What’s On Tap: Ed Ramshaw Discusses the Upcoming New England Homebrewers Jamboree!

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Bert’s Better Beers’ Draft Pick(s) of the Week:

1. Bissel Brothers

 

2. Flying Fish Hopfish IPA

3. Sweet Baby Jesus!

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1.Can a Little Packet Make Macro Beer Delicious?

Better? Yes. Amazing? Unlikely.

The surest sign that we’re living in the golden age of technology: a tea bag that promises to make crap beer taste like craft beer.

The product is called “Hop Theory” and it’s a small packet filled with hops, spices, and a bit of orange peel, that, when dunked into that pint of Coors Light you ordered, could brighten your spirits. The only drawback is that you have to be that guy with a tea bag in your beer.

“I’m a student and I can’t always afford to buy $7 beers at the bar,” says Bobby Gattuso, founder of Hop Theory. The 25-year-old is studying functional biology of animals at university. But despite being on the pre-med track he says that what he really wants to do is get into the beer business. “My whole goal in life is to own a microbrewery,” he says, adding that his successful Kickstarter campaign is his first step into that industry. READ MORE

2. Crash spills beer onto I-75

BROOKSVILLE, FL (WFLA) — A beer truck driver, who investigators say was distracted by his dog, lost control of his big rig and crashed, spilling beer cans onto southbound I-75 in Hernando County on Tuesday morning.

Florida Highway Patrol investigators say at 7:32 a.m., Malcolm Jamal Wilcox, 23, of Fernandina Beach was traveling southbound in the outside lane and was passing over SR 50 when he became distracted by a small dog in his truck. READ MORE

3. Here’s what happens to the body 24 hours after drinking a beer

People have been going crazy over recent infographics which show what happens to the body after drinking Coke, but a new one that has caught our attention is the effects beer has on the body 24 hours after consuming it.We all know too much of a good thing can be detrimental, but have you ever thought what that one or two beers at after-work drinks is doing to you?According to alcoholgifts.co.uk, which created the imagery, just 5 minutes after a beer, its alcohol is absorbed into your bloodstream and immediately begins to affect your brain and muscles.Over the next hour your body tries to deal with what it sees as a “poison”, trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible.See for yourself. Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/heres-what-happens-to-the-body-24-hours-after-drinking-a-beer-2015-8#ixzz3jMRXQ6WS

4. The Podcast Resurgence: Your Definitive Listening Guide

SOME OF YOU might have no idea what a podcast is. Some of you may have listened to them back in 2005, when they were declared the future of radio, and then stopped in 2008, when they clearly weren’t the future of radio. Many of you probably listen to “Serial,” not realizing that other amazing podcasts exist. (They do!)

But no matter where you stand on the podcast-consuming spectrum, we’re going to repeat what folks said back in 2005 because it’s for real now: Podcasts are awesome. You should listen to some.

Essentially a free-form radio show delivered on-demand over the Internet rather than the airwaves, podcasts have come a long way in the past decade. Last year, “Serial” became a breakaway smash hit (episodes of the show have been downloaded 95.7 million times to date). People were talking about the serialized nonfiction crime story around the water cooler. “Saturday Night Live” did a parody. Podcasts were, at last, mainstream. READ MORE

 

Hop Head United’s Cork Board:

August 20th – New England Homebrewers Jamboree!

August 29th – Hoptalk in Nashua NH

 

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