How about a beer for it?  Sam Adams Boston 26.2 Brew.   Ale brewed with coriander and salt.

Style: Gose?

Availability: Draft only, as of 2/17/12

?? ABV

Posted in Beer News

Nashville Craft Beer Week Coming In March

The first Nashville Craft Beer Week is coming together nicely.   The week runs March 26 – 31st, 2012.

About NCBW:
The Inaugural Nashville Craft Beer Week will take place March 26-31 with the grand finale event of The East Nashville Beer Festival at East Park in East Nashville. The entire week is Rhizome Productions increased efforts to help increase Nashville’s awareness and desire for craft beer. With the recent increase in breweries slated to open in Nashville its seems that Nashville is moving in the right direction to please beer drinkers. Nashville Craft Beer Week will further help this cause by arranging various events through out Nashville the entire week. Expect beer dinners, brewer meet and greets, in store tasting, and unique opportunities to sample unique craft beer. Please keep up with our Facebook page and NashvilleCraftBeerWeek.com for all details. Rhizome Productions would also like to thank Ajax Turner, DET, Limpan Brothers, and Bounty Bev for their continued support. Also a huge thanks to all participating Nashville business; without their involvement this would not be possible.

Events to include: Yazoo, SweetWater, Blackstone, Green Flash & more.

[NashvilleCraftBeer]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Drunkorexia Is Dangerous

Drunkorexia is the non-medical term for not eating before a night of drinking.   The empty stomach isn’t because someone forgot to eat before they went out.  Drunkorexia is intentionally act of foregoing eating to save the calories before drinking to avoid weight gain.

Studies on college campuses in North Carolina, Missouri, & Texas find as many as 21% of students have admitted to not eating before nights of drinking to spare calories.   Female drinkers do this more often then male drinkers.  Celebrities like Amy Winehouse (dead from alcohol poisoning) and Lindsay Lohan have been called (or called themselves) “drunkorexics” in the past.

Restricting calories can limit the necessary nutrition the body needs.  The effect of alcohol can be amplified on an empty stomach.  Longterm drunkorexia can damage cognitive functioning, both while drinking and long after the night ends.   A word to the wise – eat before you booze it up.  Your body will thank you for it.  [StarPress]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Leon’s Celebrates 3 Years

Today, Leon’s Full Service in Decatur celebrates 3 awesome years.  A quick thank you from Leons:

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 3 years already. Thank you all so very much for making it such a spectacular year. Our staff has worked hard and we want to celebrate with you all and thank you. What a year it’s been. We were voted in Best of Atlanta: Best Cocktails, Best Bartender,  Best Waitstaff, Best Veggie Dish. Food and Wine magazine named LEONs Full Service a TOP 50 Bar in America!

We are very proud of all of our staff and want to thank our management team specifically for their leadership and hard work. Our managing partner Ryan Gallagher, Assistant GM Heather Gibbons, Chef Eric Ottensmeyer,Sous Chef Robert Lupo, Bar Manager Miles Macquarrie & our newest memberFloor Manager Crystal Keddie-Hill. Thank you. 

Also a big thanks to all of you for your support, friendship and for telling all your friends about us. We couldn’t have made it without you.  We’ve put a brand new pergola on the patio and just popped

in all new patio furniture. We’vegot hanging gas heaters hanging  and fans and misters will be in for summer. Come have a look for yourself.

To great food, drink & service,
Mike

Tap Lineup:

Twain’s Timmy J’s Awesome Sauce
Founders Better Half
Bell’s Hopslam
Scaldis Peche Mel
Allagash Thing 1
Tilquin Gueuze
Dogfish Head Bitches Brew
Lagunitas Sucks
Port Brewing Older Viscosity 2010
Bruery Four Calling Birds
He’brew Jewbelation 15
Terrapin/BFM Spike and Jerome
New Belgium Lips of Faith La Folie
Great Divide Belgain Yeti

From the Kitchen
Tres Tacos
uno { la caja china goat, salsa rojas, cotija, cilantro
dos { grilled trout, red cabbage slaw, orange
tres { pork belly, cucumber kimchi, bean paste, sesame

LEONs slow roasted brisket taquitos
Red rice | re- fried black beans | eric’s guacamole
Carolina coast snapper & georgia shrimp ceviche

 

Leon’s Full Service – 3rd Anniversary Celebration, 2/20/12
131 E Ponce De Leon Ave
Decatur, GA 30030 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Baltika, Beer News, Carlsberg

Carlsberg 2012 Profits Look Bleak

The world’s 4th biggest brewer is expecting stalled profits in 2012.  They are blaming depressed beer markets in northern & western Europe.

