Archive for December, 2009

2009 Oakes Awards

The year of 2009 was officially my biggest in far of tracking down new beers. I’ve never really been that prolific as a beer-ticker, mostly only as a finely-honed beer hunting machine capable of uncovering entire new beer scenes for the world (Lithuania in a joint effort, Central Asia solo) But you certainly [...]

Holiday in Cambodia redux

I believe I first learned about Cambodia having brewpubs from Fal Allen’s blog, which of course I read through in the course of my SE Asia research. I was intrigued. Five years ago I was through Cambodia and quite frankly I didn’t think much of it. Phnom Penh in particular really [...]

Southern Vietnam

When we last left off in Vietnam I was leaving Hanoi. Wow. That was a long time ago, actually. Better get everybody caught up. Vietnam’s beer scene is largely based on trade links with the Czech Republic and Germany. Those governments have helped with the equipment of set-up of giant [...]

The FDA steps in it

So the FDA has got its knickers in a knot about beer with caffeine in it. See the post here and the article here:
Apparently, the whole thing got started when they decided to take umbrage with caffeinated alcopops. Naturally, they’ve felt the need to pick on craft brewers as well. [...]