RateBeer's Best Beers

RateBeer is known as one of the top websites for beer lovers. Along with Beer Advocate, it is the primary place to write beer reviews. RateBeer has just released the results of their annual competition. The results are here. Three Floyds Brewing Company was rated as the best brewery in the world. Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter, an Imperial Stout from Sweden was rated as the best beer in the world.

It is important to remember that these rankings are based on RateBeer's rating systems. Their rating system gives equal weight to the appearance of the beer as it does to the flavor.

Philly Beer Week - Whoops!

I recently came across this MSNBC article on Philly Beer Week. The weeklong fest is actually ten days as it runs from March 6th until March 15th.

The article points out that the original passes for the week long event look pretty snazzy, except for the fact that the skyline of New York City appears in the background rather than say, you know, Philly? The organizers of the event have quickly adjusted to the mistake and are printing up new passes. I say forget the mistake, this is a great PR move. When was the last time you saw anything about craft beer on MSNBC?

For more information on Philly Craft Beer Week, you can check out the official site here.

2009 National IPA Championship

The 2009 National IPA Championship is here again. In case you don't remember we covered last year's championship when Ithaca's Flower Power advanced to the final four. Flower Power is back this year to make another run along with fellow Ithaca Beer Company's Cascazilla and Lake Placid's India Pale Ale.

Let's hope tha Ithaca or lake Placid can bring the championship to new york this year.

Bryce Eddings Ignores Loves The Foaming Head!

Editor's Note: Bryce has added us! Both of our blogs are on his blog role. We are glad that he took this blog entry as the good natured joke that it was meant to be. Bryce is a great writer and if you have not subscribed to his About.com beer newsletter then we suggest you head there and do so now.

I subscribe to About.com's beer e-mail newsletter written by beer enthusiast Bryce Eddings (left). The e-mail usually contains three short articles from Bryce about the current going ons in the beer world. The articles are always interesting and entertaining. So imagine my excitement when I got my new e-mail and one of the articles was a list on great beer blogs that Bryce has recently come across. We not only have this great beer blog dedicated to Domestic Craft beer but another great craft beer bog dedicated to New York Craft Beer. Clearly at least one of the blogs would have been listed. Heck, we have even started video bogging our beer! Well it turned out neither of our blogs was listed! We are even Facebook and Aleuminati friends with Bryce! It may take awhile but I have a feeling I will be able to forgive Mr. Eddings. Despite the glaring omission this is a great list as all of the following blogs are very good and I read the majority of them.

Brookston Beer Bulletin
Pete Brown's Blog
Yours for Good Fermentables
Homebrew Korea
Beer Haiku Daily
Got Beer?
Stonch's Beer BlogA Good Beer Blog
The Realbeer.com Blog
The Beer PhilosopherHome Brew Beer
Days That End in Y
Kegerators Blog
Monday Night Brewery
Seen Through a Glass
Jack Curtain's Liquid Diet Online

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