The world’s fourth biggest brewer, which brews Carlsberg, Tuborg, Baltika brands said its 2012 results would be dented by the euro zone crisis hitting beer drinkers and also by a low single-digit percentage rise in its input costs.  “We have taken a cautious view for northern and western Europe, and assume a slightly declining market in 2012,” Chief Financial Officer Jorn Jensen said at an investor presentation.

1/3 of the brewery’s sales come from Russia.  Carlsberg is planning to reverse the falling market by taking full control of the Baltika brand.  The brewery owns all but 15% of the business unit.  Baltika (the official beer supplier of the 2014 Olympics) stock surged nearly 10% on word of the Carlsburg offer.  The deal is expected to be in place by May, 2012. Carlsberg is 4th largest in the world, behind AB-InBev, SAB Miller, and Heineken.  [Reuters]

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Coming Soon, Oskar Blues Brewing, Sun King Brewing

Oskar Blues & Sun King Create “Chaka”

Oskar Blues Sun King ChakaOskar Blues (Lyon, CO) and Sun King Brewing (Indianapolis, IN) are brewing up a new can collaboration – Chaka.  The beer will be a Belgian style ale with ingredients from both states.  Shagbark hickory syrup will be added from Indiana, and Belgian pale malt from Colorado malting.  Dave Colt from Sun King and Dave Chichura from Oskar Blues have been friends for years.  They met when Colt was working at Circle V Brewing in Indiana.

According to Hoosier Beer Geek, Chaka will be brewed this spring, debuting at the Craft Brewer’s Conference in May.   Oskar Blues & Sun King will brew an edition of Chaka.  Interestingly, Oskar Blues isn’t currently distributed in Indiana.  This collaboration would be the first time the brewery’s beer would hit the state.  

[HBG]

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Distribution Expansion, Green Flash Brewing

Green Flash Accidentally Goes To Idaho. Then Leaves.

Green Flash BrewingAll this was basically an accident.  An Idaho distributor tells a store (specifically Brewforia) that Green Flash will be available in Idaho in the coming weeks.  The store orders Green Flash. ( I mean come on, who wouldn’t.)  Beer hits shelves.

Woah, woah, woah. Wait.  Is Green Flash approved for Idaho?  Nope.  You were mistaken.  How the hell did you get this beer?

It breaks down like this.  (It’s a little he said, she said, but not in a bad way.)

Our distributor sees that another distributor they have a relationship with recently brought in Green Flash. These two distributors regularly buy product from one another for sale in markets where the other one doesn’t have operations so my distributor has a few cases of several Green Flash beers transferred to their warehouse in Northern Idaho.  

Because the brewers typically register their beer with the states that they sell in the distributor never checked to see if the product was registered.  To be fair, the state of Idaho does not have a good system to check for registered breweries to begin with so even if they had tried to check, chances are they wouldn’t have gotten the info anyway.  Also, because the relationship with the brewery is with a different distributor, not the one that sold the beer in Idaho there was no line of communication to know whether the beer had been registered for sale in Idaho. 

So anyway, we ordered the beer and it showed up on the truck and we put it on the shelves.  A couple days later the brewers rep for Firestone Walker (a brewery also entering the Idaho market in April) came into the store here and saw the bottles on the shelf.  He thought to himself, “I didn’t know Green Flash was in Idaho”, so he called the brewer.  The brewer was obviously perplexed by the fact that his beer was showing up on shelves in states where he did not have a distribution agreement so he set about tracking down exactly how the beer showed up here.  Ultimately he asked that all the beer that was shipped to Idaho be removed from store shelves and so we complied.

With Green Flash’s East Coast manifest destiny ( Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida)  there is a high likely hood that the beer will be available in the state this year.  Just not now.  Sorry Idaho.  [Facebook]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Sam Adams 26.2 Brew

Sam Adams 26.2 BrewThe Boston marathon is in April.  (59 days from now.)   How about a beer for it?  Sam Adams Boston 26.2 Brew.   Ale brewed with coriander and salt.

Style: Gose?

Availability: Draft only, as of 2/17/12

?? ABV

by Reid Ramsay