Beer, Brats And Bands In Downtown Rogers | 5newsonline.com

Jersey girl employs sudsy "strategy'' at Great American Beer Festival | NJ.com

The event was held at Frisco Park in Rogers from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Saturday (Oct. 4). A selection of beer and wine was available for purchase throughout the event. In addition, there was also brats and live music. Organizers said proceeds from the event support the work of Main Street Rogers in preserving and promoting Downtown Rogers. We use it as a fundraiser for Main Street, and also as an outreach for the city of Rogers, the merchants downtown and just for a community event that we can help host, said Paul Hively, chairman of Main Street Rogers board. The event was open to all ages. Admission was free.



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German beer goes American to regain buzz : Entertainment

This year theyve added a big tent in the campground area, which features more food options, games and vendors. You cant celebrate your German heritage without several kinds of beer and sausages covered in sauerkraut. And a good Oktoberfest also needs some leiderhosen. Its a traditionalat least in Americans mindsGerman costume, said Travis Calef. Its a lot of fun to get in the spirit kind of like a holiday. Oktoberfest goes until 11 p.m.



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Local 2014 GABF winners | San Diego Reader

Oliver Lemke has been making trips to Colorado, New York and California, learning how craft brewers grabbed a sizable portion of the U.S. market. Lemke, who says his American counterparts have taught him to be bolder and experiment with new categories, is now expanding his Berlin brewery as the trend reaches Germany, where the number of micro breweries has increased by more than 30 percent since 2005 to about 670. "We Germans were convinced we're making the world's best beer but meanwhile, beer diversity suffered," Lemke said while sipping his newest creation, an India Pale Ale with a hint of grapefruit and mango. "Craft brewing is a lucrative and interesting niche and it was a mistake not to do it earlier." Germany, home to the world's oldest active brewery started by Bavarian monks a thousand years ago, is synonymous with beer and the country's 8 billion-euro ($10 billion) industry. Yet consumption and output in Germany which has beer gardens in cities such as Munich that can seat 8,000, and more than 1,300 breweries has declined for the past seven years. Instead, Germans are sipping more wine, Italian-style coffee drinks and summer cocktails like Aperol Spritz. In response, German breweries are looking to put the buzz back in beer by following the lead of the U.S., where Boston Beer Co. Inc., which sells the Samuel Adams brand, was one of the instigators of a craft beer boom that started in the late 1970s and picked up steam in the past five years. Craft brewers accounted for 14 percent of the $100 billion U.S. market last year, according to the Brewers Association, an industry group based in Boulder, Colorado. While U.S. beer sales fell 1.9 percent last year, domestic craft beer sales grew 17 percent, the group said. In Germany, craft beers have been long absent from the market that's dominated by pilseners until now. "Craft beers are a new trend in Germany that is growing rapidly," said Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen, a sociology professor at Berlin's Free University who specializes in the history of eating and drinking. "It's highly popular especially with young urban consumers who value the local footprint of these products." One reason Germany has been slow to embrace something that's well-established elsewhere may be the country's Reinheitsgebot, or "purity law," drafted in 1516 and the oldest food law still enforced. To this day, a brewer can't call his product beer if he doesn't adhere to it. While foreign producers can add ingredients such as rice or sugar, Germans must make beer with just four items: malted barley, hops, water and yeast. Most craft brewers in Germany, including Lemke, produce their drinks after the purity law. With a wider choice of other beverages to buy, beer has lost some of its status. The average German drinks about 107 liters (28.3 gallons) of beer a year, down from more than 140 liters in 1991, according to the Barth Group. That puts the country third in the world, after the Czech Republic and Austria. Americans drink about 75 liters a year. German brewers who are currently celebrating Munich's Oktoberfest, the industry's highpoint of the year are hoping specialty beers can help change perceptions and lure back buyers year round. Radeberger Gruppe, Germany's largest producer, has begun selling craft beers with price tags that can reach 24.99 euros a bottle, such as the dark-brown 17th Anniversary Ale, made of 7 different ales matured in oak. The Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan , the world's oldest brewery started in 1040, now markets 'Infinium,' a beer developed in cooperation with Samuel Adams sold in a black champagne bottle. You can go even more individual than that. Holger Wirtz in May started Bierzuliebe , "beer to love," a website where you can create your own beer with your own preferences for hops intensity, alcohol level, liveliness and color have it brewed and shipped to you in a champagne bottle within a week. You can also order Bierzuliebe's house creations such as "Kehlenglueck," or "Throat Joy," for 9.95 euros. "Beer has great untapped potential," Wirtz said in an interview. "We want to make a premium product that people enjoy and celebrate instead of downing in a few gulps." Gaining traction with craft beer may still be an uphill struggle. Micro breweries currently produce 1 percent of German output, according to the DBB, the German brewers' association. While that may grow to as much as 3 percent, the craft beer boom won't reach U.S. proportions because German consumers already get their beer, even if mostly pilseners, from small- and medium-sized breweries that often sell locally, said Stefan Huckemann, a Munich-based partner in the consumer business at consultancy Deloitte. "The craft beer trend comes from the U.S., which didn't have the variety that markets like Germany and Belgium had for many years," Huckemann said. "It's nevertheless positive for the German market, which has been suffering from price pressure, as it will increase the perceived value of beer." Lemke, who started making craft beer in 1999, is adopting a more American-style logo for his Berlin brewery, where he's produced about 40 brews over the years. While Germany back then wasn't ready for his pale ales and stouts, it is now, he said. "We waited 15 years for craft beer to take off," he said. "It's a trend I believe will stay around." 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"Most events only promote wine or beer and from various regions," said April Sette, DBA director of marketing and public relations, in an email on Monday. "We are promoting both at the same event." The event is being organizing by Downtown Bordentown Association. Mary Barnes, owner of the HOB (Heart of Bordentown) Tavern, is the chairperson of the event. The inspiration behind the event is to promote New Jersey-produced wines and craft beers, while generating foot traffic into Bordentown, Ms. Sette said. "We felt that New Jersey has such an array of wines and craft beers produced in New Jersey, why not promote our own products," she said. The event is scheduled from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday on Farnsworth Avenue between Crosswicks Street and Railroad Avenue. A rain date is scheduled for Sunday. The cost of the tickets is $20 in advance and $30 cash on the day of the event. Tickets are available for purchase at the Old Book Shop of Bordentown, Rebeccas Vintage and Consignment Boutique and HOB Tavern or online on the Downtown Bordentown Associations website under the event. After expenses the proceeds will be divided between the Downtown Bordentown Association to be used for marketing and a donation to the Old City Hall Restoration project, she said. New this year is a focus on the New Jersey produced wines and beers. Sponsors include craft breweries Kane, River Horse Brewing Co., Flying Fish, Beach Haus, Carton Brewing and Ramstein. New Jersey vineyards participating are Cava Winery and Vineyard, Unionville Vineyard, Southwind Vineyard and Monroeville Vineyard. Live entertainment will be provided by Mr. Lucky, a local blues band. Ms. Sette said that it makes it a "nice day out for couples." "We found last year that groups of couples came because the guys liked the craft beer concept and the women liked the wine," she said. She noted that the highlight of the event is a combination of New Jersey wines and crafts beers with the restaurants who will feature $5 menus. Restaurants participating in this are Toscano Ristorante, Farnsworth House, Under the Moon Cafe, Marcellos Restaurant, Oliver, a Bistro, Jesters Cafe, the HOB Tavern, and The Vault. RECENT COMMENTS



