Subject: Breweries

• Budweiser vs. Stella Artois: A Taste Test

  July 14, 2008

• Breakfast Buffet: Monday 7/21

  July 21, 2008

• Avery Beer tasting tonight at Flying Saucer

  October 13, 2008

• Best Weekend Getaway

  October 19, 2000

• Kansas City Strip

  August 9, 2001

• Best Tribute to Lewis and Clark

  October 7, 2004

• Breakfast Buffet: Wednesday 02/25

  When is a drop in beer sales a good thing? When it comes from the world's biggest breweries and it means people are moving towards craft beer. [Gone Mild]A lively discussion of the worst fast food chains that continue to pedal their greasy wares. [Hot Blog on a Stick]Why do fruit flies prefer certain fruits to others? Screw that scientists -- why don't you study why I hate dates and green apples? [Scientific Blogging]A group of Kansas City bloggers check out St. Louis for Mardi Gras and somehow

  February 25, 2009

• Boulevard in aluminum: step forward or backward?

  Flickr: HerkieYesterday Boulevard Brewing Co. announced it was going to start selling Boulevard Wheat in aluminum cans very soon. It used to be rare for microbreweries such as Boulevard to venture into the world of aluminum. Similar-sized breweries such as Sierra Nevada and O'Dell's have yet to turn to aluminum. It was only last year that Colorado's New Belgium started canning its most popular seller Fat Tire.At the time, New Belgium said the reason for the cans was to be more versatile -- for t

  March 6, 2009

• Coming to theaters for one night only: Beer Wars

  Talking about and drinking so much beer from Boulevard, Schlafly, New Belgium and other midsized breweries, it's easy to forget that microbrewers combined make up a small minority of the beer business. Eighty percent of the beer brewed in this country comes from only two giants -- SAB, which owns MillerCoors, and InBev which owns Anheuser-Busch.As the new movie Beer Wars explains, Davids like Boulevard are competing for ever-larger pieces of the pie with the two above-mentioned Goliaths. But the

  April 1, 2009

• Fairways 4 Fuzz Benefit Golf Tournament

  August 21, 2008

• Drink Up Outside

  April 24, 2008

• Monday Spaghetti Feast

  March 6, 2008

• Boulevard still 8th-biggest craft brewer

  Yesterday, the Brewers Association released its Top 50 Breweries List based on sales in 2008.Boulevard ranks as the 16th-largest brewery in the country. When compared to only fellow craft brewers, it rises to number 8, which is where the company ranked last year. Once again Anheuser-Busch is the largest brewer and Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) is the largest craft brewer.Flickr: HerkieTo qualify as a craft brewer, the brewer must be "small, independent, and traditional." That means it can't pr

  April 15, 2009

• Drink Up

  October 11, 2007

• Bully Wars

  Hometown hero Boulevard Brewery faces a fight for our taps.

  August 2, 2007

• Beer Wars tonight

  Tonight is finally the night for Beer Wars, a documentary about the rise of micro-brewers and the battle against the two 800-pound gorillas -- SAB and Anheuser-Busch. For some reason, the film is being shown in theaters for one night only and at only one time, 7 p.m. Theaters showing it include AMCs in Olathe, Leawood and North Kansas City, Cinemark on the Plaza, Cinemark in Merriam and the Regal Kansas City 18 Cinemas at Casino Station.After the film, there is a live Web cast with the brewers i

  April 16, 2009

• Auggie and me

  Along with about 25 other people, I shuffled into an AMC theater last night to watch the wanna-be cause-celebre movie Beer Wars. People hoping for a first-rate bashing of big business and big beer were not disappointed. From the opening moment, director Anat Baron had Miller, Coors and especially Anheuser-Busch in her bullseye. In an effort to save memory space, I stopped keeping track of the film's reasons Anheuser-Busch is evil but here's a partial list: It makes an inferior product; it's real

  April 17, 2009

• Ehren Starks and Kate Gurba

  Wednesday, April 23, at the Daily Dose, 135th and Quivira in Overland Park.

