Tell Me About Beer Events
What? There’s only one? Seriously?
The UK’s Daily Mail has a feature about Annabel Smith, the UK’s only female beer taster. “Annabel regularly sips up to 36 beers A DAY and has tried almost 26,000 samples of 3,000 different brews in three years in the job.” Holy cow. [The Daily Mail]
Pints to be £5 by the time of the London Olympics
Yikes. Not so pleasant. The exchange rate has been hovering at about 2-to-1, dollar to pound, which makes that about $10 for a pint of English ale. The new taxes are really affecting the English pubs and many think a mass closure is in the horizon. CAMRA not happy. ”Britain’s drinkers pay more in tax than almost anyone else in Europe, with the taxman receiving around 80 pence a pint.” [The Telegraph]
It’s beer week in Britain
CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival is this week. Beer expert, Melissa Cole, ranks her Top 10 Beers at the GBBF. [Times Online] Of note is that this is the first year American craft beers will be represented, though a program with the Brewers Association called the Export Development Program.
