Move over cans and bottles, the future of beer is here. Well, maybe not the future, but a damn cool looking beer sampling unit: the BeerVault. There seems to be some high-tech science behind the newest creation from Australian design firm Jones Chijoff.
The BeerVault fits the high-end beer bottles into UV-filtering clear acrylic canisters, which are backlit and suspended above the bar. Each beer is kept under the same pressure as it was while in the bottle, thus preserving its taste, while also keeping it chilled and ready-to-serve via a clear volume of liquid glycol that surrounds it and circulates through a chiller.
It also makes ordering beers easier. One of the ideas behind the whole bar is that people will be able to order their beers based on the color!
BornRich — Australian firm designs BeerVault for high-end beers
Someone get 
The Huffington Post has a pretty stock list up today about the world’s best beer cities. Gotta love these features from HuffPo that clearly try to just get reads for having “beer” or 
Probably, 
The Washington Post has a nice quick read about one of the true founding fathers of the craft beer movement, Jack McAuliffe. McAuliffe started his own brewery in 1976 in an effort to recreate the beers he tasted in Scotland while stationed there in the Navy. However, as often was the case with microbreweries pre-1980, McAuliffe’s brewery closed. But enter 
I’ve seen the Jack and Ken’s Black Barleywine out in stores recently and I’ve scoffed at the higher price and the lack of the memory I have from tasting the 
*If you’re into reading just the headline of a story, that is. See, a group called 
It is no secret that the craft beer section at the supermarket is filled with beers from the major brewers: MillerCoors and ABinbev. Many of the staples you see at parties during the summer such as Leinenkugel and Blue Moon are all brewed by MillerCoors. Their popularity has led MillerCoors to launch a new Craft Beer and Import division, Tenth and Blake Beer Co.
What an observation. Who knew that people cared about what kind of beer they were drinking? I believe this switch has much more to do with how the beer will be marketed and is an attempt to separate their craft beers from Miller and Coors brand. But I also wonder if a beer in such large scale production as the Blue Moon products is really “craft beer.”
In yesterday’s Atlantic, 
Except for the fact that, you know, homebrewing almost always leads to the best microbreweries, much as reader Tom Hilton notes above. I was set to write a lengthy counterargument about why Hilton wasn’t much brighter than a stick, but sadly, Erik Kain responded before I got to, and essentially hammers my point home.
Showed up to a pleasant surprise when I showed up at the local taproom today. The return of the Lightfoot Pilsner was augmented by a first ever Rye PA. It is essentially their single malt IPA with 5% of the malt replaced by rye.
