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This is How SweetWater Waxes Your Bottles [Video]

SweetWater is in the process of releasing 2012 Festive bombers. Each one is dipped by hand in wax.  Fun at first, but tedious over time ( right @BravesandBeer?) Congrats Francesca on your first waxing session. (Bomber waxing that is. )

Posted in Beer News

Founder’s Backwoods Bastard Returns To Atlanta

Backwoods Bastard is back in the A.  This fall seasonal from Founders Brewing (Grand Rapids, MI) is a must have for bold tastebuds.  Take a big scotch ale and throw it in a bourbon oak barrels you get a rare treat comes around once a year.  Love barrel aged beer?  Don’t miss this.

Expect lovely, warm smells of single malt scotch, oaky bourbon barrels, smoke, sweet caramel and roasted malts, a bit of earthy spice, and a scintilla of dark fruit. It’s a kick-back sipper made to excite the palate.

Style: Scotch Ale (Barrel Aged)

Taste Expectations: Vanilla from the bourbon.  Touch of oak. Malts are sweet, & caramel, some bread.  Also a bit of dark fruits, chocolate, & a warming alcohol finish.

Availability: 12oz/4 pks.  Draft.  Late fall seasonal.

10.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Anheuser-Busch, Beer News

Anheuser-Busch Asks Paramount To Obscure Labels in Movie “Flight”

In theaters now is a new movie by Paramount Pictures called “Fight”. In the film, Denzel Washington plays airplane pilot Whip Whittaker. The movie’s premise is Whittaker’s plane failing forces an emergency landing that saves lives of many on board. The catch? Alcohol in his blood.

Whittaker is depict drinking Budweiser and driving, and flying a commercial plane. This depiction, which AB calls “unauthorized” has asked Paramount Pictures to remove or obscure the labels from all the films, and future DVDs and BluRays. Below, movie trailer for Flight, starring Denzel Washington. In theaters now. [Via Paramount Pictures Intern]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Mikkeller

Mikkeller & Boxing Cat Team Up To Make “Bruce ChiLee IPA”

Bruce Lee is kicking ass again in the form of a beer collaboration. Danish brewer Mikkeller and Beijing, China’s Boxing Cat Brewery created Bruce ChiLee IPA. The resulting beer packs a punch. ChiLee is brewed with green chilis, rye malt and American Simcoe hops.  This is Boxing Cat’s second collaboration, the first with Great Leap Brewing in Shanghai, China.

Mikkeller has a long list of collaborations all over the world now, spanning from Asia, Europe and the United States. Bad news for the rest of the world, this beer will only be available at Boxing Cat in China.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Terrapin Beer Company

Terrapin Indiana Krunkles Leads Election For 2013 Return

Terrapin Beer Co’s Indiana Krunkles is leading Terrapin’s “You Vote” Election. Fans have the opportunity to vote for which brew to bring back in 2013.  As of 11:30 AM, the leaders are:

Indiana Krunkles (3,353 votes)

Dos Cocoas (2,479)

Sunray Wheat ( 1, 248)

Hop Shortage (1,124)

Today, cast two votes. One for your next POTUS, and one for the Terrapin Beer you want back. Go Here —-> http://terrapinbeer.com/vote/

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

This is How SweetWater Waxes Your Bottles [Video]

SweetWater is in the process of releasing 2012 Festive bombers. Each one is dipped by hand in wax.  Fun at first, but tedious over time ( right @BravesandBeer?) Congrats Francesca on your first waxing session. (Bomber waxing that is. )

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

History Of Narragansett [Video]

It runs 21 minutes, but here is the history of Narragansett via Bloomberg.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Shmaltz Brewing

Hurricane Sandy Damages Worlds Smallest Brewery [PIC]

Shmaltz Brewing lays claim to the “Worlds Smallest Brewery” on Coney Island in New York. It produces 1 gallon at a time. Hurricane Sandy isn’t much of a beer lover. As you see above, she had her way with the tiny brewery.

by Reid Ramsay