February 2012
5 posts
Pliny the Younger Release 2012 Update!
Look like there’s still plenty of Younger on tap at RRBC. Read more here.
Electro Beer
I’ve been thinking about this for a while and I’m actually moving forward with doing it… So, this is number one in a series of electronic music producers and bands that are named after beers or name songs after beers.
No. 1: Kölsch
Kölsch
Prost! Danish electronic music producer Rune Riley over the last couple of years has been working under the pseudonym of Cologne, Germany’s...
Pack Westvleteren XII: Yikes, pricey!
For just the small fee of $320.00 you can get a Pack Westvleteren XII delivered to your door from the belgianshop.com… Or, you can wait until April when Westvleteren will release the same box in the States.
February is Craft Beer Overload in San Francisco
Seriously, this month is craft-beer overload with SF Beer Week starting on the 10th and then yesterday Magnolia and 21st Amendment and Social Kitchen kicked off Strong Beer Month.
I just found this list of Strong Beers to be featured and there are not enough days in the month of Feb to try all of them… Maybe we should have Strong Beer Year!
Magnolia Pub and Brewery: 1398 Haight (at...
Boston Beer Banned At NYC Bar For Superbowl
Now this is funny: http://draftmag.com/beereditor/boston-beer-banned/
January 2012
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#craftbeer, @BlackAcreBrewer
Oh man, this is great. I highly recommend clicking on the Under 21 link: http://blackacrebrewing.com/
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December 2011
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Port's Bagby Featured At Toronado NYE #craftbeer,...
(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...
Beernerd’s Top Albums of 2011: Music to drink beer...
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...
5¢ Beer Day: 1930s “Repeal Day” Prohibition Party... →
Buy online the Belgian beer gift Pack Westvleteren... →
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.
November 2011
8 posts
Dogfish Head Brewery Headquarters Showcase on Arch...
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...
Soul Patrol:Tommy Guerrero
Here’s an article I did on former pro street skater Tommy Guerrero for WSTRNCV magazine, more
City Beer Holiday Bottle Releases
Friday, November 11th: Drake’s Jolly Rodger Bottle Release, 4pm The folks at Drakes will be releasing their seasonal holiday ale; this year the elves brewed an Imperial Dark IPA for your drinking pleasure. You can taste the winter warmer on draft, pick up bottles to sip at home, and as an added bonus enjoy the experience of a firkin of Jolly Rodger. Tuesday, November 15th: Firestone...
Pliny the Younger is just over the horizon...
As per the Russian River Blog: “One quick thing about Pliny the Younger- we will be releasing it at the pub on February 3, 2012. It will be available for 14 days, no growlers, we are not bottling it, and it will be distributed in limited amounts as usual. I will provide more later as it gets closer, but that is all the information available right now! So no need to email us as we...
Lenseman: Jeff Flindt
An article I did for WSTRNCV Mag, more
Giant Killer: Lensman Jeff Flindt braves monster waves to fire the perfect barrel shot.
Baron Brewing, Three Skulls Ale and the Pillagers...
Baron Brewing, Three Skulls Ale and the Pillagers Pub, Seattle, Washington.
Just north of downtown Seattle is the neighborhood of Greenwood and the location of The Pillagers Pub, home to Baron Brewing and Three Skulls Ale. The owner, Jeff Smiley, started Baron Brewing back in 2003 after falling in love with German beer and home brewing. Smiley is a jovial man with a long salt-and-pepper goatee,...
Schooner Exact Brewing, Seattle, Washington
Inside the Schooner Exact Brewing Company, the scent of yeast permeates the air and large metal fermentation tanks stand guard against the back wall. Kegs upon kegs sit neatly stacked around the entrance of the warehouse. Over in the corner, near one of the sliding garage doors, sits a work-station for creating handmade tap handles. The space is generous for such an intimate brewery.
Schooner...
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Surf, Music and Australian Craft Beer at Stone &...
Way over in the Land of Oz, about 11 hours north of Sydney, in Byron Bay, the team at Stone & Wood Brewing Company subscribe to a pretty simple philosophy: craft beer, good music and surfing.
Back in 2008 the founders of Stone & Wood had been doing the big brewery thing when they decided they needed to change it up a bit: “to brew beer for times like these, beers that the locals, and the...
October 2011
3 posts
Patrick Swayze's 1979 PBR Ad, Like You've Never... →
Legends of Brewing!
A who’s who of brewing… How cool is this picture from the Russian River Brewing Co. Blog?
Great American Beer Festival 2011- Vinnie, Jack McAuliffe (New Albion), Chris and Cheryl Black (Falling Rock), Don Barkley (New Albion, Mendocino, and Napa Smith), Me, and Ken Grossman (Sierra Nevada). Pretty cool to have everyone in our booth at the same time!
August 2011
26 posts
#craftbeer: Speakeasy's 14th Anniversary...
Looking forward to Speakeasy’s 14th Anniversary tomorrow.
http://speakeasybutchertownhowdown-efbevent.eventbrite.com/
The Beernerd Beer Survey
I’m doing research for an article I’m writing. Would you please take the Beernerd Beer Survey? There are only three questions. It’s short. Plus, it’ll be fun.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LVVG26P
Exclusive: Don Barkley, The Interview Excerpts...
