Cool Stuff

COOL: Snow Beer Cooler

Big snow storm crossing the United States right now.  Here’s a beer/snow nugget courtesy of @musecrossing on Twitter.   Not sure if this is his/her front door, BUT I’m going with it.  As a previous northerner myself, I’d be doing Continue Reading →

PIC: SweetWater Mean Joe Bean Brewing

Cool pic. SweetWater Brewing adding Java Vino coffee to the whirlpool.  The beer? Mean Joe Bean.  Next in the Dank Tank bomber release series.

Release Date: Mid-Late February 2011

Wild Heaven’s “Serve Your Neighbor” Vid

Wild Heaven Craft Beer recently posted a video giving a bit of back ground on the brewery’s “Serve Your Neighbor motto.  Video is well done.  Check it out:

Wild Heaven Craft Beer: Mini Doc from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo.

Epic Twitter #FF

I spend an inordinate amount of time writing about beer. As evidenced by the close to 1,000 posts preceding this. Besides the blogging, I’m on Twitter, where my craft beer alcoholism goes “public.” Every Friday, Twitter has this tradition that entails a Follow Friday or #FF tweet that acts as a shout out to your friends.

After a while on Twitter I’ve interacted with a lots of people now, both at the bar or online. My #FF would get pretty lengthy so I thought perhaps I’d do something different – my biggest #FF blog/twitter crossover shoutout thingie.  This is in NO particular order. Or region,  or anything. Here goes.

Dogfish Experiments “Noble Rot” & “Hardtack”

Dogfish Head is doing a little beer experimentation.  No rest for the weary.  Two beers with intriguing brew processes, and equally interesting are the beers of note –  “Noble Rot” & “Hard Tack”.  Hard Tack was just transferred into a port barrel with sour cherries. Noble Rot is starting to sound like a science experiment meets grapes meets beer.  In an awesome way.  Read on for Sam’s post on this –

Brew Masters Hits Itunes!

I have no earthly idea when this actually occured – but Discovery Channel’s “Brew Masters” is now available on Itunes.  The initial run of the show entails 6 episodes – 5 of which are now available on Itunes for $1.99 Continue Reading →