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01/17/2017

Available today St. Arnold Divine Reserve No. 17 a Baltic Porter.

11/16/2015

Just reported this morning Ballast Point Brewing sold.

http://draftmag.com/report-ballast-point-sells-to-constellation-brands-for-1-billion/

The San Diego brewery and sprits maker joins the same portfolio of brands as Corona and Modelo.

05/25/2015

Aloha

This will be the franchise’s first venture to the city.Coconut's Fish Cafe, the Hawaiian-based seafood franchise, is coming to Austin, as reported by the Austin Business Journal. The Austin franchise …

05/09/2015

Live Oak Brewing Co.Live Oak Brewing Co. Get Directions - 3301 E. 5th St. AustinThirsty Planet Brewing Co.Thirsty Planet Brewing Co. Get Directions - 11160 Circle Drive AustinAdelbert's …

02/22/2015

GuideThe Super Bowl is upon us, which for many food-obsessed folks is an excellent excuse to eat greasy, caloric pub grub. From all-American burgers and fries to spicy chili (look, Ma, no beans!) to …

02/22/2015

The kitchen—a place of respite for some folks, stress for others, and likely the most popular room in the home to reconnect, talk, sip and nosh. Recipes are made, dishes are everywhere, a pot’s on …

01/16/2015

We’ve seen some pretty weird things done with beer in the past – zombie beer brewed with smoked goat brains, garlic-flavored beer, and even a beer-based breakfast spread. But this Icelandic beer has …

10/10/2014

We know that yeasts produce the molecules that make ales and lagers so aromatic. But why do they do it?Whether you're catching a whiff of banana from a tall glass of Hefewiezen or enjoying the subtle floral aromas in your favorite American IPA, you have yeast to thank for it. Yeast imbues beer with aromatic molecules that account for a great deal of its final flavor; almost all wild yeasts create these pleasant smells and tastes as they eat.Yet even though we know yeast is the reason beer tastes so good, we don't know exactly why it does it. But in a new study, a team of scientists led by Kevin Verstrepen, a yeast geneticist at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology and the Belgian University of Leuven, has showed why these tiny microbes make the flavors we savor.In a new paper in the journal Cell, the scientists detail the results of four experiments on yeast. It turns out that for yeast, producing these delicious aromatic molecules is a bit like hailing a taxi. The smell lures in wandering flies, to which yeasts hitch a ride so they can disperse throughout nature.Serendipity and Dirty Lab Equipment"This theory actually came about entirely by accident," Verstrepen says. Fifteen years ago, working on his Ph.D., he was investigating the gene that controls the production of these aromatic molecules in yeast. "At one point on a Friday night, I was in hurry to get to the bar and didn't clean up my experiment as well as I should have," he says.He accidentally left out three flasks of yeast. "One flask had a mutant strain of yeast that produced 100 times more [of these aromatic molecules], one flask contained normal yeast, and a third had a yeast with this aroma gene partially knocked out," Verstrepen says."When I returned Monday morning, I found that somehow fruit flies had gotten into the lab," he says. And realizing that he had unwittingly set up an experiment, he wrote down the results. "Fifty flies drowned in the mutant flask, two drowned in the flask of normal yeast, and the flask with the [nonaromatic] yeast didn't have any," he says. "You don't have to be a genius to start to draw some conclusions from that."All these years later Verstrepen teamed up with a group of fly neurobiologists to test his idea. They did it in four parts."The Arena"1. In the first of Verstrepen's experiments, the scientists identified and picked out a particularly potent aroma-producing yeast strain. They then knocked out the gene called ATF1, which is responsible for creating th …

06/18/2014

We’re changing Austin’s nickname from River City to Craft Beer County. Why? The number of microbreweries is exploding. Beyond the beers themselves, here are six of the most important people creating them.

03/27/2014

The Alamo Draft­house and Dog­fish Head Craft Brew­ery are join­ing forces again to present the Off-Centered Film Fes­ti­val on April 24 - 26. Cel­e­brat­ing great beer and kick-ass movies, this year' …

03/27/2014

Austin is cur­rent­ly enjoy­ing a gold­en age of craft beer, and a num­ber of the city's best restau­rants and bars also offer great food to pair with the abun­dance of local and rare brews. From beer …

03/25/2014

Interesting.

[Photo: Dock Street / Facebook]Philadelphia microbrewery Dock Street Brewing Company has created a tribute beer for AMC zombie show The Walking Dead, and it contains brains. Smoked goat brains, to be specific, along with wheat, oats, flaked barley, and cranberry. Yum? The...