Planet Of Beer

Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company has announced a September 15 release date for its Haystack Hefeweizen in 22 oz. bottles. Previously only available on draft, the brewery is releasing Haystack Hefeweizen as the initial offering featuring completely redesigned labels for all of their bottled products. According to brewery sales manager David Siegel, “Haystack Hefeweizen will be the only Washingtonmicro-brewed bottled hefeweizen available year-round.”

Named for the “Haystack,” the 300 foot summit of Mount Si, a Snoqualmie Valley icon, Haystack Hefeweizen is a classic unfiltered American-style wheat beer handcrafted from 60% malted wheat, two-row pale and Vienna malts, and finished with noble German hops. Haystack is fermented with an American ale yeast strain that imparts a spicy, citrus aroma and clean, mellow flavor with subtle yeast overtones. As an unfiltered hefeweizen contains live yeast in the bottle, it is important to gently re-suspend the yeast prior to serving.
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Baltimore, MD - Clipper City Brewing Company, the Maryland-based brewer of the Heavy Seas brands, announced today its seasonal release of Winter Storm “Category 5″ Ale. Referred to as a “winter warmer”, the beer is brewed with copious amounts of English and US malt and hops, has a ruddy hue, and displays full malty flavors mingling with powerful hop aromas.

Winter Storm received the Gold medal in the International Pale Ale category at the 2008 World Beer Competition last April. The Clipper City product outperformed approximately two dozen different entries from around the globe to win the honor and earn this distinction for the next two years.
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HOUSTON, July 29, 2008 - Saint Arnold Brewing Company (www.saintarnold.com), the oldest craft brewery in Texas, has broken another barrier in its rapid growth. The brewery reported today that production exceeded 10,000 barrels in the first half of 2008. That puts the brewery on pace to brew more than 20,000 barrels of beer this year for the first time.

Through June 30th, production volume exceeded 10,500 31-gallon barrels of Saint Arnold beer, an increase of 29 percent over the same period in 2007. Nationwide, the Brewers Association reports that in the first half of 2008 volume of beer sold by craft brewers grew at a 6.5 percent. In the first six months of 2008, Saint Arnold Brewing came close to matching the amount brewed in all of 2005.
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SEATTLE & BURLINGTON, Vt.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Independent Brewers United, Inc., the parent of Magic Hat Brewing Company & Performing Arts Center, Inc. (”Magic Hat”), and Pyramid Breweries Inc. (NASDAQ:PMID) (”Pyramid”) today jointly announced the execution of a definitive merger agreement that contemplates, among other things, a tender offer to purchase all of Pyramid’s outstanding common stock for $2.75 per share in cash, or approximately $25.7 million in total purchase price. The all-cash offer represents a premium of 56.3% over the closing price of Pyramid’s common stock on April 28, 2008, the trading day prior to the public announcement of the execution of a Letter of Intent between Pyramid and Magic Hat regarding the proposed merger. The transaction received approval by the respective boards of directors of the merger parties. A newly formed merger subsidiary of Independent Brewers United expects to commence the tender offer for all outstanding shares of Pyramid common stock on July 2, 2008 or promptly thereafter.
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HOUSTON, June 9, 2008 - Saint Arnold Brewing Company, the oldest craft brewery in Texas, is preparing to introduce the latest edition of its small batch series of craft beer styles, Saint Arnold Divine Reserve No. 6 on June 12th and 13th. But don’t blink. Saint Arnold Divine Reserve is brewed in very limited quantities and sells out at most locations in a day or two.

Saint Arnold Divine Reserve No. 6 is an American Barleywine, which is among the strongest of the beer styles. Although the barleywine style originated more than 100 years ago, San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing is widely credited with popularizing the American Barleywine style when it released Old Foghorn in 1975.
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Webberville, Michigan The 2008 MBC 5K Beer Run, the Michigan Brewing Company Father’s Day weekend tradition, will be held at the company’s headquarters on Saturday evening, June 14th in Webberville, Michigan. 

This great event raises money to support the Sparrow Foundation’s W3 committee goal to fund a new HDR machine that treats several types of cancer including prostate cancer. The MBC Beer Run is also an opportunity to promote and educate event participants about prostate health.

Runners (or purposeful walkers!) in this popular race - approximately 3.1 miles - take off at 6pm from inside MBC’s 76,000 sq. foot brewery. They follow a multi-terrain, double-loop course around the wetland preserve and ponds near the brewing company in the Webberville Business Park.
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MILWAUKEE (June 2008) - Miller Brewing Company today released its second annual Sustainable Development Report, entitled “Live Sustainably.” The report details the company’s progress against its global sustainable development priorities, including areas such as alcohol responsibility, water conservation, energy and carbon reduction, recycling, supply chain management and social investment. The report also features employees who are driving notable sustainable development efforts within the company.

“As you’ll see in these pages, Miller people are driving our progress on sustainable development,” said Tom Long, president and CEO. “I believe that our passion for sustainable development - when harnessed into sharper, bolder and faster approaches - will only make us stronger in our industry and in our quest to live sustainably.”
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Spring’s here!! Even though it hasn’t felt like Spring the last couple of weeks, it’s May 17th and summer’s just around the corner…I hope!

Now’s a good time to start sampling and selecting some favorite summertime style microbrews and craft beers to enjoy during the upcoming sweltering hot months. My wife was kind enough to bring home a local Pennsylvania microbrew from our friends at Troegs Independent Craft Brewery out of Harrisburg, PA. This microbrew is none other than Troeg’s Dreamweaver Wheat Beer one I’ve somehow never tried before).

Anyway, I wasted no time in cracking open the 12 ounce chilled bottle and poured Dreamweaver Wheat agressively into my 14 ounce pilsner glass which just happened to be the only clean beer sampling vessel in the cupboard at the time.

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