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Beer News For Episode 138
Posted By Brian Johnson on May 7th, 2009
There was a nice write up about Nebraska Brewing Company in the Omaha World Herald . The article was written on the night of the bus ride to Beer Wars. It did mention that NBC was the third largest brewery in the state.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=3945&u_sid=10618444
Larry Bell founder of Bell’s brewery in Michigan is suing one of his distributors trying to block they from selling the rights to sell his beer to an AB InBev distributor.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/04/28/eccentric-brewmaster-takes-distribution-fight-to-court/
The Brewers Association released this years breweries per capita list. Nebraska ranks 15th with fifteen breweries for every 118,895 people. John and I ran down the list and could only come up with 11. If you count Granite City it would be 12.
http://beervana.blogspot.com/2009/04/breweries-per-capita.html
Posted in Beer News
Episode 130 – Three Beers and a Mystery Drink
Posted By John on March 6th, 2009
Enjoying the fruits of Marissa’s travels we tried four beers from around the country this week.
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Beers of the Week
Beer: Purple Haze Raspberry infused wheat.
Brewery: Abita
Notes: This beer was a mystery to us. It had a nice raspberry aroma and when you drank it it was like drinking carbonated mineral water. It had no real flavors and no real defects. Finished like it was not even there. We nicknamed it the “raspberry ghost”.
| John: C | Brian: C | C+ |
| Marissa: C | Anne: B |
Beer: Censored Rich Copper Ale
Brewery: Laguanitas
Notes: Malty, hoppy beer overall ok. May have been a bit out of date.
| John: C | Brian: C | C+ |
| Marissa: B | Anne: C+ |
Beer: Black and Tan
Brewery: Yuenglings
Notes: Fair. This particular beer seemed a bit thin flavor and body. Not bad, but didn’t seem to gain anything by the blended flavors.
| John: C+ | Brian: C+ | C |
| Marissa: C | Anne: C- |
Beer: Kalamazoo Stout
Brewery: Bells Brewery
Notes: Bit thin. Taste and flavor more similar to a porter. Ours was oxidized, probably a bit old.
| John: C- | Brian: D+ | D+ |
| Marissa: D+ | Anne: D- |
Posted in Podcasts
History of Bell Brewing Company
Posted By Ryan Cairns on January 13th, 2009
The Bell Brewing company history dates back to 1976 when Larry Bell moved from a suburb of Chicago to Kalamazoo MI, to attend college. After two years of college he ran short of funds and had to take a job in a local bakery. A fellow employee introduced him to his first taste of homebrewed beer.
After moving into a house with three beer-guzzling buddies, Bell remembered the idea of homebrewing and realized that he could make all the beer they wanted for much less money. He took great interest in this new hobby reading brewing publications and
learning the tricks of the trade.
With a cash gift from a family member the Kalamazoo Brewing Supply Company was founded in 1983 as a home brewing supply shop. His reputation as a homebrewer caught the attention of a local spice extraction company executive that wanted to try some brewing experiments with hops.
This new relationship developed into a financial backer to incorporate the Kalamazoo Brewing Company in April of 1985. The initial investment started out with $39,000 which was used to purchase re-conditioned restaurant equipment for brewing purposes.
In late 1985 they began to sell beer producing 135 barrels in it’s first year. These first batches were brewed in a 15 gallon soup kettle and fermented in open fermenter covered with saran wrap.
The brewery encompasses about 1.4 acres of underdeveloped buildings in an industrial/commercial area on the east side of town. Most of the buildings date back to the WWII era including a munitions plant, a car repair garage, plumbing supply house, and a 1950’s era beer and wine store. He has grand future plans for the location including an outdoor beer garden, festival area, and additional paved parking. But first he wants to spend and additional$10,000 on a new microbiological lab for yeast culturing and quality control.
They currently have 23 employees operating three brew houses. With the addition of a production brewery in nearby Comstock, Michigan in 2003 it boosted their total brewing capacity to 140,000 bbls.
A couple of neat facts !
The opening of The Eccentric Cafe in 1993 marked the first Michigan brewery to serve beer by the glass to the public in the state of Michigan, and also the first brew pub in
the state.
Bells brewery is the oldest craft brewer east of Colorado
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