Dallas Stampede Light Beer... wait for it... PLUS!

Someone else is using the Vitamin Beer™ idea, but not my special name for it. Stampede Brewing Company from Dallas, Texas is brewing Dallas Stampede Light Plus (the Plus means vitamins!) with the help of Jessica Simpson, who now owns 15% of the brewery. Kind of weird and kind of sad.

According to Stampede's website, their beer is made from "pure mountain spring water" (from the Texas mountains?) and infused with "smoked, white oak chips" but they don't list what vitamins are in there.

My Vitamin Beer™ will be chock-full of vitamins and they'll be proudly listed right on the bottle.

From the LA Times: Jessica Simpson pushes new vitamin-spiked beer!

New Schlitz beer now available on tap

From JSOnline, the new "classic formula" Schlitz beer is now available in draft. Maybe I'll get a keg.

Pabst Brewing Co., which owns the Schlitz brand, has begun distributing the brand's "Classic 60s formula" in kegs to taverns in Milwaukee and other areas in an effort to meet demand for the beer. The demand for Schlitz in bottles has outpaced production, which is done under contract at a MillerCoors LLC brewery in Eden, N.C.

Compared with the Schlitz sold in cans, the reformulated Schlitz in bottles has a more full-bodied taste. Schlitz has not been served as draft since 1999.

Remove Push to Talk (PTT) from your AT&T BlackBerry

Here’s how to remove the Push-to-Talk (PTT) application from your AT&T BlackBerry if you don't use it (just one less application that needs to be open on your phone):

1. Download javaloader.exe from somewhere by searching Google for it and save it to your c:\temp folder.

2. Open a DOS prompt (Start > Run > cmd) and attach your BlackBerry to your computer with a USB cable.

3. Run the following commands, one at a time. Your device will reboot after each command.

c:\temp\javaloader.exe -usb erase -f net_rim_bb_phone_ptt_app.cod
c:\temp\javaloader.exe -usb erase -f KnJCDE.cod

The King of Beers - Boston Beer Company

With Budweiser's acquisition by Belgian-based InBev, Boston Beer Company is now the country's largest, independent, publicly-traded brewery. But even with this new status, the maker of Sam Adams beer has less than 1% market share in the United States.

Fortune Magazine has an interview with Boston Beer CEO Jim Koch.

They also have a great interactive beer guide that shows which company makes which beers - 99 bottles in all.

Miller Light Craft Beers Dumped

From JSonline.com - MillerCoors is dropping plans for the Miller Lite Brewers Collection, three spinoffs of Miller Lite that tried to emulate craft beers.

I never got to try them. Oh well. Now girls everywhere can keep drinking beer without any taste.

Sleep well, sweet prince

From JSOnline, regarding Heather's favorite holiday-themed spiced malt beverage:

Leinenkugel drops Apple Spice, adds Nut

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co. is dropping its Apple Spice seasonal brand and replacing it with Leinenkugel's Fireside Nut Brown Lager, it was announced today.

The new holiday seasonal beer will be sold during November and December. The Chippewa Falls-based brewer says it will be "the perfect complement for holiday foods such as glazed hams, roasts, gravies, pies and pastries."

Apple Spice, which had been Leinenkugel's winter seasonal beer, is being dropped. Apple Spice had good sales, but its growth is currently limited by production costs and ingredient availability, a company spokeswoman said.