Beer

The Boston Beer Co. has a new release for summer: Porch Rocker, a radler-style beverage. Not familiar with the German radler? Well, another name for "radler" is "shandy. " Starting to make sense? Yes, it's what you fear: Porch Rocker tastes like a hybrid of beer and lemonade. And that's pretty much what it is: a pale beer mixed with some sort of lemon drink. It pours pale yellow with a soapy head and lots of carbonation bubbles. The aroma is all lemon, as though lemon Pledge had been sprayed generously into the glass.

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The Boston Beer Co. has a new mix pack for hopheads. Samuel Adams IPA Hop-ology Variety 12-Pack, a celebration of hops, contains two 12-ounce bottles each of the following six beers: Latitude 48 IPA (an India pale ale), Third Voyage (a double IPA), Dark Depths (a Baltic IPA), Tasman Red (a red IPA), Whitewater IPA (a hybrid of an IPA and a wibier), and a brand-new beer called Grumpy Monk, a Belgian IPA. The 12-pack will retail for about $16 and is already showing up in stores.

A needle stored with a beer can appeared to contain an extremely tiny amount of Roger Clemens' DNA, which turned out to be good news and bad news for both sides in the perjury trial of the seven-time Cy Young Award winner. A forensic scientist on Friday linked Clemens to cotton balls and a syringe needle saved from an alleged steroids injection 11 years ago. His testimony, laced with statistics and probabilities, was one of the last pieces of the government's case in its effort to prove that the pitcher lied to Congress in 2008 when he denied using performance-enhancing substances.

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Serves 10 20 bratwurst sausages (about 4 pounds) 2 medium yellow onions, 1 sliced and 1 chopped 2 cans (12 ounces each) of lager 20 sausage buns (optional) 1. In a large stockpot, place the bratwurst and the sliced onion. Cover the sausage and onion with lager. Bring to a vigorous boil. 2. Turn off the heat, cover the pot, and let steep for 15 minutes.

James Bond drinking a beer? It's true. Agent 007, known for preferring his martinis "shaken, not stirred," will suck on a beer in the new film "Skyfall. " Why? Because of a $45 million product placement deal with Heineken. Wait, what? The dapper, dashing spy with impeccable taste is going to drink a Heineken ? Not something a bit more sophisticated, like a Duvel? Or something more daring, like a Piraat? Or bolder, like a Chimay Bleu? Or hipper, like a Stone Arrogant Bastard?

Want a good laugh at the expense of Budweiser? Check out today's Monty comic strip:

Four-fifths of the Sox rotation makes an appearance in the video for country crooner Kevin Fowler 's new song. Pitchers Josh Beckett , Tim Wakefield , Clay Buchholz , and John Lackey all make cameos in the video for "Hell Yeah, I Like Beer," which is about Fowler's infatuation with a certain frosty beverage. ("Hell yeah, I like beer/It gets me grinnin' from ear to ear/Not just every now and then/I'm talking 365 days a year. ") In the video, the Sox players are standing on the warning track, in uniform, mouthing the words.

Cambridge Brewing Co. will host the official kickoff party for Boston Beer Week on Tuesday starting at 5 p.m. At the event, CBC will release a new beer called Mass Appeal -- a dry-hopped golden ale brewed with citrus zest and juice -- that was made in collaboration with four of Boston's newest breweries: Mystic Brewery , Enlightenment Ales , Idle Hands Craft Ales , and Night Shift Brewing . Beers from each...

Beer was hip in New York long before hipsters were into craft brews, according to a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society that traces the history of beer all the way back to drunken Colonial times. And it's not your typical staid museum display: There's even a bar at the end of it. "Beer Here," which opens Friday in New York City and runs through Sept. 2, aims to show that beer is steeped in the state's alcoholic history. From a manifest with beer orders for George Washington's troops to the diary of a 14-year-old hop picker, the exhibit...

By Colin A. Young Globe Correspondent A group of partiers in Boxford was sent out to pasture Sunday when a bunch of bovines decided to drop by and have a couple of brews. "It started off with a call for loose cows in the area of Foster Street," Boxford police Lieutenant James Riter said. "On my way down Main Street, I did see evidence that cows were in the area. " That evidence, Riter said, was — well, let's just say you wouldn't want to step in it. When the bovine bunch stopped in the frontyard of a home on Main Street, Riter...

Hoponius Union, made by Jack's Abby Brewing , has become my first-choice beer when I'm out at a pub. So imagine how happy the Framingham brewer made me when it recently began bottling this fine beverage. It's an innovative beer. Jack's Abby, a three-brother operation that launched last year and has carved a niche by focusing on lagers, calls Hoponius Union an "India pale lager. " Indeed, it tastes more like an India pale ale than a pale lager, which is what it is. That's because it's intensely hopped -- this beer measures 65 IBUs, bitter even by IPA standards.

Attacking key prosecution evidence, Roger Clemens' lawyer went through the items in a Miller Lite beer can one at a time and tried to cast doubt on the syringes and medical waste allegedly used to inject the famous pitcher with performance-enhancing drugs. Attorney Rusty Hardin expressed shock when Clemens's chief accuser Brian McNamee acknowledged that some of the items in the can had been used to inject other players. McNamee, Clemens' longtime strength coach, had testified he collected the materials after injecting Clemens with steroids.

The Boston Beer Co. has a new release for summer: Porch Rocker, a radler-style beverage. Not familiar with the German radler? Well, another name for "radler" is "shandy. " Starting to make sense? Yes, it's what you fear: Porch Rocker tastes like a hybrid of beer and lemonade. And that's pretty much what it is: a pale beer mixed with some sort of lemon drink. It pours pale yellow with a soapy head and lots of carbonation bubbles. The aroma is all lemon, as though lemon Pledge had been sprayed generously into the glass.

A few upcoming beer events for your calendar: Sel de la Terre Long Wharf hosts a craft beer dinner next Monday, Oct 24. The five-course meal will pair fine beer with fine food. Featured beers include Founders Centennial IPA, Rogue Dead Guy Ale, Geary's Hampshire Ale, and Unibroue Ephemere. The cost is $56 per person. The dinner starts at 7 p.m. Go to www.seldelaterre.com  for more information, a full menu , or reservations. Mass Audubon sponsors a "Birds and Brew" beer tasting at the Boston Nature Center on Friday, Nov. 4. The event -- will feature beers from Blue Hills,...

If you go out for a beer in a Boston-area bar or restaurant, chances are the beer list offers something made by Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project. The Somerville-based outfit is behind brews such as the cloudy, golden Jack D'Or, the dark ale Saint Botolph's Town, and the hoppy Fluffy White Rabbits. In the store, the bottles are easily spotted, adorned with fanciful, hand-drawn labels. Just a few years ago, Pretty Things was nothing more than a dream. Husband-wife team Dann Paquette and Martha Holley-Paquette brewed the first batch of Jack D'Or in 2008.

The Boston Beer Co. has a new mix pack for hopheads. Samuel Adams IPA Hop-ology Variety 12-Pack, a celebration of hops, contains two 12-ounce bottles each of the following six beers: Latitude 48 IPA (an India pale ale), Third Voyage (a double IPA), Dark Depths (a Baltic IPA), Tasman Red (a red IPA), Whitewater IPA (a hybrid of an IPA and a wibier), and a brand-new beer called Grumpy Monk, a Belgian IPA. The 12-pack will retail for about $16 and is already showing up in stores.