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Help Monday Night Pick A (Witty) Name

Monday Night Brewing (Atlanta, GA) is working on their 3rd offering offering.  It’s a Belgian style witbier, name pending.   The young brewery has teamed up with Scoutmob to help narrow the names down a bit.  Above are the three finalists. Continue Reading →

Beer Saved The World [Infographic]

The numbers are a little off (there are more breweries now then when this was made) but the premise is still pretty cool. It gets you all psyched up for beer.  [FastCoDesigns via @HopCast]

Posted in Cool Stuff, Monday Night Brewing

Help Monday Night Pick A (Witty) Name

Monday Night Brewing (Atlanta, GA) is working on their 3rd offering offering.  It’s a Belgian style witbier, name pending.   The young brewery has teamed up with Scoutmob to help narrow the names down a bit.  Above are the three finalists.  Got an opinion? Hit up the Scoutmob Facebook page.  Add your 2 cents worth.  Witty = Witbier. Get it?  Yeah it’s funny.

Posted in Churchkey Can Co, Cool Stuff, Videos

Churchkey Can Co Brings Old School Flat Tops Back [Video]

For the first time in over 50 years you will be able to drink from a flat-top beer can – just like the original looked like.  Why? Here’s a little backstory.   Back in 2010, two guys (Adrian Grenier and Justin Hawkins) wanted to drink a beer  out a can like folks did a generation before.  As you can imagine, can design has changed a bit since their inception. (Like cars, trains, planes, etc.)  The steel, flat top can was no longer in production.  I mean, you had to open cans of beer with a churchkey!  No pop tops back then.  (Don’t know what that is? watch the video or ask your parents.)

The Cans.  
In conjunction with Ball Corporation (they make aluminum cans. Lots and lots of them)  Adrian and Justin perfected the second coming of the flat top can.  Now you need a beer to put in it.

What beer? 
Enter homebrewer’s Sean Burke and Lucas Jones.  Two home brewers in Portland that were tapped to create Church Key Pilsner.

Church Key Can Co.
The face & name for the new flat top can brewing company.  The beer will be brewed by Joel VandenBrink at Two Beers Brewing in Seattle, Washington.  The first brewery in the area to churn out cans.

There ya go.  What’s old is new again.  Thanks to Adrian, Justin, Joel, Sean, Lucas & Ball Corporation.  [PressRelease]

Style: Pilsner
Hops: Saaz
Availability: 12 oz “Flat top” cans

4.9% ABV, 29 IBUs

Original Flat Top Beer Can from Churchkey Can co. on Vimeo.

Opening a flat top.  Pic via @HawkinsJustin

Posted in Cool Stuff, Videos

The World’s First Spill Proof Beer [Video]

Hahn Brewery in Australia wants to fix a constant problem afflicting beer drinkers.  Spillage.  The contraption isn’t very sexy, but the results are.

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Beer Saved The World [Infographic]

The numbers are a little off (there are more breweries now then when this was made) but the premise is still pretty cool. It gets you all psyched up for beer.  [FastCoDesigns via @HopCast]

Beer Saved The World Infographic

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Epic GIF Of Princess Leia Giving Luke A Beer

This is how you finish off your Friday afternoon. With an animated GIF of Princess Leia giving Luke Skywalker a beer.  Best part this is real.   Whoever made this took it from behind the scenes footage of the making of the original trilogy.   You’ve just blown up the Death Star.  Time for a cold one.  Watch and enjoy.  [4Gifs.com via @Gizmodo]

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Sometimes I Think Beer Geeks Hate Everything. Even Themselves [Videos]

Sometimes I think beer geeks hate everything. Even themselves.  This is turning into a video series. 

Today’s New Wave of So-Called “Beer Geek.” from John Smith on Vimeo.

Beer Geek Goes Shopping

Today’s “Beer Geek” Goes Beer Shopping from John Smith on Vimeo.

Beer Geek Goes To Festival

Today’s “Beer Geek” Goes to a Brewfest from John Smith on Vimeo.

Posted in Cool Stuff, Guinness, Videos

A Guinness Loving Dog That Rounds Up Drinking Friends [Video]

By now you’ve figured out what tomorrow is.  Time for a little Guinness fun.