This article is in the summer issue of the CAMRA Newsletter. Steve joined CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) to ensure that we don't miss out on tickets to the Great Canadian Beer Festival which will be held here for the 10th year in a row this November. CAMRA members are able to make an advance purchase and last year the tickets all sold out before we could get any. We make our own all grain brews (I know what ya'll are thinking!!! Steve is only a low-carber by association.) and quite enjoy the newsletters.

"Anheuser-Busch rolls out Michelob Ultra in September, a light beer to join those beverage products designed to appeal to a more health-concious consumer.
Test marketed since last December, Ultra, a low-carb, high-protein beer has 2.9 grams of carbs and only 96 calories per 12-oz serving. These levels are comparable to the carbohydrates and calories in most light beers, but A-B to specifically advertise the carbohydrate number."

In the same issue, of interest to my friends across the pond in Great Britain,

"Green King from Bury St. Edmunds in East Anglia is selling a Jubilee beer that is undrinkable. Last year the company discovered a cache of around 500 bottles of beer brewed in 1952 to celebrate the Queens Coronation in the network of old cellars at the 200 year-old Greene king Brewery. These bottles were immediately earmarked to be twinned with Jubilation Ale, the beer being produced to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee. A limited number of presentation boxes containing the historic ale and Jubilation Ale are on sale at the Brewery's museum in Bury St. Edmunds for $35.00 each. Although the 50-year-old brew is not suitable for drinking, experts in Greene Kings labs analyzed the Coronation Ale and discovered it had an ABV of 6.5%. The beer is one of the Kentish hop varieties popular in the 1950's Fuggles, English Goldings or Bramling Cross and the barley malt was probably Spratt Archer."

Cheers!