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Can You Identify American Breweries?
Happy American Beer Day! To commemorate the many great American breweries, I put together another round of the popular American beer identification game. I'll list a brew and you tell me if it's American or not.
Can You Identify American Breweries?
Today is American Beer Day, and while American beer often gets a bad rap, there are definitely a lot of fantastic small breweries. To celebrate the day I thought it would be fun to see if you can identify which of these breweries are American and which are not. Ready to give it a try?
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Happy Hour: Snoweizen Wheat Ale
I'm all about eating and drinking locally, and one of my favorite treats of heading up to my vacation house is Snowshoe Brewery's Snoweizen beer. In my mind, it's the best hefeweizen/wheat style beer around. Smooth and creamy with a fruity aroma, Snoweizen has a golden color and thick white foam.
Happy Hour: Buffalo Bill's Pumpkin Ale
These days, my street isn't the only thing covered with pumpkins; so is my kitchen. I've been using the gourds in everything from moist pumpkin bread to chicken pumpkin stew, and so I decided it was high time I enjoyed it in ale form, too. Although it's believed early American icons like George Washington and Ben Franklin enjoyed pumpkin ales, one Bay Area craft brewhouse, Buffalo Bill's, brought the beer back into vogue when it became known for its special blend in the 1980s.The whisky-colored amber ale ($7.99 for six), which is brewed with fresh roasted pumpkins and malted barley, possesses only a delicate squash flavor, but has lingering pumpkin pie spices like cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg that become more prominent as the beer warms.
Come Party With Me: Oktoberfest — Drinks
No specialty cocktail is needed at an Okotberfest celebration, the German festival is all about one thing — beer. Instead invite friends to partake in a beer tasting! There are several different ways to host a beer tasting.
Would You Drink Chicha Beer?
"Off-centered stuff for off-centered people" is the slogan used on every beer at Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales, a Milton, DE-based craft brewery. Although the company is perhaps best known for its 60-Minute India Pale Ale, it's made headlines recently for being one of the few to produce chicha, a traditional Peruvian beer made out of corn that's been milled and moistened — in the brewer's mouth.
"Ancient brewers through trial and error learned that the natural enzymes in saliva would convert the starch in corn into sugar, so it would ferment," Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione told the New York Times.
Guinness Unveils New 250th Anniversary Stout Beer
Stout lovers get excited: for the first time since it began exporting to the US, Guinness is introducing a new stout beer to select markets.
On April 24, to celebrate its quarter-of-a-century draught legacy, Guinness is launching a limited-edition beer, 250th Anniversary Stout, which will be available in bars and stores in the US, Australia, and Singapore. The anniversary brew honors Arthur Guinness's signing of a 9,000-year lease in 1759 at St.
What's Cooking at Slashfood
We love Slashfood so much that every Thursday we round up their most delicious stories. Here are this week's finds:
- Are those hard-boiled eggs from the Easter egg hunt safe to eat afterward?
- Get acquainted with allepo, serrano, and dried arbol chiles.
- Extend the life of overripe eggplant by salting it beforehand.
- The Brewers Association has released their list of America's top 50 breweries.
- Terrance Brennan's tips for making winning grilled cheese sandwiches.
- What will go down at this year's National Grits Festival?
Meet the 2009 James Beard Award Nominees!
Last month, we introduced you to the semifinalists for the 2009 James Beard Awards. This morning, the short list of final nominees was unveiled, and the winners of the awards — nicknamed the "Oscars of the food world" — will be revealed at an awards gala at Manhattan's Lincoln Center on May 4. In addition to the highly anticipated nominations for outstanding restaurateur, outstanding chef, and outstanding restaurant, among others, the foundation's other honors — in cookbooks, newspaper writing, restaurant design, and blogs — were also announced.
What's Cooking at Slashfood
We love Slashfood so much that every Thursday we round up their most delicious stories. Here are this week's finds:
- In the wake of the recession, family-owned pizza parlors may be among the last bastion of thriving businesses.
- Cheez-It introduces the new Scrabble Junior Cracker.
- The USDA hires sustainable agriculture expert Kathleen Merrigan to take the post of deputy secretary.
- Get to know sciacchetrà, Cinque Terre's most notable dessert wine.
- Michigan is providing a tax credit to help a local brewery with production of a proposed Kid Rock-branded beer.
- What parameters exist for food that's labeled "all natural"?
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