Bruisin’ Ales hits #7 on The Beer Wench’s “Top 20 Beer Personalites on Twitter”
Who’s got two thumbs and ranked on this list? We want to give a shout to our girl, and lil’ sis, The Beer Wench (@TheBeerWench), for taking the time to put together this fantabulous list of the “most compelling” beer people on Twitter. And we’re honored to be ranked #7 in her book! If you’re not already, these are the people to be following for the best of beer. And other stupid funny stuff, because beer people are funny. Often intoxicated.

Edgy’s got a new seasonal beer story in the MountainXPress
Share your opinions and thoughts about Asheville’s seasonal brews, Highland Cold Mountain, French Broad Wee-Heavy-est, and the brand-spanking-new Asheville Brewing Christmas Jam Ale. (There’s also Pisgah’s Baptista, which beer spies tell me was bottled yesterday.) I like this quote about Cold Mountain: “The spices are a closely guarded secret. I have had people ask me how we get the marshmallows or the cherries in there. I can assure you we do not use either. What I can tell you is there are some very obvious flavors going on in this beer, some new and some old. We’ll let you be the judge.”

PBR is up for sale
Got a cool $3 million just lying around? You could buy PBR! Seems the hipster beer favorite is in trouble with a little agency called the IRS. You’d think a “marketing company” would know enough that a non-profit can’t own a for-profit beer company. For three years. After a warning. Oh, well. Learning curves.

Get your beer geek AND designer geek on
Brilliant post from Typophile which makes me truly giddy inside with a giant *kaboom* of my two worlds colliding. Enjoy: The Best Typographic Beer Labels.

And in the Halloween wrap-up…
If you are going to dress as a breathalyzer for Halloween, then don’t drink and drive. Or be underage. People are stupid.

Macro beer sales are up
Remember a few months ago when the mainstream media went batshit crazy and jumped on a story about a 30-35% increase in beer, and “how dare they do that in these tough economic times?” Yeah, well, it’s like we said then, it happens every year and won’t affect anything. And it didn’t.