Pretty sure that wob closed down. As for beer - waterfront brewing just opened up. I haven't had been to it yet but the brewer is solid from the stuff I've had a while back and the place looks legit. The porch is a great spot for beer and wine. Bone island brewing is a tiny little spot in the back of the restaurant store, the 4 beers I tried there we're ok but nothing special. If you're driving the keys apparently a few other breweries just opened as well. Note to self; I should probably do a keys trip soon.
Looking like ABInbev is going to buy SABMiller. Spoiler SABMiller Gets Takeover Approach From Anheuser-Busch InBev Deal would combine two of the world’s largest brewers ENLARGE SABMiller sells beers including Miller, Peroni, Tyskie, Pilsner Urquell, Grolsch and Coors Light. PHOTO: DAVID JONES/PA WIRE/ZUMA PRESS By SAABIRA CHAUDHURI, SHAYNDI RAICE and MIKE ESTERL Updated Sept. 16, 2015 8:37 a.m. ET 20 COMMENTS Anheuser-Busch InBev NV on Wednesday said it had approached SABMiller PLC about a takeover, paving the way for a deal that would likely value SABMiller well in excess of its $75 billion market capitalization and create a brewing giant that would dominate much of the global beer market. London-listed SABMiller said AB InBev “has informed SABMiller that it intends to make a proposal to acquire SABMiller.” It cautioned that no deal was certain. AB InBev soon followed with its own statement, saying it intends “to work with SABMiller’s board toward a recommended transaction.” No terms were disclosed. AB InBev and SABMiller are the world’s two largest brewing companies, and a combination would trigger an intense antitrust review around the world. READ MORE At a Glance: AB InBev Eyes SABMiller Deal A Big Swig: How the Companies Compare Brazilian Tycoons Behind SAB Miller Bid Drinks Stocks Fizzle on Takeover Approach AB InBev Explores Financing to Buy Rival SABMiller (Sept. 15, 2014) Big Volumes Don’t Mean Big Profits in China’s Beer Market SABMiller—which makes over 200 beers including Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Pilsner Urquell and Grolsch—operates across six continents. Belgium-based AB InBev makes Budweiser and Bud Light and is the world’s largest brewer by market share, with major operations around the world. It has 155,000 employees in 25 countries. In the U.S., AB InBev and MillerCoors LLC—SAB’s joint venture with Molson Coors Brewing Co.—control 70% of the market by volume, according to Bernstein. Combining the two groups’ footprint in its current form would amount to roughly 30% of the world’s beer market, according to Euromonitor. Advertisement Shares in SABMiller soared about 23% after the midmorning statement, which it said was in response to media speculation. Shares in AB InBev were up more than 8% after a brief morning suspension. Shares in other brewers, which would be likely buyers of divested assets from a combined company, rose as well. Heineken NV was up 7% and Carlsberg A/B was up 4.8%. An approach from AB InBev to SABMiller’s board came within the last few days, according to a person familiar with the matter. There was no formal proposal or bid because the companies hope to maintain a friendly dialogue, the person said. There haven’t been any meetings yet over a potential deal, the person added. A tie-up between the two beer giants has long been a subject of speculation, as the global mergers-and-acquisition market has roared back to life. The Wall Street Journal reported last year that AB InBev had discussions with some banks about possibly financing a deal. At the same time, SABMiller had approached Dutch brewer Heineken about a deal but was rejected, in what was viewed by some as a takeover defense against an AB InBev bid. This summer, ABI began asking banks to propose possible targets for them to acquire, including SABMiller, said a person familiar with the matter. Those moves followed a report in The Wall Street Journal earlier this year, saying 3GCapital Partners, which owns a major stake in AB InBev, raised about $5 billion from investors for a new takeover fund. Speculation renewed Tuesday that a deal could be brewing after shares of SABMiller spiked. Some media outlets theorized that cancellations at two industry conferences in Boston and London by executives at AB InBev and Altria Group Inc., which owns a minority stake in SAB, could be the cause of the market turmoil. After its shares moved, SABMiller was forced to put out a statement by the Takeover Panel, which determines the rules governing mergers and acquisitions in the U.K. It has set a deadline of 1600 GMT on Oct. 14 for AB InBev to either make an offer or withdraw. What could be the year’s largest acquisition comes amid renewed deal fervor, with the global mergers-and-acquisitions market on pace to hit the highest levels on record. There have been $3.2 trillion worth of deals globally so far this year, up 29% from the year earlier period, according to data provider Dealogic. In the food-and-beverage industry, there has been $127.5 billion worth of deals so far, up 32% from the year-earlier period, Dealogic found. Bernstein analyst Trevor Stirling noted that SABMiller’s share price has been “weak” over the past year, making a deal “much more affordable.” Any proposal likely would have to be a mix of cash and shares, or an all-stock offer with a buyback after. For tax reasons, Altria and the Santo Domingo family—which own large stakes in SABMiller—would prefer to receive shares, Mr. Stirling said. ENLARGE Although a tie-up between the world’s two biggest brewers would