Putting the BEER Back in Beer Control Offense

Mega Beer post for Will da Thrill.

Craft Brewery in Floyd, Va .... FLOYD, VA ... REALLY?

From BCO Pix2

Yes, really and with a cool twist.

Shooting Creek Brewery

American Farmhouse Ales
Handbuilt, Homegrown and Handcrafted in beautiful Floyd County Virginia

Both a Farm and a Brewery, we produce much of the hops, honey and grains used in our beers. Brewed in small batches, our unique beers will please, refresh and inspire.

6 beer styles to start
Altbier
Wheat
IPA
Rye
Stout
Brown

Production to start soon, seems the religious right has held them back a lil, since Floyd is way the hell out there in Conservative Country. Blacksburg will certainly get a lot of their beer. BCO is very excited and hope they succeed and can't wait to try their beers, specially the IPA, Rye and Stout. Good luck.


National IPA Championship
presented by Great Lakes Brewing

From BCO Pix2

64 IPA's ... hop it out to 1. Last year Green Flash Brewing Co. West Coast IPA took home the prize. The BCO is beergeeky enough to have the results of each round emailed to him. MMMMM, hops.

The Link is here, if a hophead ... go, participate.

Great Lakes Brewing News is thrilled to annouce the 2nd Annual National IPA Challenge. As with last year, participating IPAs from across the nation will be randomly chosen for a 1:1 single elimination bracket tournament. Winners of the first round will advance to the next. The complete IPA tournament bracket (see outline on back of this page) will be published in the February/March issue of Great Lakes Brewing News and posted on-line. The events will be held at beer festivals across the nation, beginning February 22. The judges will all be brewers.

As with last year, IPA lovers will be able to choose their winners for each round on-line.

Brackets:
(HTML) here
(PDF) here

BCO Final 4 favorites are:
Great Divide Titan IPA - (darkhorse Pearl Street Caskastrophe)
Founder's Red Rye PA - (darkhorse Bear Republic Apex)
Green Flash West Coast IPA - (darkhorse Great Lakes Commodore Perry IPA)
Bell's Two Hearted IPA - (darkhorse Brewkettle Production Works Red Eye IPA)


Beer Bailout $$

From BCO Pix2

Realbeer link here. The dual party ass clowns might actually do something to help out us Beer drinkers ... via helping the brewer's themselves. Not sure how the BCO feels about this since I think 70% of the stimulus bill is horseshit, this looks like it may actually give some relief to breweries. Either way it's beer news.

The Beer Institute and the Brewers Association today applauded members of the United States House of Representatives for the introduction of H.R. 836 the Brewers Excise and Economic Relief (BEER) Act, which effectively returns the federal beer excise tax back to its pre-1991 level of $9 per barrel.

“There is strong, industry-wide support for this legislation, and we thank Congress for its bipartisan effort to institute tax fairness for one of the most productive sectors of the American economy,” said Tom Long, President and Chief Commercial Officer of MillerCoors, and Chairman of the Beer Institute. “We commend Reps. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) and Tom Latham (R-IA) for their leadership on this important issue, and we urge Congress to help provide relief to low- and middle-income families and businesses in America’s brewing community by passing this legislation as quickly as possible.”

Today, there are over 2,053 brewing companies in the United States operated by national brewers, regional brewers, regional craft brewers, microbrewers, and brewpubs. These job-creating businesses are in every state in the nation. In fact, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a brewery. In addition to reducing the tax burden on large brewers and beer importers the legislation introduced today provides specific relief to small brewers by reducing their tax burden from $7.00 to $3.50 per barrel.

North Carolina's Pisgah Brewing Pale Ale - 22oz Bombers

From BCO Pix2

Link here and here. Nice new updated website by them. As Will as confirmation, Pisgah's pale ale is very, very good. One of the top 2 Pale Ales, I have ever had and I will have to find a way to western NC to pick some of this up in bottled bomber. Last and only one was in a brewery poured growler.


Weyerbacher Echo

From BCO Pix2

Weyerbacher Echo could be a BCO fave ... it's a Rye-PA. I need to get to Pennsylvanina quick!!

“A Deep-Copper Rye-PA”

We have timed the release of Echo to coincide with Philly Craft Beer Week (3/6-3/15). We will be taking part in events nearly every night throughout the Philadelphia Area, including the suburbs, and plan to feature Echo at most of them. Keep an eye on the website for a full list of events. You also have a chance to find it in Maryland, Western PA, Boston, NYC and parts of Florida. A very limited amount of 12oz. bottles will be available at our Visitor’s Center as well.

It will be a 6.8%, 60IBU IPA, brewed with pale, crystal, carapils, and 30% rye along with a good dose of Simcoe and Centennial hops. This deep-copper ale combines the citrus kick of the hops with the spicy twang that comes from 30% rye malt. It is a Winter IPA to bridge the gap between now and Spring.

The beer should be available in the Visitor’s Center on Saturday, March 7th.

mmmm, Weyerbacher does a good job with Simcoe and Centennial is a IPA staple (think 2 hearted an Stone brews.) Having drank and brewed Rye beers, 30% Rye is a Large amount in the grain bill. I bet I don't get a shot at it, but I would trade do a Hop Slam beer trade for it.

Beer Bullets

• Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA is out and getting very good reviews. I have not had it yet.
• Victory Hop Devil + Wild Yeast = Victory Wild Devil. Interesting.
• BCO will checkout first hand Blacksburg's first Brewpub, Bull and Bones Brewhaus when I head up for the doook @ VT game. Review to follow.