Now that Oskar Blues (Lyon, CO) has the ability to produce 16oz cans (see Deviant Dales) the brewery is looking to add G’Knight to the tallboy lineup. G’Knight went by the name “Gordon” until Gordon Biersch sued to the Continue Reading →
Attention Home Brewers! It is time to get prepared for the Southern Brewer’s Challenge! In honor of National Home Brewing Month, please read the following announcement. This is your chance to enter a pro-am competition to have your recipe made Continue Reading →
Last season, West Virginia University added beer sales in the stadium during their football games. So how did they do? Concessions netted $744,082. Add in beer, the total jumps to $1.26 million dollars.
To celebrate the opening of Brewdog’s newest location – Brewdog Manchester (United Kingdom.) This is the brewery’s 7th location, boasting 14 draft handles, great food, and a beautiful setting. To mark the occasion, the brewery is offering a “Crap Beer Amnesty,” Continue Reading →
A video of brew day for the 2012 Fort Collins Collusion brew 2012. The beer – brewed with honey & Colorado snow, is a collab between Equinox, Fort Collins, Pateros Creek, Crooked Stave, New Belgium, Coopersmith’s, Odell, & CB Potts. Continue Reading →
Yesterday, Shelton Brothers issued a response to the tax situation in New York. Recently the state’s supreme court recently declared unconstitutional two state tax exemptions that benefited small breweries. That means the consumer pint price could increase. At the source Continue Reading →
Now that Oskar Blues (Lyon, CO) has the ability to produce 16oz cans (see Deviant Dales) the brewery is looking to add G’Knight to the tallboy lineup. G’Knight went by the name “Gordon” until Gordon Biersch sued to the brewery over the name.
Gordon is a dry-hopped hybrid strong ale somewhere between a Double IPA and and Imperial Amber Ale (IAA). Brewed in tribute to the late Gordon Knight, Gordon is brewed with massive amounts of American hops and features about 85 IBUs and 8.7% alcohol by volume.
Red Brick Brewing & Taco Mac Hold Pro-Am Brewing Competition
Attention Home Brewers! It is time to get prepared for the Southern Brewer’s Challenge! In honor of National Home Brewing Month, please read the following announcement. This is your chance to enter a pro-am competition to have your recipe made by a commercial brewery, and sold at restaurants across the southeast. Here is how it works:
Taco Mac and Red Brick Brewing Co. have partnered up to help make one lucky home brewer’s dream come true. We will be receiving submissions throughout the month of July at specific Atlanta-area Taco Mac locations. Dates and locations will be listed below. Our judging panels, made up of representatives from Taco Mac and Red Brick, along with other Atlanta-area beer luminaries, will judge the submissions throughout the month of August. Once the winner has been announced, the brewery will take some time to fine tune the recipe to their brew system’s specifications. Once a final recipe is reached, the beer will go into production. The release date will be targeted for the very first opportunity in January, 2013.
Once the beer is available for sale at all area Taco Mac locations, the brewery will go back to work on another batch. This next batch will be bottled for a targeted launch in the spring of 2013. In fact, the release of the bottles (to be sold at area off-premise retail stores) will coincide with the announcement of the 2013 Southern Brewer’s Challenge. If this program is as successful as we expect, we will continue to do this every year.
The submissions will be at the following locations on the specified dates:
Monday, July 2nd at Taco Mac in Cumming and Peachtree City
Monday, July 9th at Taco Mac in Kennesaw and Buford
Monday, July 16th at Taco Mac at Prado and Metropolis
Monday, July 23rd at Taco Mac in Duluth and Crabapple
Monday, July 30th at Taco Mac at Windward Pkwy and Decatur
When planning out what you are going to submit, here are some things to think about:
No more than two styles per brewer.
The winning beer needs to be produced in a large quantity, so choose ingredients that are readily available.
Red Brick brews mostly ales, and in the interest of not tying up their equipment with a lengthy lagering process, ale styles would be preferred.
