Founders Brewing updated its website over the weekend. You finally see a reference to some of the new beers like Founders Cerise. Another one they are debuting later in the year is Founders Nemesis, a brand that will take the form of different styles through the years (think ‘anniversary ale’). Because the beer will launch in December, little is known at the moment but watch this space.

Charlie Papazian has written a number of interesting posts on his blog as of late. First and foremost is a much-needed comprehensive (albeit brief) summary of some of the beer legislation we have been hearing about in recent weeks. He also wrote about bad weather that has crippled the German hop outlook. On the bright side, here in the States, folks can now grab tickets to the biggest beer party of the year, the Great American Beer Festival, held each year in Denver, Colorado. Papazian founded the event (unless I’m mistaken?) and still has a huge hand in it today. You can purchase tickets at the official website.

Going back to the hop crops and destruction of beer and beer ingredients, look no further than Belgium’s Drie Fonteinen. The Thirsty Pilgrim reports that, earlier this month, a broken thermostat raised the temperature to a level that effectively destroyed 100,000 bottles of lambic and geueze, or 1/3 of the brewery’s annual revenue. According to the DF’s U.S. importer, the Shelton Brothers, “Drie Fonteinen is the only remaining traditional geuze blender in Belgium, using only 100% spontaneously fermented lambic beer, aged in oak casks, with no artificial sweeteners or other additives.”

Lastly, Alaskan Brewing, like so many other breweries, is adding tanks to its current space. “The brewers have gone from turning out 1,500 barrels in 1987 to more than 100,000 barrels a year since 2005 – all on the same property.” You can catch the rest of the story via the Juneau Empire.