Barbax Drink News March Archive
Mexico emerging as quality wine making region
After many years of mediocre wines at best,
experienced wine makers and new viticultural practices influencing grape and wine
quality Mexican wines are becoming more drinkable. Even their premium products
have won countless international awards. They are still a growing industry one a wine
enthusiast should defiantly keep there eye on.
Posted by Barbax News 3/01/05 Drink News
That’s right folks, the day has finally come. Thanks to the makers of Sofia
Blanc de Blancs the public can now drink champagne from a can. And for
those of you who are thinking that this is a joke, you are only kidding yourself.
Now you can drink your canned champagne with your head held high. A four
pack retails for about $20. You can learn more about them here
Posted by Barbax News 3/01/05 Drink News
Aspiring to be a Fredericksbeer Virginian
In
brewing and overall enjoying beer. Could this be the reason behind so much brew related
money changing hands here? Although
is working hard to boost
nets about $162 billion a year including 1.8 million jobs (54 billion in wages). Taxes from federal to
local are said to generate upwards of $30 billion a year. So maybe the rest of the country should
aspire to be just a little a bit more like Fredericksburg Virginians and pick up a cold one and support
the economy. Paying taxes has never been this much fun.
Posted by Barbax News 3/09/05 Drink News
Miller in testing faze of a new fruit malt drink
Since 2002 one of Miller’s affiliate companies has been brewing a malt beverage that
is being sold in
Because of its extreme popularity Miller is now going into the testing faze to see the
commercial viability of this drink in the
are going to be the taste testers for this new drink. Apparently Petersburgians’ have sophisticated
pallets because back in 1990
Tim Hamlin, vice president of sales at Kozak Beverages Inc. in
learned from those trials brought about the Ice House brand beer. It makes us all wonder if Miller’s
new drink will ever be able to live up to the rigid standards and expectations that were set for us by
the fine Ice House brew.
Posted by Barbax News 3/10/05 Drink News
Recently
there has been a dispute over the lumber tariffs imposed on the Canadian export. As a retaliatory
measure
being the number 2 market for
unfair to entangle the wine industry in issues of which they have no evolvement. Jon Fredrikson of
Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates, a Woodside wine industry consultant, agreed stating "We don't
like to see wine used as a pawn in these international trade disputes." Jon I think all of us would
have to agree.
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Everyone is drinking it
Every bar we go to now, people are ordering it. Fat Tire beer from the New Belgium
brewery is making quit an impression in the beer drinking community. Jeff Lebesch an
electrical engineer/ home-brewer is the mastermind behind the increasingly popular brew.
He has noted that he was inspired by “Belgian brewers’ impressive pallet of ingredients.”
Jeff returned home to
created two beers we have grown to know and love, Abbey, and Fat Tire. In 1991
Jeff and his wife Kim turned their basement brewery into a commercial operation and
have progressed ever since. “We had a neighbor paint watercolors that we printed up
as beer labels,” Kim states retrospectively “Jeff would brew, we would bottle together
with some help from our son, Zack, then I would call accounts and deliver the beer.
I’d get a lot of friendly ribbing pulling up in my station wagon full of beer next to these
16-bay Budweiser trucks." Fortunately for us this “friendly ribbing” did not detour the
young couple from moving forward and bringing us this quality brew. The New Belgium
Brewing Company based in
beer enthusiasts.
You are having trouble finding it or haven’t tried it yet you can get it from our advertiser
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A new approach to alcoholic consumption
When I first read the news release I was fairly surprised to find out that
in
automatically assume this is bad, yet there is a method behind their madness. It is often in
college when people pick up the bad habits of binge drinking. The small liberal arts school
hopes to curb this waning trend by teaching its students to drink the right way, in moderation.
Although the results are still yet to be seen I believe this has a high probability of working.
There are not a whole lot of instances between the keggers and beer bonging that one gets to
learn how to be a social drinker in college. The steps
provide this social avenue of drinking in moderation. “They say you will forget everything you
learn in college,” but apparently not how to drink.
Posted by Justin 3/12/05 Drink News
After a prolonged investigation and a lot of undercover work, we have discovered a startling truth.
From the information gathered one can only assume that this has been going on for many years now.
There is a sport called Curling. Many people know the name and may even know the rules; but did
you also know that there are actually fans? Yes that’s right fans, numbering in the thousands. Ok that’s
great but why is this Barbax news worthy? The answer is quite simple and it comes in two pints. The
first pint is: they like to drink. The second pint: they like to drink. This “cool crowd” knows how to have
fun “…trading pins and telling stories” all the while having “the largest consumption of alcohol with the
lowest number of problems.” So your telling us there is going to beer, ok were sold. Cheers curling fans!
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