Beer News
Victory Brewing Company released a statement today about a recall of “Helios” ale. No, the recall is not for something deadly like what has been popping up in lettuce and eggs. It’s for over carbonation. As Victory states “A flaw in the bottle conditioning process.” The brewery tweeted this morning – “Attention friends who are holding bottles of Helios Ale bottled before 2010: Please dispose of them ASAP” also linking their blog with the full details. Read on for full details of the recall.
From (CNN) — First there was the discovery of dozens of bottles of 200-year-old champagne, but now salvage divers have recovered what they believe to be the world’s oldest beer, taking advertisers’ notion of ‘drinkability’ to another level.
Though the effort to lift the reserve of champagne had just ended, researchers uncovered a small collection of bottled beer on Wednesday from the same shipwreck south of the autonomous Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea.
Stone Brewing (Escondido, CA) has been releasing “Vertical Epics” since 02.02.02. Each year the beer is slightly different, but with one goal – to be consumed sometime after 12.12.12, when the last beer in this series is released. Here’s a Continue Reading →
Pretty snappy if you ask me… Good job Left Hand!
From Reuters.com-
(Reuters) – A Dutch brewer with a penchant for competition has laid claim to creating the world’s strongest brew: a beer that is some 60 percent alcohol by volume.
“You don’t drink it like beer, but like a cocktail — Continue Reading →