Travel by the Pint: the Blog

An Atlanta brewery teamed up with a rainwater recovery company to brew green — er, let’s go with “environmentally friendly” beer. Read about it here.

Some interesting beer packaging designs from The Dieline:

- Broken Bones (concept)
- Lucky Bucket (see number 7)
- Osjecko Pivo

And it looks like our old friends at Grizzly Peak in Ann Arbor, Michigan — Season 1, Episodes 13 & 14 — are getting into bottling (from LovelyPackage):

- Northern United Brewing (Grizzly Peak and North Peak)

North Peak, located in Traverse City, Michigan, will be featured in a pair of Travel by the Pint episodes later this season.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who, when hearing of the White House Beer Summit, wondered first “what beer will they have?” Today we have an answer, although I’m not sure the ink is dry on this one. According to the Wall Street Journal, Red Stripe and Blue Moon will be served to Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley, respectively, and it’s Bud Light for the President.

Oh, Mr. President…

I’m not sure what I would recommend he have, but I like the idea mentioned in the story of serving Equality Ale made by the Capitol City Brewing Company in DC (although I’ve never tried it). Any suggestions out there? Leave a comment.

Update: Was Red Stripe unavailable? CNN reports that Professor Gates ended up with a Samuel Adams Light while surprise guest VP Biden enjoyed a Buckler “near beer”. I’m beginning to think that they all should have gone with a Presidential IPA from our old friends at Diamond Bear Brewing.

More beer news — this time from the CBC website, “Off-beat beer producers fight for survival”.

Earlier this week, the BBC reported that UK pubs are closing at the rate of 52 per week.

In case you ever wished you could get beer-flavored popcorn, today’s your lucky day: Pub-Corn.

It’s almost here! Travel by the Pint will soon be launching Season One: A Taste of the Heartland. To give you some idea of what’s in store, we’ve put together this season preview clip. Click the image above to take a look.

Welcome to the Travel by the Pint blog where we will share news of the Travel by the Pint vidcast and other beer-related news and reviews. For more information, please visit our web site.

Season one of our vidcast will be launching soon so stay tuned. In the meantime, here’s a teaser: