Recent content by Shaudius

While it is true that PET bottles contain benzene, they won't leech the chemical until they start to break down from wear and tear. Basically its a shelf life of the product issue. I wouldn't recommend using the same PET bottle for years and years and years, but it will take awhile for a PET...

I'm not particular aware of any resources outside of news articles and DoJ investigations for the information provided in the movie regarding some of the practices, and you're right to not take something at face value just because its in a movie. As far as I am aware, however, it is without...

Having to go to specific shops to buy a product category that is widely available in all shops of that type by other makers is hardly what I would call easily. Again, my argument is not that craft beer has not been available for decades, my argument is precisely what you brush off in your second...

The reason that it doesn't hold weight isn't because its not true or the experience of people. The reason it doesn't hold weight is because unless your experience was in a the store that had a large selection of non-BMC and was a large store then its not directly applicable. My argument, again...

My argument is not that some craft beer hasn't been available in some stores for a long time and hasn't been in some bars for a long time. My argument is that MOST stores, did not sell large selection/have a large portion of their space dedicated to craft beer as recently as half a decade ago...

The key to all of this is your last two words, "these days."(which you also say earlier in your post). Beer Wars was released in April of 2009 and filmed in 2008. While that may not seem like a long time, the craft beer explosion is a fairly recent phenomena, at least on store shelves. I spent...

While I agree with the sentiment of letting people drink what they want, and I don't begrudge BMC drinkers, I think that the underlying premise of "Beer Wars" wasn't that BMC is crap or that BMC made it because it was cheap or easy, but instead that they operate as monopolies and stifle people...

So I'm pretty new at this. I started brewing an irish red ale on Saturday. My bucket lid isn't tight and being new I can't resist looking. When I checked it on Monday my beer had a brownish white foam on top of it which I presume was krausen, that dropped and now is on the sides of the top of...

Its a shame the OP missed this deal: http://www.northernbrewer.com/cyber-monday-promo $79 for a 5 gallon stainless kettle, decent ingredient kit and a kit with an auto-siphon and star san(instead of the usual stuff in the lesser kits) is a pretty amazing deal. But there's an equally good...