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Friday Financials: The Memorial Weekend BBQ edition

By Molly Priesmeyer | 05.23.08 | 12:24 pm

It’s officially the first weekend of summer. And for many that means get-togethers, beer, noisy neighbors, beer, DIY BBQs and OMG ROFL.

Ah, BBQs. They ain’t what they used to be. Cheap beer and brats are so…

As planet warms, quenching thirst might get tougher

By Dan Haugen | 04.08.08 | 11:37 am


As a rookie home brewer, I wasn’t happy to see this headline from MSNBC: “Beer lovers beware of global warming; Growing malting barley is gonna get tougher, expert warns.” Regional droughts and flooding have already…