Cool Stuff

Vote For Founder’s New Label

Founder’s Brewing is asking for help with picking a label for an upcoming beer.  Apparently Founder’s has been working on the recipe for about 2 years but ran into some naming rights issues. Now they have 3 labels to choose Continue Reading →

Fat Tire’s Joy Ride

In honor of New Belgium Brewing’s 20th Anniversary, Fat Tire is going on a joy ride.  Through Labor Day 2011, Fat Tire headlines a Joyride Campaign focusing on stories about the beer’s history; both in enjoyment and in brewing process.  The Joyride campaign leads up to a big surprise in June – and the release of New Belgium’s Fat Tire inspired release of Super Cru.  New labels will accompany the promotion – the infamous tire slowing leaving the Fat Tire labels, only to return loaded up from the Joy Ride.  (Or for the Joyride?)

Check out the promotion site —> Joy Ride 2011

Dogfish Head Ta Henket

Back on at the brewpub in Milton, Delaware is another interesting beer from Dogfish Head.  They have brewed it once before.  Ta Henket is the name, another beer meets archeology and history.  If you watched the Brew Masters series, you Continue Reading →

Kiuchi Brewing Bottles Water For Quake Victims

Kiuchi Brewing – best known for Hitachino line of beers suffered some damage in the recent Japan quake.  Posted to their website since the quake –

A big earthquake happend around our brewery.  It will take a long time todo our ordinary job including export to foreign countries.
We will do our best to reconstruct our brewery, so please wait for a while.

In leiu of brewing, Kiuchi Brewing is has suspended production of beer and is bottling water to help the victims of this terrible tragedy.

Posted to a BeerAdvocate forum today was a response from B. United, importers of Hitachino:

40 Days Of Beer For Lent

Many people give up things for Lent.  I actually know people that have given up beer for Lent.  Here is guy that went the other way on sacrificing for Lent – food. Not beer. He will drink nothing but Continue Reading →

Untappd Adds Desktop Checkins

For those Untappd users out there, the ability to checkin on your desktop/laptop is now available.

The number of Untappd users seems to multiply daily, and many users suggestions to the developers were that they wanted to checkin without the smartphone. Continue Reading →