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University launches beer-making program - St. Joseph News-Press and FOX 26 KNPN: National

(AP) - Deb McGowan is up-front about her addiction. When she sees discarded cans and bottles on the side of the roadway, she cant walk past without retrieving them. And when shes driving down a rural road and spots a couple of tossed cans, she makes a detour to get them. Really, its almost an addiction, said McGowan. Especially if I see more than one, I pull over to get them. Every can is another nickel. Over the past year, McGowan, 47, has redeemed 10,000 beverage containers to raise her $500 fundraising commitment for the ninth annual Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation Walk Across Southeastern Connecticut. Its the eighth time that McGowan will participate, and the seventh time that she will walk the full 26.2-mile course. I just love the organization and (the fact) that 100 percent of the money raised goes to research, said McGowan. I think, what if they ever do find a cure and it is because some of the money raised did come from crushed cans - from recycling? I just love that. This is the first year that McGowan fulfilled her fundraising commitment by collecting and redeeming bottles and cans. But a year ago, while she was training for the 2013 walk, the idea took hold when she realized how many discarded beverage containers she was walking past every day. Thats when I had my aha moment, said McGowan, explaining it was then that she decided to raise her funds for the 2014 walk by collecting roadside litter. I was very motivated to clean up the roads and to donate the money to a cause I believe in. I see it as a win-win, she said. But once the plan was concocted, McGowan did some simple math and realized to net $500 a nickel at a time, she would have to redeem 10,000 beverage containers. She walks almost daily, but even on Mondays, a prime collection day, especially for discarded beer cans, a good haul on her 2-mile morning route typically yields about 10 cans. On weekends, when she sometimes goes for a 15-mile trek, she and walking partners Kate Parenteau and Linda Stefanski, all of North Stonington, can fill six bags full by the halfway point. McGowan leaves the bags along the way and drives back later to collect them. But soon after launching the initiative, McGowan admits she had doubts about being able to find that many discarded containers.