hand control of nearly one-third of global beer supply to one company, analysts have said antitrust issues aren’t insurmountable. AB InBev likely would have to sell SABMiller’s stakes in two joint ventures, MillerCoors in the U.S. and CR Snow in China, which SAB co-owns with China Resources Enterprise Ltd. U.S. antitrust authorities would most certainly require a merged AB InBev and SABMiller to divest assets. AB InBev already has a roughly 45% U.S. market share, and MillerCoors LLC, in which SABMiller owns a 58% economic stake, has a roughly 25% U.S. market share. Molson Coors, which owns the other 42% of MillerCoors, would be the most likely candidate to acquire SABMiller’s U.S. business. The Denver-based brewer of Coors Light and Molson Canadian has the right to increase its MillerCoors stake to 50% if SABMiller is acquired and hasn’t ruled out increasing its stake in the past. A spokesman for China Resources Enterprise said he was “unable to confirm anything due to a confidentiality agreement between ourselves and SABMiller.” Buying SABMiller, which had a market capitalization of about $75 billion as of Tuesday evening, would catapult AB InBev, valued at $170 billion, into market-leading positions in Colombia and Peru, as well as many countries in Africa where the Budweiser maker has little presence. In the Middle East and Africa, SAB has 40% of the market while AB InBev has just 0.6%, according to Euromonitor. ENLARGE AB InBev has a history of reshaping the beer industry with large-scale acquisitions. In 2004, Brazil’s AmBev and Belgium’s Interbrew merged to create the global No. 1 brewer by volume, InBev. Four years later, the new company bought Anheuser-Busch in a $52 billion deal and became AB InBev, a cosmopolitan company based in Leuven, Belgium, but run by a mostly Brazilian group of executives in Manhattan. It later bought Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo SAB de CV in a friendly deal for $20.1 billion. A takeover approach for SABMiller by AB InBev recently gained urgency amid slowing beer sales around the globe, including the U.S., AB InBev’s most-important market, where small “craft” brewers are swiping market share. AB InBev’s net profit plunged 32% in the second quarter as sales contracted in four of the company’s six markets, including the U.S. and Brazil. It blamed weak economic conditions and poor weather in several key markets, as well as a tough comparison with a year-earlier period that included the soccer World Cup in Brazil. The company’s second-quarter revenue in the U.S. fell 1.7% to $3.6 billion as it struggles to revive the Budweiser brand. Even Bud Light, which accounts for nearly one of every five beers sold in the U.S. and has remained relatively strong, lost ground slightly in the quarter.
Sure 2 cases of Natty Lite to anyone that helps me move boxes. I'll even throw in all you can eat Hungry Howies pizza. Actually, my wife was unemployed for 2 weeks so I made her go ahead and pack up the house and start moving stuff that we don't want movers to take so most of it is already done. Worked out nicely for me.
Do our resident NY coolkids even switchel? http://modernfarmer.com/2014/10/switchel-heritage-farm-drink-now-big-brooklyn/ Spoiler Deep in the industrial heart of Bushwick, Brooklyn, a few miles north of the neighborhood's main drag, are several rows of former warehouses, now home to local craftsmen. In one, two men bend their heads over a pinewood bench, sanding the spindles smooth. Over on Bogart St., several street artists are repainting a stretch of brick wall, covered in vibrant graffiti, a ritual that takes place every two months. And on the second floor of one former factory, two friends are brewing large batches of switchel, a colonial farm drink that's fast becoming the borough's hottest beverage. Though switchel’s origins are murky – some place its roots in China, others in the Caribbean – the variety brewed by Up Mountain Switchel, a company co-founded by Ely Key and Garrett Riffle, comes from 18th-century Vermont. Perhaps better known by the name haymaker’s punch, there are countless recipes for the drink. Generally speaking, however, switchel consists of water, ginger, cider vinegar, and some kind of sweetener, like molasses or brown sugar. The Vermont variety, not surprisingly, uses maple syrup. Centuries ago this was the thirst-quencher of choice for many farmers, particularly during hay harvests. Workers would take switchel into the fields in mason jars, according to Key, which could be capped and placed under a rock in the river to be kept cold. Although it played an important role in early American culture and was even immortalized in the work of Herman Melville (“I will give a traveler a cup of switchel, if he want it; but am I bound to supply him with a sweet taste?”), the beverage had largely fallen out of use and memory by the time Up Mountain Switchel was born. Back in 2007, Key and Riffle met at a Christmas party out west. Both men, originally East Coasters, had moved to California to work in agriculture; Riffle was in farm consulting, while Key spent some time at a lemon and avocado grove near Ventura. () After a few years, Key moved back East, which is when he heard about switchel from his father, who used to drink it while haying fields in Vermont. Intrigued, he began researching its history and sourced old recipes from his family, friends and old neighbors, who had been passing them down for generations. On a later visit, Riffle and Key decided to go all-in and start Up Mountain. In June of 2012, the