A CURIOUS MIX OF BRITISH FOLK MUSIC AND AMERICAN POLITICS
Scottish beer-makers BrewDog are thanking fans who have helped to raise £19million by sending them a bottle of the world’s strongest beer wrapped in taxidermy road kill.
Read the Full Story: BrewDog serves world’s strongest beer out of dead squirrels | The Independent
Trough the winding hallways of the centuries-old University of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium, past the sterile black counters in biological laboratories, buried in the depths of freezers, and suspended in cryogenic slumber, there sleeps a creature feared by the masses.
Through the winding hallways of the centuries-old University of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium, past the sterile black counters in biological laboratories, buried in the depths of freezers, and suspended in cryogenic slumber, there sleeps a creature feared by the masses.
It’s small — microscopic, in fact — but it packs a punch. The creature is barred from entering certain laboratories in the United States to safeguard against contamination. It’s feared by the general public as an abomination of nature, an organism whose critics say it was created by the hands of man playing god. The creature is the target of lobbyists and NGOs that would like nothing more than for it to be destroyed. But, is this creature — actually a manmade strain of yeast, a single-celled organism humans have been cultivating for at least 7,000 years — just misunderstood?
READ FULL STORY at the Surce: Is This Man the Dr. Frankenstein of Beer? – Eater
Johnny Foreigner nicked this from NME. Portland singer-songwriter Alexandra Savior talks business at The Lord Nelson pub, but doesn’t drink much of her pint.
Alexandra Savior, the 21-year-old musician from Portland, Oregon, worked on her new album with Alex Turner from The Arctic Bloody Monkeys. So she’s clearly pretty damn special, as viewers of the show True Detective discovered when a demo of her song ‘Risk’ appeared on its soundtrack last summer. It’s eerily beautiful. The rising singer recently sold out The Courtyard in London with an amazing show and, listening to tracks such as ‘Shades’ and ‘M.T.M.E’, you can see why. Her brand of psychedelic noir-pop marks her as a talent with a knack for an off-kilter hook.
Here, then, over a swift pint (which she didn’t seem that into, truth be told) down NME‘s local, The Lord Nelson in Southwark, Savior talks about her hometown, working with a bonafide rock star and the prospect of burgeoning fame. (…)
Which is fine…But I looked around: the entire place was filled with people sitting there with five small glasses in front of them, filled with different beers, taking notes.”This is not a bar. This is f—ing Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This is wrong. This is not what a bar is about.”He added that the entire point of a bar is to “get a little bit buzzed” and not “sit there f—ing analyzing beer.”
READ FULL STORY at Source: Anthony Bourdain: craft beer is turning people into zombies