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Arbor Brewing Company's Ypsilanti brewpub lands in national top-10 list - Ypsilanti Courier - Heritage Newspapers

& Restaurant. The university announced Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, that it will begin offering a certificate program in fermentation science to train undergraduates in the science and practicalities of making beer. The school that Holtons company will help provide students with hand-on experience in brewing. The program aims at training people to work in Michigans fast-growing microbrewing industry. (AP Photo/Steve Jessmore, Central Michigan University). Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 6:27 pm | Updated: 10:00 pm, Wed Sep 24, 2014. University launches beer-making program Associated Press | 0comments DETROIT (AP) Colleges and beer have a long shared history. A university in Michigan is taking that partnership to a new level with the creation of a program to train and certify experts in "fermentation science." Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant this week announced plans to launch the program in fall 2015, aimed particularly at supporting and boosting the state's fast-growing craft brewing industry, now a $1 billion-plus annual business. "As of 2013, Michigan ranked fifth in the nation in number of breweries, behind only California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington," said Ian Davison, dean of the College of Science and Technology at the Mount Pleasant school. Central Michigan bills its undergraduate program as the first in the state specifically aimed at providing a "hands-on education focused on craft beer." Similar programs operate at the University of California's Davis and San Diego campuses and at Oregon State and Central Washington universities. Michigan State University has operated an artisan distilling program for 15 years and last year started a beverage specialization program that also includes beer and wine-making. The Central Michigan program will include classroom and lab work in biochemistry, chemistry and microbiology, as well as a 200-hour internship in a "production-scale facility." The university, which is about 150 miles northwest of Detroit, said it is collaborating with the Mountain Town Brewing Co. and Hunter's Ale House in developing the program. Program director Cordell DeMattei said it "will fill a need in the state and across the region for students to learn the science and technology underlying brewing ... and provides the training needed by future leaders of the craft brewing industry." Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in small-scale, local, high-quality beer-making. Rob Sirrine of the Michigan State University Extension said more than 400 acres of hops, beer's key flavoring ingredient, are under cultivation in Michigan. Growers' main market is small-sale in-state brewers, he said. Behind the growth in demand for high-end beer is a long-running fascination with the brewing process, one of the oldest forms of human food processing. "There's a lot of romantic attachment to beer," said Scott Graham, executive director of the Michigan Brewers Guild. The Lansing-based group represents the state's microbreweries, now numbering more than 160, and helped win passage this year of laws allowing them to expand. In-state microbrewers currently have 5 percent of Michigan's beer market, a share that could easily double or triple, Graham said. ___ Rules of Conduct 1 Clean & On Topic. Comments must be on topic. Nothing obscene, vulgar or lewd. 2 Don't Threaten or Abuse. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated. AND PLEASE TURN OFF CAPS LOCK. 3 Be Truthful. Don't lie about anyone or anything. Adhere to our terms of service . 4 Be Nice. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism that is degrading to another person. 5 Be Proactive. Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts. We'd love to hear eyewitness accounts, the history behind an article. Print comments



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Oktoberfest Brings Beer And Polka Bands To State Fairgrounds « CBS Minnesota

YPSILANTI The craft beer news service Beer Info has placed three brands brewed by Ypsilanti-based Arbor Brewing Company Microbrewery at the top of their category in its annual list of the Top 10 Ales and Lagers in the USA." The top 10 lists are compiled based on the results of the U.S. Open Beer Championship, Great American Beer Festival, and RateBeer.com . The three beers named best in the US are Arbor Brewing Companys Jackhammer in the Old Ale category, Bliss in the German Hefeweizen category, and Sodibo in the Barrel Aged Beer category. ABC founder and brewmaster Matt Greff called the announcement an amazing honor." With the sheer number of craft beers in the market it would be incredible to be recognized for making the best beer in the US in one style category, but taking top honors in three of the 62 styles is kind of mind-blowing," Matt Greff said. The complete list of Top 10 Ales and Lagers can be found at www.beerinfo.com . The timing of the announcement couldnt be better according to ABC co-owner and marketing director Rene Greff because the Jackhammer Old Ale just got a packaging makeover and is scheduled for release in mid-October. The Bliss beer is nearing the end of its season but is still available in some stores. Sodibo will be back in stores in the spring. Arbor Brewing Company was among the first five brewpubs to open in Michigan after final passage of the states brewpub law in 1993. In 2006 ABC founders Matt and Rene Greff opened the Arbor Brewing Company Microbrewery (aka Corner Brewery) in Ypsilanti to brew and package ABC brands for distribution throughout Michigan. This month they also expanded distribution into northwest Ohio and Connecticut. For more information, visit www.arborbrewing.com . Source: Arbor Brewing Company