  April 17, 2003

• Border Wars for Autism

  May 28, 2009

• Beer enemies join forces

  The film Beer Wars painted the world of brewing as a ferocious battle between little guys such as Dogfish Head and New Belgium being bullied by the multi-national giants of Miller, Coors and especially Anheuser-Busch. One of director Anat Baron's targets was the powerful lobbying group the Beer Institute, which she implied was the bane of the small brewer, pushing only the agenda of Anheuser-Busch. According to The Atlantic, though, The Beer Institute has now joined forces with its arch-nemesis,

  June 10, 2009

• USA number one! In bad beer!

  To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, America can't get no respect.  There are 1,500 breweries in the United States, the majority putting out good pale ales and porters. But when it comes to the way the rest of the world sees us, it all of that beer might as well be Budweiser. In the travel Web site Titanic's survey of 1,600 people from 80 countries, America received 23 percent of the vote for "makes the world's worst beer" and Budweiser received the most nominations for worst beer. China was s

  June 19, 2009

• Grinders

  September 11, 2008

• Breakfast Buffet: Wednesday, 7/15

  A wonderful post about a Mexican restaurant, sellers at the City Market and the eventual takeover of the U.S. by foreign vodka. [KC With a Russian Accent]If the failing financial firm CIT Group (not to be confused with failing bank Citigroup) does go bankrupt, the results could be disastrous for many small businesses and restaurants. [WSJ]The two largest Japanese brewers are looking to merge, creating a company that would rival InBev and SABMiller in size. [The Economist]Are you rich and single?

  July 15, 2009

• Flying Saucers

  July 23, 2009

• Foster's: Australian for luxury beer

  ​Foster's is set to release a $70 bottle of beer today (that would be approximately $58.42 in U.S. dollars) to the Australian market. This is the second vintage of the Crown Ambassador Reserve Lager (CARL), which is sold in a champagne-style bottle and meant to be drunk from a wine glass.Only 6,000 bottles of CARL will be produced from the Australian brewer best known for its trademark blue and gold oil cans of lager. The Foster's Group is apparently hoping to capitalize on the growing luxury

  August 3, 2009

• Happy-Hour Hit list: College Bars

  August 20, 2009

• Beer prices and a ballclubs' records

  ​Beer tastes better when the home team is winning. It's colder and the Beer Man is always around when you want him. The steps don't seem as steep and hot dogs go down like shrimp cocktail. But when the Royals are losing, the beer can be as stale as a bar floor the next morning. There may be one saving grace to the Royals' recent run of poor seasons -- the beer is likely cheaper. The Wall Street Journal decided to see whether there was a correlation between winners and higher beer prices: A tea

  September 14, 2009

• Craft beer trends: Collaboration and barrel-aging

  ​The Boston Beer Company is a great barometer for what's happening with the craft beer market, so the announcement of the Samuel Adams Barrel Room Collection is great news for beer fans.The limited-edition brews are aged in barrels that go back to when the makers of Sam Adams first began experimenting with the process 16 years ago. Barrel aging -- a burgeoning trend in craft brewing -- offers brewers the opportunity to infuse a richness of flavor such as fruit or smoky overtones, depending on

  November 9, 2009

• With its Ripple venture, Boulevard Brewing sees the future through recycled glass

  November 12, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Tuesday, November 17

  A day of home brewing focuses on British style beers. [KC Hop Head]It's the right time of year for a fire and that means one thing: S'mores Bars. [Cooking With Carrie]A look at the craft beer movement in Britain, as the battle for best lager heats up. [The Guardian]Have you tried to buy Eggo waffles but the store has been sold out? A flood at the company's plant in Atlanta, Georgia, is responsible for the waffle shortage. [Bloomberg]

  November 17, 2009