We’re not stat geeks around here with our web page, but once in awhile we like to check out who’s reading our blog and visiting the site. Things are picking up and folks around the world know about the humble storefront. The list is really quite interesting. Azerbaidjan? Brunei Darussalam? Malaysia? Really?

We love you, World!

United States 944.98 MB
Netherlands 3.52 MB
European country eu 3.49 MB
Australia 5.60 MB
Great Britain 3.96 MB
Hong Kong 431.06 KB
Brunei Darussalam 263.02 KB
Germany 1.05 MB
Switzerland 550.34 KB
Canada 3.25 MB
China 465.51 KB
France 642.46 KB
Brazil 276.96 KB
Japan 344.58 KB
Israel 84.86 KB
Portugal 63.34 KB
Egypt 78.42 KB
Malaysia 132.70 KB
Denmark 20.05 KB
Belgium 310.83 KB
Italy 354.73 KB
Sweden 757.44 KB
Spain 158.87 KB
South Korea 64.07 KB
Azerbaidjan 48.51 KB
India 94.99 KB
Chile 47.02 KB
El Salvador 34.68 KB
Russian Federation 29.28 KB
Norway 58.55 KB
Colombia 29.28 KB
Thailand 29.28 KB
Ireland 29.28 KB
Finland 29.28 KB
Lithuania 128.50 KB
Greece 29.28 KB
Austria 101.30 KB
Hungary 29.28 KB
South Africa 58.55 KB
Slovak Republic 29.28 KB

Thanks to a thread on BeerAdvocate, we can share this wonderful bit of information with you: A visual guide to just how much beer we Americans consume annually. Being that one-half of Bruisin’ Ales is visual and other analytical, this half wants to give you pictures. Glorious and beautiful pictures.

According to SloshSpot.com, Americans take in 50 billion pints a year. Also, all the beer consumed in the USA is equal to one can of beer for each American over the age of 21 every day all year long. (Except Sundays.) We can’t speak on the resources used to compile these, but nonetheless, we enjoy the visual perspective. It’s likely pretty close to reality. Another reader points to this list consumption by country on Wikipedia, which of course, is not official, but still interesting.

[Image: Sloshspot]

Man is suing Molson-Coors over iPint application for iPhone
Molson-Coors is being sued by Steve Sheraton and his company, Hottrix, for copyright infringement over the brewery’s development of an iPhone application called iPint for the beer Carling. Seems Sheraton developed the program first with iBeer, which “installs a virtual beer on the user’s iPhone, and uses the handset’s built-in accelerometer to mimic the motion of beer suds swilling around a pint glass. Users can also mimic drinking a beer by holding the iPhone to their mouth and tipping it back.” Sheraton is suing for $12.5 million in lost earnings. “Although iPint is no longer available in the US, after Mr. Sheraton’s company, Hottrix, sent a cease and desist letter to the application’s makers, it is still listed on the iTunes store in other countries.” Way to skirt those copyright laws, Molson-Coors! (Boo.) [Telegraph.co.uk]

There are so many things wrong with this we don’t know where to start
Read this article about the GABF. 1) Benjamin Franklin never said that. 2) There is no mention of Trappist Monks. 3) It’s Duvel, not Duval. Congrats on great research and editing. Grade: F. [AP.google.com]

Modelo not too happy with The Merger
Grupo Modelo has filed a notice of arbitration against A-B stating the pending merger of A-B and InBev “violate provisions of the investment agreement between Anheuser-Busch and Modelo.” The article goes on to say, “Anheuser-Busch has a non-controlling 50% stake in Modelo, which makes top U.S. import beer Corona Extra.” Whoop-si-daisy! Meanwhile, according to this, InBev claims that “unprecedented volatility” in capital markets has delayed its purchase. [CNNmoney.com]

Fuller’s launches “whisky-beer hybrid”
Oh, my. We love Fuller’s Vintage so, so much that this has our tastebuds salivating at 11:00 a.m. The English brewer is (finally) releasing its new project, Brewers Reserve—a series of brews released annually. Only 25,000 of the individually numbered and boxed beer will be made available by Fuller’s; the first batch is a “whisky-beer hybrid” aged in casks for more than 500 days. “We tried many different recipes. The one we selected has rich, tangy marmalade flavours along with vanilla notes from the oak and a wonderful hint of whisky.” Marmalade? Marmalade??  Wonder if this is going to make it to the States? [offlicensenews.co.uk]

Just kidding! Today is happy fun time at Bruisin’ Ales! Although, for the record, having a sip everytime McCain says “my friends” is not a good idea. Just so you know. Oh, and calling someone “that one” is a little cocky.

Tonight’s the night to meet Dominique Friart of St. Feuillien! We gotta admit it, we’re kinda geeked about meeting her. This is her final stop, following a night at the famed Brick Store Pub in Decatur, Ga. and an evening at the fairly new Trappeze and Athens, Ga. Don’t miss it! Limited seating is still available. Call Zambra at 232-1060. For all you haters, we know the economy sucks, but we challenge anyone who can go to Zambra and have three courses, three beers and get out of there spending $35, including tax and tip. And meet the owner of an old abbey! Treat yourself! Zambra supports beerlanthropy! Besides, it’s an absolutely sh*tty day outside. What else would you do?

Other stuff: Some of you have expressed difficulty with the Bruisin’ Blog. We don’t know what’s going on. We checked with Wordpress and they suggested we delete the post. So, we deleted the Brewgrass Wrap-up post, which seemed to be the culprit, so if you clean out your cache (or better yet, all your temp internet files), you should be all good.

Also, if you’re on Facecrackbook, please join the Bruisin’ Ales Group and the Bruisin’ Blog feed. And we just got on Twitter, too. So, basically, life is now completely unmanageable due to things that are supposed to make things easier.