Hope everyone had a beertastic Labor Day weekend!

Since it usually takes a day or so to get back into the swing of things, we give you these little gems of beer can art for your visual amusement made from Anadolu Efes Pilsner, a Turkish pilsner, which we sell in bottles. [Source/Image: Yousaytoo.com]

In other news, we got an e-mail today from Jack over at the Stella Artois Blog, saying that the brand is unveiling a new “cinematic website” on September 18:

… You will take to the misty streets on an adventure formidablé. Encountering an eclectic host of characters and challenges along the way, will you risk thwarting the gods of thunder in 1336—or take on the 9-step pouring ritual to produce the perfect virtual chalice of Stella Artois? …

We don’t know, Jack. We just don’t know.

From the Citizen-Times today: Beer, opera mix in Knoxville Opera’s opener.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Beer and opera seem like an unlikely fit, but the Knoxville Opera is kicking off its 30th anniversary season with them both.

Oktoberfest! features highlights from Sigmund Romberg’s beloved operetta “The Student Prince” at 6 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Foundry on the Fair Site in Knoxville. Guests will enjoy a German buffet with unlimited beer and wine as they journey back to Old Heidelberg.

Participants will be part of the action, banking steins to the rousing “Drinking Song” and humming along to such timeless classics as “Deep in My Heart,” “Golden Days” and “Overhead the Moon is Beaming.”

The show stars the young tenor Ta’u Pupu’a from Tonga, a former NFL football player with the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Ravens. Tickets are $100 per person, and reservations must be made by Oct. 1.

For tickets and more, call 865-524-0795 or visit www.knoxvilleopera..com.

 

 

 

 

 

Some art and design student in the UK built a Ford Mustang out of beer cans as part of a promo for Budweiser.
Source/Image: NewCarNetCo.uk 

The Brewers Association’s Export Development Program, which recently sent US craft beer to China, has now sent more to Europe. Sweden is the largest export market for US craft beer. Who knew?
Source: Beertown.org

A graduate student at the University of Colorado sent a fermentation kit into orbit on the space shuttle a few years back and it worked!
Source: NewScientistSpace

Did you know it’s the US Treasury that controls alcohol labeling and not the Food and Drug Adminstration? Yeah, we didn’t either. Anyway, they’re aiming to mandate standards of labeling within three years.
Source: USAToday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now that two of our friends have e-mailed us this beauty of a photo, we take that as a sign that we should pass the zen on to you, dear reader. (In case you can’t see it clearly the building reads “The Beer Store.”)