pair first attended a farmers market in Vermont and sold their entire stock in pouring rain. The inaugural batch had been brewed in Key’s grandmother’s old red barn in South Londonderry. Throughout that summer, they solicited feedback on taste from those customers – “literally, farmers market research,” Riffle says – and tweaked the recipe, until they arrived at their current formulation: Water, raw organic apple cider vinegar, grade A Vermont maple syrup and ginger root. The biggest change was the use of fresh ginger – colonial brewers had access only to the dried, ground variety – which created a livelier drink that Up Mountain can actually brew in a custom-built kettle, instead of mixing it cold. “That was a game changer, in terms of the flavor profile,” Key says. 1 2 In addition to its sweet-yet-spicy flavor and heritage background, switchel’s health benefits are the main appeal for customers, according to Up Mountain. Each of its three main ingredients can claim various qualities: anti-inflammatory, probiotic, detoxifying, mineral-rich, what have you. In fact, Up Mountain Switchel received its initial loan from a company in the field of progressive healthcare, who see the beverage as a proactive health product that is both hydrating and energizing. Of course, with a formula so perfectly tailored for today’s farm-to-table, artisan-crazed market, Up Mountain is not the only company brewing the stuff. After making switchel at home for almost 27 years, Susan Alexander founded the Vermont Switchel Company in 2009 and began commercial production in 2011. “I began with farmers markets, as a platform for introducing customers to switchel, and within weeks we were approached by several local stores and co-ops,” Alexander says. “Our second year, we had delivery services and distribution covering Vermont, and now we have distribution across the Northeast.” Over the past five years, Alexander has seen growing interest from the health-conscious crowd, thanks largely to their collective discovery of apple cider vinegar, and at the 2014 Natural Products Expo East show in Baltimore, Vermont, switchel was named “a trend to follow.” “Our grandparents knew that switchel was a pure and effective way to stave off dehydration and replenish those electrolytes they lost while toiling in the sun,” she says. “It’s a year-round beverage used to stay hydrated while hiking, biking, skiing or practicing yoga.” It was last December that Key and Riffle moved their operation – a team of seven – down to Brooklyn, and Up Mountain can now be found all across the tri-state area, in corner bodegas, farmers markets in Park Slope and big box stores like Whole Foods. They’re shipping across the country – their first order came from Anchorage, Alaska – while working on new flavors, among other ideas. Vermont Switchel Company will also soon be distributing through the mid-Atlantic and on their website, so switchel fans shan’t lack for options. Although larger companies are undoubtedly gauging interest in the drink – there has been some interest in Up Mountain – it may be some time before you see a version from Coca-Cola and company. Switchel seems to thrive in its homegrown environment, and Key and Riffle don’t want to sell. “Switchel customers appreciate the hands-on — that it’s handmade and has utility,” Riffle says. “We think that with switchel drinkers, there’s this fertile ground for creating positive impact.” Key sums it up modestly: “Without even meaning to, we revitalized a culture, really.”
So this beer saved my ass I think. Yesterday we had lunch catered and 18 people have food poisioning. I want to believe the high alcohol in the beer saved me from food poisioning.
New Orpheus cans coming out soon, Life.Death.Life.Truth Be on the lookout, excellent IPA with Hallertau Blanc, Azacca, and Apollo hops.
The Zwanze Day lineup here in Brooklyn: Spoiler Zwanze Day 2015 Spuyten Duyvil will open at 11am on Saturday Septenber 19th Zwanze beer will be poured at 3pm sharp! On Tap Cantillon St. Lamvinus 2013 Cantillon Iris 2013 Cantillon Fou’ Foune 2014 Hof Ten Dormaal Zure Van Tildonk 2013 Mikkeller Spontansweetcherry Baladin Wayan Sour 2012 Zwanze 2015 Limited Bottles 3 Fonteinen Framboos 3 Fonteinen Intense Red Oude Kriek 3 Fonteinen Oude Gueuze 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek Almanac Dogpatch Sour Cherry Birra Del Borgo Duchessic Birrifico Del Ducato Beersel Mattina The Bruery Sour in the Rye The Bruery Rueuze Cantillon Broucsella 1900 Grand Cru Cantillon Classic Gueuze Cantillon Cuvee Saint-Gilloise Cantillon Iris Cantillon Lou Pepe Frambiose 2011 Cantillon Mamouche Cantillon Saint Lamvinus Cascade Cranberry Sour Ale Cascade Figaro Sour Ale Cisco The Woods Monomy Kriek De Oude Cam Oude Lambiek Hanssens Scarenbecca Kriek Goose Island Madame Rose Goose Island Juliet Goose Island Lolita Pizza Boy Golden Sour 2014 To Øl / Mikkeller Betelgeuze Oude Gueuze Tilquin à L’ancienne Oude Quetsche Tilquin à L’ancienne Unita 21st Anniversary Birthday Suit Vanberg et Famille Lambickx Kriek 2013
SIAP: http://beercamp.sierranevada.com/ Thoughts: They are doing this right for 2016. Regional releases should help correct the freshness issues that the 2014 version had.
7.69 at nstreet. hope you like them. Haven't had the wheat one on the end yet, but everything else I really enjoyed.
So I randomly decided to drive to kc today. I really shouldn't schedule myself for four days off in a row. I get squirrelly.
Anyone remember the cherry style beer that was from one of the Carolina's? Think it was a small batch beer