MdV: Merchant du Vin beer
e-newsletter –
Ayinger Oktober Fest-Marzen,
perennial gold-medal winner at the World Beer Championships, is appearing now
at your favorite pub, restaurant, and store.
The beer is deep and rich, and the festival commemorates an 1810
Bavarian royal wedding. More at:
http://www.merchantduvin.com/pages/1_about/Ayinger_Oktoberfest_Marzen.html
The Austin (TX) Statesman newspaper
featured wheat beers on August 19 . . . and called Ayinger Brau-Weisse “. . .
the showcase for the color, body, taste and aroma of Bavarian hefeweizen.”
That was indeed a bottle of Orval
Trappist Ale you saw pictured in the Tulsa (OK) World on August 15. It was being poured at the wildly successful
Wild Brew, the sixth-annual festival benefiting The Nature Conservancy.
Batgirl drinks Samuel Smith
Organic! A writer from the Atlanta
Constitution spotted visiting star Alicia
Silverstone purchasing this certified-organic beer this week, joining thousands
of other happy Georgia residents: In July, beers over 6% abv became legal in
this state, allowing many fine breweries from England, Germany, Belgium and the
US to sell their wares there.
Oktoberfests are coming – one list
is at: http://www.germanfoods.org/consumer/oktoberfests.cfm
There are festivals coming up in
http://www.merchantduvin.com/pages/1_about/news.html
For those of you who would like to
view previous e-newsletters, we have put an archive at:
http://www.merchantduvin.com/pages/1_about/enews_archive.html
Beer Chat from the
September is Organic Harvest Month,
and that may mean that your fine local store or restaurant will make it very easy
for you to buy organic beers – just look for the big store display, or special
feature on the menu board.
Organic food products have some of
the most brisk sales increases in the
To be
labeled “organic,” a beer sold in the
Organic beers naturally line up with
craft beer: most craft beers are made in smaller batches, at smaller breweries,
with more “on hand” activity. Organic beers
use hops and malt from farms that tend to be smaller and sometimes very local;
organic raw materials are far less likely to be commodity products: both brewer
and farmer deal personally, often with great pride and understanding of each
other’s commitment.
If you want to learn more about
organic products in general, the Organic Trade Association is a great place to
start:
The Agricultural Marketing Service
of the USDA also has information at:
www.ams.usda.gov/nop/indexIE.htm
Merchant