Beer and Food

Greetings,

In the top of the news today we find “The Daily Green” (an ecologically aware newsletter) noticing the hops drought…

http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/eat-safe/beer-high-prices-ethanol-45010708

Enough bad news…  Let’s get hoppy!

Take a look at my friend Ray Beauchemin’s take on a holiday beer treat brewed in Quebec…

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/arts/story.html?id=24063a2e-d7f3-4248-b6fe-4a66dd5bff15

For my buddies in Vermont… Stonecutters is back in Barre!

http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080113/NEWS02/801130413/1003/NEWS02

And the Wichita Eagle announces that a “Tiny brewpub livens up Beaver, population 30″… (That tells us that there is no place too small to support good beer!)

http://www.kansas.com/news/state/story/268085.html

From Europe

The Edinburgh Evening News tells us that “A GRADUATE from Heriot-Watt University is to represent Scotland in the final of a UK competition promoting entrepreneurship among students and graduates. He… set up Leeds Brewery, the Yorkshire city’s first independent brewery, which has only four employees.”

http://news.scotsman.com/education/Graduate-up-for-national-business.3682535.jp

And the Lancashire Telegraph brings us good news…

http://www.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk/news/business/news/display.var.1967767.0.brewery_can_toast_record_festive_sales.php

And that’s the news…

Cheers!

Peter LaFrance

(peter.lafrance@beerbasics.com )