A couple of months back I had the honor, and opportunity, to interview brewing royalty Don Barkley (New Albion Brewing Company, Mendocino Brewing Company) of Napa Smith Brewery. I’m thinking every few weeks I’ll throw down an excerpt from our interview that I didn’t use in a soon-to-be published article in a not-to-be-named craft-beer magazine.
This Week: Crush Beer - Crush Beer...
New Zealand brewers to release 24 beers in 24...
A couple of guys in Wellington, New Zealand have set up a super micro brewery inside an old Shell service station and they’re planning to release 24 one-off released beers within a 24-week window. This is straight up nuts. I’m going to follow these guys on Twitter.
Here’s the full story from an article on stuff.co.uk:
Pint-sized brewery set challenge
The new guys on...
Drink more local craft-beers... Down with...
I have to agree with Tom Philpott, food and ag blogger for Mother Jones, when commenting on the intense corporatization of beer in his article, Beer Charts of the Day: “Anheuser-Busch, InBev and SABMiller produce 80 percent of the beer consumed here [USA]. That’s four of every five brews. And almost all of them suck!” And then he adds, “What all of this is telling me is...
Fink: Music to drink beer to.
Recorded and mixed by producer Billy Bush ‘Perfect Darkness’ is a smouldering, pulsating, and purposeful book of songs. From its emotion-rousing, self-titled opener, to the darkly cinematic ‘Fear Is Like Fire,’ and the uplifting nostalgia of album closer ‘Berlin Sunrise’, the ‘Perfect Darkness LP’ bristles with tense passion and hypnotic charm. It is in two words, bewitching and addictive.
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American "craft" brews are revealed as the UK's...
“…sales of premium lagers imported from the US have increased by 150% over the past year as they are rolled out in the UK’s pubs and clubs.”
This doesn’t surprise me as most of the beer in the UK is just not that great. It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out and what other crafty American Beers (Stone, Russian River) eventually make it over the pond....
A History In Images: The Budweiser Can
While I’m not a huge fan or consumer of Budweiser, you have to admit that the label and the brand is quintessential Americana at its finest. Anheuser Busch and the London agency JKR redesigned the label and this week they’re launching the new design. It’s quite hideous, I might add.
Read the full story….
Pirate Beer!
A brewer in New Zealand is inspired by a 1773 recipe used by Captain Cook.
Read the full story of Tony Dapson’s Manuka Magic Pirate Beer here
Microloans for Brewers
This is such a cool idea. This is the future of brewing in this country and it should spark really creative ideas from microbrewers. The next thing that would be great is a class on how to get your beers approved for distribution.
Sam Adams Serves Up $100,000 in Microloans and Advice to Craft Beer Entrepreneurs
Lending partner ACCION USA works with Samuel Adams to help craft brewers ...
Plaid: Music to drink beer to.
One of my favorite all-time electronic music bands, Plaid, have a new album forthcoming on Warp Records in September.
Who in the hell are Plaid you might ask? Well, Plaid are Andy Turner and Ed Handley formerly of Black Dog Productions and numerous other projects. Over the years they’ve collaborated with many producers and vocalists including Red Snapper, Bjork and Alison Goldfrapp,...
Surf Photgrapher: Jeff Flindt Interview
There’s more to like than drinking beer: Surfing… Here’s an interview I did with Surf Photographer Jeff Flindt for WSTRNCV Magazine. Starts on page 248.
International Beer Day!
I’m going to have a cup of tea in celebration of International Beer Day.
Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Dodgy Porter
I’ve been reading this guys blog for quite some time now. He’s seriously has the life as he travels from one European country to the next drinking beers in fantastic locals and breweries and festivals and all kinds of crazy places. He’s pretty geeky with the numbers too.
Check out his latest post: Dodgy Porter
Road trip to Antwerp for some beers?
Stone's Quingenti Millilitre Series
The beers coming out of Stone Brewing are fantastic. The coconut porter coming out of Maui Brew Co is fantastic. That collaberation beer Ken Schmidt’s did for Stone way back when was awesome. I bet this will be pretty damn good too…
I wish I still lived in San Diego so I could enter into this drawing.
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New Beer Label Day
#craftbeer: These posts on Beer News are always sort of fun for me… Maybe it’s because I’m a beer dork.
The "LBC" Welcomes First Craft Beer Festival...
What do you think about when somebody says: Long Beach…? That’s right, bitches: BEER!
“A refreshingly classy approach to beer tasting, Taste of Brews pays homage to the passion and excitement that today’s full-flavored craft beers are generating among consumers while providing an exciting platform to introduce new styles. Many of the most popular craft beers like Shock...
"Drink Up, California! Beer Tasting Rules Eased"...
I just pulled this from NBC LA:
“Call it a coincidence if you like. On the same day the House passed the debt ceiling deal, there is new cause for celebration — and drinking — in California.
Small craft beer brewers won exemption Monday from expensive food safety rules that have to be followed by restaurants. It’s the same exemption now enjoyed by winery tasting...
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International IPA Day (8.4.11) #IPADay #craftbeer
Don’t forget to drink copious amounts of IPA this Thursday for we will be celebrating International IPA Day.
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