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BORDENTOWN CITY: Beer and wine tasters coming to town | CentralJersey.com

Held annually in Denver, the combination festival and competition draws thousands of beer fans as well as brewing company head honchos eager to ascend the stairs to the award stage to receive medals for best brews in 90-plus beer style categories. Winners were announced earlier today and San Diego County interests brought home medals in the following categories. American-Belgo-Style Ale - Green Flash Brewing Company, Le Freak (Bronze) American-Style Pale Ale - Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits, Grunion (Gold) Barley Wine-Style Ale - AleSmith Brewing Company, Old Numbskull (Gold) Belgian-Style Tripel - Pizza Port Ocean Beach, La Flama Dorada (Bronze) Belgian-Style Witbier - Saint Archer Brewery, White Ale (Gold) Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout - Bagby Beer Co., Asphalt Jungle (Bronze) Imperial India Pale Ale - Port Brewing Company, Hop 15 (Silver) Imperial Red Ale - Port Brewing Company, Shark Attack (Bronze) International Style Pale Ale - Societe Brewing Company, The Pupil (Bronze) Irish-Style Red Ale - Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits, Piper Down (Silver) Other Belgian-Style Ale - Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens - Liberty Station, Witty Moron (Gold) Session Beers - Benchmark Brewing Company, Oatmeal Stout (Gold), Pizza Port Ocean Beach, Guillame (Silver), Karl Strauss Brewing Company, Mosaic Session Ale (Bronze) This year, brewing companies were only allowed five entries total. In the past, the maximum number of entries per organization was 10, so competition was fiercer. Also, companies' approach to the competition was much more strategic. Even before judging for the main competition had been completed, two local breweries won big awards in the largest side contests coinciding with GABF. Vista's Belching Beaver Brewery took first place in the legendary Alpha King challenge, an IBU-focused event crowning the highest quality, mega-hopped India pale ale (IPA) in the country. That distinction goes to Belching Beaver Pound Town Triple IPA. A prize even better than a GABF medal went to small but formidable ChuckAlek Independent Brewers , who won Boston Beer Co.'s Brewing the American Dream contest. The prize: a small business loan of up to $25,000 to put toward expansion of their Ramona-based brewery and tasting room. Now, that's some serious gold!



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"Fruity, peanut butter (flavored), anything with coffee or chocolate, or both. Anything that's off the wall.'' I left Rachel and her husband, Colin - they first met in Vermont - about a half hour ago on the floor of the Colorado Convention Center. I had hit the wall; after sampling 115 beers in three GABF sessions, could you blame me? This was Rachel's third GABF, and she came away more impressed than ever by craft brewers' ingenuity and creativity. "They're constantly re-inventing new flavors and creating interesting beers,'' she said. What were her favorite beers of the night? She listed six: 1. Peanut butter cup coffee porter, Willoughby Brewing Co., Willoughby, Ohio 2. Mint Luna Weizen, Elliott Bay Brewing Co., Seattle 3.



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'Aha' moment: Walk, collect cans and fight cancer - Washington Times

Just as a wall full of graffiti attracts more scribblers, so litter begets litter. To focus attention on this ugly and avoidable environmental problem, the Pennsylvania Resources Council (PRC) sponsors its annual Lens On Litter Photo Contest, with a deadline of Oct.r 31, 2014. Use your camera, iPAD or iPhone to identify the worst examples of litter in your Pennsylvania community. The contest is open to amateur photographers only. Contestants will be divided into two classes school age children and adults. Six prizes, three to each group, will be awarded with first place winners receiving $1,000 in cash, second place $500, third place $250. Almost 70 percent of the counties in Pennsylvania were represented last year. The contest identifies sites, which PRC then targets for clean up through local action be it the governing body or civic-minded organizations. In the past five years, litter has been removed from over 300 sites. PRC provided literature to the groups describing clean up methods. Send entries (limit three per person) to the Pennsylvania Resources Council, 3606 Providence Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073. All entries must contain the following information: entrants name, address, telephone number, title given to photo, and location of litter site. If a school age child, the school grade and school name must be provided. Photos will not be returned and will become the property of PRC. Program sponsors include: AAA Mid-Atlantic, Inc., Air Products and Chemicals, ,Everchem Specialty Chemicals, Sheetz, Inc., Wawa, Inc., and WSFS Bank. For further information, call the Pennsylvania Resources Council at 610-353-1555. If you are interested in becoming a member or making a contribution, call PRC.



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