From The A.P.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Divers who found what’s believed to be the world’s oldest drinkable champagne say they have also discovered two-centuries-old bottles of beer at a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. Bjorn Haggblom, a spokesman for the researchers, says they found a handful of beer bottles this week while salvaging champagne discovered near the Aland Islands in July. He said researchers who tried drops of the dark, foamy liquid liked the taste of it. Swedish beer expert Goran Winbergh questioned whether it would still be drinkable because beer is perishable. The shipwreck is believed to be from the early 19th century. Haggblom said the oldest drinkable beer previously recorded dates from 1869.
Associated Press
If it was at the bottom of the sea the odds are it’s been kept pretty cold. It’s probably pretty dark down there too. And certainly no air is getting in those bottles. Could it be drinkable?
Our buddies from The Meat Hook are headin’ north for their 2nd Annual Maine Event. Check it out!
“The 2nd Annual Maine Event”: A Week of Butchering, Shucking, Roasting, Smoking, Pickling, Preserving and Distilling on the Coast of Maine
Join chefs Tom Mylan and Brent Young from “The Meat Hook,” Dennis Spina and Millicent Souris from “The Roebling Tea Room” and Annemarie Ahearn and Ladleah Dunn from “Salt Water Farm” for this year’s Maine Event. From an al fresco version of Mylan’s popular pig butchering class to an afternoon of blueberry picking and pie making to a tour of a local dairy farm and cheese making class, as well as an authentic lobster bake, the week will be a riotous celebration of local food and the art of preserving the bounty of summer.
For a full list of classes, activities and ticket purchase go here and scroll down a bit.
(above) Marisa and John act like they are interested in each other
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We are film fanatics. We are the beer sponsor. We are excited for BAM’s annual film festival, beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, June 9th. If you get Opening Night tickets you’ll be treated to a buzzy film AND an important-feeling afterparty featuring oodles of Brooklyn Brand beer, John C Reilly and Marisa Tomei.
Another option is emailing info@brooklynbrewery.com for a chance to win a pair of VIP passes to the 12-day festival.
Trust BrooklynBased.net to give you the scoop on this year’s BAMCinemaFEST below:
The second installment of BAMcinemaFEST returns this week with an amazing slate of shorts and features, director appearances, live music, and 16 New York premieres, even more than last year.
The Duplass Brothers’ hilarious film Cyrus, a hit at Sundance, opens the festival this Wednesday in the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. It stars Marisa Tomei and John C. Reilly (who will both be at the screening) as an unlikely couple whose only stumbling block is Tomei’s son Cyrus, played bySuperbad star Jonah Hill. A free after party follows, fueled by Brooklyn Brewery beer, Macallan scotch, and ton of food, all free.
That’s just one of the hot tickets in the eclectic 12-day festival. The 20 features and 16 short films emphasize up-and-coming voices like emerging director Matt Porterfield, whose acclaimed debut Hamilton was called one of the decade’s top films by The New Yorker. His follow-up, Putty Hill, which screens this Sunday June 13, is about the family and friends of a young Baltimore man who OD’s on heroin.
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The Atlantic’s esteemed National Correspondent, James Fallows, is also the magazine’s resident beer geek. While he was recalling his favorite midwest beers for a recent blog post, nostalgia jockeyed his brain to recall his favorite American beers enjoyed while reporting in China. We agree on at least a couple of them.
It’s becoming clear that British newspapers love breaking stories on reserach that has to do with drinking alcohol. A while back they brought us news that beer made bones stronger. Now comes a piece from The Telegraph about how female college graduates imbibe more booze than their less educated peers.
Read the fascinating story here.
From Draft Magazine
We got a chance to check in with Garrett Oliver, brewmaster and vice president at Brooklyn Brewery, regarding his nomination for Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional from the James Beard Foundation. Oliver is responsible for every aspect of beer production at the brewery, and obviously he’s doing something right: Over the past 20 years, he’s has won countless awards, many internationally, and published several books (including James Beard Award nominated and International Association of Culinary Professional’s Cookbook Award winner, “The Brewmaster’s Table”), serves as editor-in-chief of “The Oxford Companion to Beer,” and hosted over 600 beer tastings and beer dinners in nine countries. He was also a founding member of Slow Food USA and an international counselor to the global, grassroots organization to “counteract fast food and fast life” for five years. And in 2003, Brooklyn Brewery became the first New York company to begin to use 100 percent wind energy to operate their business. In other words, he’s been busy.”
Read the full interview, conducted by Noah Davis, here.
photo by macwagen
BasicallyRead did a nice lil’ review of last night’s festivities.
This gentleman from the famed Appeal-Democrat has a few things to say about choosing beer over champagne this New Year’s Eve.
Raise a toast to the new year with a bubbly brew
By Joe Sixpack/For the Appeal-Democrat
Champagne? More like sham-pagne, if you ask me.
Every New Year’s Eve, it’s the same ol’ swill: overpriced bottles of sweet, fizzy wine posing as a drink worthy of celebration.
Three hundred sixty-four days of the year, none but the most pretentious palate touches the stuff. But flip the calendar, and — pop! — we’re shooting corks and slurping the bubbly like we’re Fred and Ginger in “Top Hat.”
Well, stick the cork back in.
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While I don’t receive an allowance this is still a cute “review” of Monster Ale. Thanks, Beerecorder.
We haven’t finished shopping either. That’s okay, though. At the end of the day, it’s the minimal amount of thought that counts. So to complete your holiday shopping here are a few blatantly self promotional Brooklyn Brewery themed gift ideas.
For The Home Brewer In Your Life
Yeast: It’s Wild! Class at Brooklyn Kitchen Labs — Brooklyn Brewery’s Chris Basso will lead this class, focusing on the different kinds of yeast that can be used in homebrewing. Topics will include Ale Yeast, Lager Yeast, Wild Yeast and their uses in brewing. We will discuss some basic yeast handling methods and ways to more effectively control the results of your fermentations. There will include a tasting of various beers that give typical flavor characteristics of each variety of yeast. An additional side by side tasting of beer homebrewed by Chris will be on hand to show how by changing only the yeast strain the resultant beer will be dramatically different. Expect to come away knowing far more about yeast than you thought possible. Sign up here.
For the Beer Geek or Would be Beer Geek In Your Life
Brooklyn Brewhouse T-Shirt: Inspired by our actual brewhouse control panel, this American Apparel t-shirt will instantly mark you as a beer connoisseur and dedicated follower of fashion. Buy it here.
