#craftbeer, @BlackAcreBrewer

Oh man, this is great. I highly recommend clicking on the Under 21 link: http://blackacrebrewing.com/

#craftbeer, @nunuchocolates, BEER CHOCOLATES!

If and when you get a chance to sample Brooklyn-based Nunu Chocolates make sure you pick up the Beer Box. A six pack of chocolates with fantastic craft beer ganache like Stone’s Arrogant Bastard or the Lagunitas Undercover. The chococate is made on premise as well as the mixing of the beer to create the ganache. 

I ate the whole box in a day. So. Good.  

Some photos of Richard Brewer-Hay’s Elizabeth Street Brewery (@ESBale) in Noe Valley, San Francisco.

Yes, he has a pub in is garage. Every once and a while he’ll open up the pub to the public for a free pint of his World Beer Cup award winning brews. 

Port’s Bagby Featured At Toronado NYE #craftbeer, @lostabbey

Courtesy of All About Beer

(Photo Credit: All About Beer, Julie Johnson)

If you haven’t heard by now, here it is… GABF award winner and Port Brewing’s (@lostabbey) celebrity brewer, Jeff Bagby, is leaving Port Brewing to start his own brewery.  In celebration of such a momentousness occasion, the infamous Toronado (@toronado) will be replacing all of their taps (60) with his Port Brewing beers. Taking place on New Years Eve.

If I wasn’t frequenting the Lagunitas event in Big Sur I’d be over at the Toronado consuming these great beers. 

Congrats Jeff on your new adventure.

Beernerd’s Top Albums of 2011: Music to drink beer to.

James Blake
James Blake
Pair With: Dogfish Head - Bitches Brew
Dubstep producer and DJ James Black delivers one of the years’ most spectacular songwriter albums of the year, and it is his debut album. Go figure… Known for dropping big basslines and big pulses in his DJ sets and previously produced material, Blake’s debut hits the nail on the head with what sounds like a Motown record that’s been thrown through filters and a Juno 106. Sophisticated, graceful, lots of bass and well refined. Top notch!

Apparat
The Devil’s Walk
Pair With: Reissdorf Kölsch

Apparat’s Sascha Ring’s The Devil’s Walk is an emotional and warm journey through all the best parts of electronic music. Ring managed to create an uplifting and melancholic soundtrack from his makeshift studio in Sayulita in Mexico (mastered in Europe). By far one of my most favorite albums of 2011.

Gui Boratto
III
Pair With: Lagunitas IPA

Since the release of Brazilian DJ and producer Guilherme Boratto’s III, it hasn’t left my iPod. Classic Borrato style synths, kicks and song structure compliments his previous game changing albums: the 2007 release Chromophobia and the 2009 release Take Me Breath Away, both on Cologne’s seminal Kompakt label. It doesn’t surprise me that Boratto was nominated as one of the “Who’s the Greatest Dance Acts Of All Time” earlier this year by Mix Mag.

Bon Iver
Bon Iver
Pair With: Anderson Valley - Amber Ale

Recorded in the woods of Wisconsin, Justin Vernon’s minimal and introspective self-titled album hits you over the head like a hammer. Pitchfork finally got it right and gave his album a 9.5 (out of 10). Worth every $9.99 on iTunes.


Radiohead
The King of Limbs
Pair With: Russian River - Pliny The Elder

A lot of critics and fans downplayed this follow up to In Rainbows but, I felt The King of Limbs was a solid release from everyone’s beloved art-rock band. It is Radiohead. Enough said.

Goldie
Fabriclive 58
Pair With: Moonlight - Death & Taxes

16 some odd years later after releasing his pivotal Timeless on his Metalheadz label, Goldie returns with a mix that will for sure realize the sound of dubstep for the kids. Every track on this mix or so solid and just rip through your earbuds. “Each of these are standalone tunes. It is dynamic, it does take you from one extreme to the other, because for me that’s what my life is like,” states Goldie. I agree and that’s why I’ve had this on my iPod since its release.

5¢ Beer Day: 1930s “Repeal Day” Prohibition Party | SoMa

Buy online the Belgian beer gift Pack Westvleteren XII.


To finance the renovation project, the brothers of Westvleteren increased exceptionally over the past year the production of their famous Trappist Westvleteren 12. The result of their work will be offered once the general public, limited edition: a box “Pierre abbey” of Westvleteren XII containing six bottles and two tasting glasses.

Boston Beer Co.’s Jim Koch on Self Reliance

How the founder of America’s largest craft brewery faces challenges, stays connected and maintains long-standing success.

Dogfish Head Brewery Headquarters Showcase on Arch Daily

Founded in 1995, Dogfish Head creates some of this country’s most fascinating and adventurous craft beers.  After outgrowing its Rehoboth Brewpub, the company adopted a 104,000sf cannery in Milton, Delaware to house its brewing operations in 2002.  Recent production demands of the growing company required much-needed office, laboratory, and retail space, which offered an opportunity to reshape the image of the existing complex into one more attuned to the company’s progressive and “off-centered” culture. More

Soul Patrol:Tommy Guerrero

Here’s an article I did on former pro street skater Tommy Guerrero for WSTRNCV magazine, more