The National Journal “analyzed Scarborough Research data, which includes 200,000 interviews with American adults, to determine the politics of beer drinkers.” What did this totally legit survey determine? For starters, Dos Equis is a bipartisan brew — Republicans and Democrats both like to drink it. Republicans love their Coors Light and favor Sam Adams, while [...]
Designer Petit Romain of France came up with the concept of the cubed beer bottle back in 2008 to make the bottles more efficient for manufacturing, storage, transportation, and of course, storing in your dorm room mini-fridge. [via theurbn]
Gary Dzen, who runs the Boston Globe‘s 99 Bottles beer blog, travels to Waterbury, VT, who many consider New England’s best beer town. It doesn’t take long to feel comfortable in Waterbury. At Prohibition Pig, local pickled vegetables and a pulled pork sandwich make for a satisfying lunch. The bar is the only place besides [...]
Serious Eats put together a slideshow (boo!) guide to the regional sandwiches of America. It is incredibly extensive, featuring plenty of sandwich styles I was unfamiliar with and plenty that pleased me to see make the list. It’s a good day when you can debate the merits of the fluffenutter, the spiedie, the monte cristo, and [...]
One of the biggest problems with certified organic food is that it costs so much money to get certified by the government that small farms that are organic can’t afford to do so, while larger farms that aren’t technically organic can do what’s necessary to secure certification. Certified organic signifies the use of synthetic pesticides, [...]
Sam Kass, the White House chef, has released the recipes for two beers brewed on-premises at the White House: Honey Ale and Honey Porter. I love that they include the use of honey made from the bee-hive on the South Lawn and aside from that, the recipes seem easy enough to make for the home brewer. “As far [...]
The Compendious Coffee Chart by Pop Chart Lab demonstrates the byzantine ways one can make their favorite cup of coffee. A limited edition of five hundred 24″ x 18″ signed and numbered prints are now available to purchase from the online store for just $27. A comprehensive compendium of the varied ways–from Chemex contraptions to French presses to the simple [...]
The Wall Street Journal’s Ben Kesling looks into the secretive world of Tootsie Roll Industries. You wouldn’t think a profile on a candy company would be deeply fascinating, but then you would be dead wrong. There’s some Willy Wonka shit going down at this company. The 116-year-old company, run by one of America’s oldest CEOs, has [...]