All submissions must have an accompanying info sheet, which will be provided at a later date. In addition, all submissions must be in the form of two bottles of twelve ounces each. No big bottles, no growlers, etc. Lastly, the submissions need to be received at the stores specified, on the dates specified, and between 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm. There will be someone on site to receive the samples during those times, which will prevent loss, breakage, or anything else that would prevent samples from getting to the tasting panel in tact. If you miss the submission date, you must choose a different location to drop off your beer. If you leave it at a location before or after the submission date and time, it will not get into the judging process.
Last season, West Virginia University added beer sales in the stadium during their football games. So how did they do? Concessions netted $744,082. Add in beer, the total jumps to $1.26 million dollars.
Arrests were down too. (Including underage/open container arrests.) The arrests were lower for entire season, than the # of arrests at the LSU/Alabama game (149).
“I think it worked,” said WVU Police Chief Bob Roberts, who supported Luck’s multipronged plan to reduce binge drinking and bad behavior by selling beer at Mountaineer Field for the first time and ending a long-standing practice of letting fans leave during the game.
Binge drinking down, fans more civil, and a half a mil for the university. Win/win?
To celebrate the opening of Brewdog’s newest location – Brewdog Manchester (United Kingdom.) This is the brewery’s 7th location, boasting 14 draft handles, great food, and a beautiful setting. To mark the occasion, the brewery is offering a “Crap Beer Amnesty,” where an individual can bring in mainstream lager in exchange for craft beers.
Brewdog says they will recycle the bottles and cans “after they have been blown up.”
A video of brew day for the 2012 Fort Collins Collusion brew 2012. The beer – brewed with honey & Colorado snow, is a collab between Equinox, Fort Collins, Pateros Creek, Crooked Stave, New Belgium, Coopersmith’s, Odell, & CB Potts.
Yesterday, Shelton Brothers issued a response to the tax situation in New York. Recently the state’s supreme court recently declared unconstitutional two state tax exemptions that benefited small breweries. That means the consumer pint price could increase. At the source of the controversy is Shelton Brothers, an importer that is based in Massachusetts. Basically, the importer filed suit claiming that New York brewers paying lower taxes than out of state breweries was unfair. The resulting decision has brought Shelton some headaches. Yesterday Shelton issued a statement, basically calling out Brooklyn Brewery. Today, Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn responded in a Beer Advocate forum:
Well, well, well. I have just been made aware of this thread. Let me just make a few points here. I am not a lawyer like Mr. Shelton, so I cannot claim to have any direct knowledge of what effects these tax law changes will have. I also have nothing to do with legislative issues or dealings with political figures – I make beer. I argued to Mr. Shelton, in a private email, that perhaps he should not be doing things that will have negative effects on small breweries.
I pointed out that I like many of the beers he imports, that I have helped promote them (as most of us have, in some way or other), and that I’ve poured them in numerous tastings. Why, I wondered – talking, as I thought I was, to him alone – would he want to do a thing like this? Even if his statements regarding tax law are correct (and I have no idea whether they are), many states have situations that in some way favor in-state brewers. Frankly, it never occurred to me to think of them as unfair. I will not go down this path and print bits and pieces of Mr. Shelton’s response; I would, however, characterize it as inflammatory. Mr. Shelton and I have had many heated arguments, often to the wee hours, all over foreign capitols; it’s a running joke at this point.
I will also say that I have not, with anyone, anywhere, discussed, mentioned, or alluded to this issue. Nor have I read any of these blogs he speaks of. Did I ask Mr. Shelton “WTF”? Yes, I certainly did. I did not expect to find my comments to him characterized in the press; I thought I was talking to Mr. Shelton. But then again, I’m an adult, and I do read the news, and I should know better – people do these things. And, the more I think of it, in this situation, that makes me the idiot here. Mr. Shelton is far smarter, and knows exactly what he’s doing.
Now that Oskar Blues (Lyon, CO) has the ability to produce 16oz cans (see Deviant Dales) the brewery is looking to add G’Knight to the tallboy lineup. G’Knight went by the name “Gordon” until Gordon Biersch sued to the brewery over the name.
