1) Upcoming Promotions! 2) Cooking With Beer 3) Brew News 4) Openings and Closings 5) Events and Festivals *********************************************************** Coming Promotions: Snellville - Fri, Jan 22nd Grolsch Glass Night 7:00 - 9:00 pm Drink a Grolsch and keep the glass While supplies last Fri, Jan 29th Bacardi and Bacardi Limon Promo 7:00 - 9:00 pm Lots of giveaways. . . shirts, koozies, etc While supplies last Sandy Springs - Thurs, Jan 21st Grolsch Glass Night 7:00 - 9:00 pm Drink a Grolsch and keep the glass While supplies last *********************************************************** Cooking With Beer Beer Batter Extraordinaire 3/4 cup flour 1/4 cup cornmeal 2 tsps baking powder 1 tsp salt 1/4 tsp finely ground black pepper 1 large egg, beaten 1/4 tsp liquid smoke 1 cup Kolsch or American Wheat beer, ice cold oil for frying (preferably corn oil) 1. In a large bowl, stir together flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt and pepper 2. In a separate bowl, stir together egg, liquid smoke, and beer. Stir into the flour mixture and whisk briefly, bot do not overmix. In the frying pan begin heating oil to 365 degrees. 3. Pat dry the ingredients to be fried and dust them lightly with the flour immediately before dipping into the batter and frying. This batter works best with shrimp, onion rings, mushrooms, firm fish and thin slices of firm veggies such as eggplant and zucchini. Batter is best when used immediately after preparation Recipe from Beer For Dummies, IDG Books Worldwide *********************************************************** Beer Quote " Those who drink beer will think beer" -Washington Irving and William Warburton (1698 - 1779) *********************************************************** Brew News Could it be a merger? Boston Beer Company's stock shares rose after speculation by Bloomberg News that Anheuser-Busch and the Boston Beer Company are talking about the possibility of a sale. Spokesmen for both companies both said that their companies had no comment. The Bud Bowl '99 will hit the Internet! The "Bud Bowl '99" will be contested on the World Wide Web, Superbowl Sunday, January 31st. This will be "the first website to be developed exclusively to support a national beer promotion". http://www.Budbowl.com/ What were the biggest imports for '98 ? 1. Corona Extra - Mexico, 55 mill cases 2. Heineken - Holland - 42 mill cases 3. Labatt Blue - Canada 10.9 mill cases 4. Molson Ice - Canada 9.5 mill cases 5. Guinness Stout - Ireland 8.4 mill cases 6. Foster's Lager - Australia 8.2 mill cases 7. Beck's - Germany 8 mill cases 8. Tecate - Mexico 7.4 mill cases 9. Bass Ale - england 7 mill cases 10. Amstel Light - Holland 6.1 mill cases Of course, all of the above are available at Taco Mac ! *********************************************************** Openings and Closings Openings - Burntstone Brewhouse Athens, Ga Power Plant Restaurant Brewery Parkville, MD Zymers Grill & Brewery Leawood, KS The Eldo Brewery and Taproom Crested Butte, CO Moon Ales (micro) Seattle, WA Widbey Island Brewing Co (micro) Clinton, WA Maxwell's Brewery & Pub Port Townsend, WA Closings - Oxford Brewing Co Glen Burnie, MD Breckenridge Brewery Birmingham, AL Laughing Pines Brewery Slidell , LA Tulsa Brewing Co Tulsa, OK *********************************************************** Events and Festivals The 1999 Southeastern Microbrewer's Invitational and Conference Carol Stoudt, one of the first women brewmasters in the craft brewing revolution, will present a keynote address. Conference will be held April 23 - 24 at the Durham Marriott in the Civic Center in Durham, NC Contact Tyrone Irby, 919-484-1128 (we are proud to remind you all that Carol Stoudt's handprints are on display on Taco Mac's "Wall of Brewing Fame") Eurobiere 99, the international beer and beverages show, will be held April 24-28 at the Strasbourg Exhibition Ground in Strasbourg, France. Contact Catherine Lacoste 00 33 (0) 3 88 37 21 23 Feb 11-14 Fredericksburg, VA 20th Annual Blue Gray Brewerania Show March 7-14 Pasadena , CA Southern Calif Barley Wine Festival April 10 Athens, GA 4th Annual Classic City Brew-Fest. Classic Center. Benefits AIDS Coalition of Northeastern Georgia. Contact Owen Ogletree 706.254.2739 *********************************************************** Don't forget to make your plans for SUPERBOWL SUNDAY '99 We will have plenty of great wings and lots of team spirit!