theslats February 11th, 2010
To help get everyone excited about the tasting on Sunday.
It seems that as soon as the Christmas displays are taken down on Dec. 26, shops are suddenly filled with the red hearts and cupids of Valentine’s Day. Stuffed bears, flower displays, jewelry store sales and offers for romantic island getaways seem to be everywhere.
One item, however, seems to trump all others on the national day of love.
Chocolate.
HDBA March 27th, 2008
Don’t forget to track down a good session beer April 7th.
This year we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the modification of the Volstead Act on April 7, 1933, which allowed beer to legally flow once again in the United States of America. Not to be confused with the repeal of prohibition on December 5th, 1933, April 7 marks the date when beer was the only legal libation in the United States.
This April there will be special celebrations, special release beers, and general merrymaking across the country in honor of this milestone. Join your local brewery as we toast to the 75th anniversary of legal beer.
Read the whole press release here
The only local establishment listed is Portneuf Valley Brewing If you know of others let me know so I can spread the word.
HDBA March 12th, 2008
I missed this the first time it aired so I was excited to see it making the rounds again this Monday.
http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=276968
It’s one of the world’s oldest and most beloved beverages–revered by Pharaohs and brewed by America’s Founding Fathers. Today, brewing the bitter elixir is a multi-billion-dollar global industry. Join us for an invigorating look at brewing’s history from prehistoric times to today’s cutting-edge craft breweries, focusing on its gradually evolving technologies and breakthroughs. We’ll find the earliest known traces of brewing, which sprang up independently in such far-flung places as ancient Sumeria, China, and Finland; examine the surprising importance that beer held in the daily and ceremonial life of ancient Egypt; and at Delaware’s Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, an adventurous anthropologist and a cutting-edge brewer show us the beer they’ve concocted based on 2,700-year-old DNA found in drinking vessels from the funerary of the legendary King Midas.
Monday, March 17 11:00 AM local time
Monday, March 17 05:00 PM local time
