Hop City Craft Beer & Wine was just named RateBeer.com’s 12th best beer store on the Planet! That’s huge. MailChimp posted a cool video featuring the owner/founder of Hop City Kraig Torres in a short movie called “Customer Story: Hop Continue Reading →
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 →
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.
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 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 –
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 →
Hop City Craft Beer & Wine was just named RateBeer.com’s 12th best beer store on the Planet! That’s huge. MailChimp posted a cool video featuring the owner/founder of Hop City Kraig Torres in a short movie called “Customer Story: Hop City”. Well made, and worth a watch. The movie is directed by Josh Rosenbaum.Why does everything make me thirsty? Follow @HopCity on Twitter . Note: [FLASH NEEDED]
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 the same thing if conditions existed. Open your front door, grab a beer, have a seat. Works for me.
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:
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.
@AtlantaBeer – Everyone thinks it’s some alter ego I made up. He’s huge on Twitter, & beer in Atlanta. And my arch nemesis/friend.
@MyAlement – The onion of beer. Someone finally trying to get us to laugh at ourselves. Podcast partner in crime.
@AleSharpton – Another awesome beer guy & writer. Classes up the joint a bit.
@SquirrelStash – Never met him, but he drinks beer, & says it how it is. Downright funny at times. Annoys ding.
@D_I_N_G – Where to begin with this guy. He’s an Englishman trapped in a city he seems to hate, in a state he seems to hate, in a country he seems to hate, in a beer culture he seems to hate. People call him out all the time about session beer, & his thoughts on beer & beer culture. He seems to dislike what I drink, & the stuff I write about. BUT, rumor has it he’s quite the nice guy in person. Plus he knows beer. Perhaps one day I’ll meet him. (Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting?)
@CurtDawsey. He looks like Dwight from The Office. Could write you a 20 page paper on anything you ask in about an hour. Drinks beer, works for distributor. Cool dude.
@restaurantsATL – Loves craft beer. Oh, and restaurants. Skinny guy that loves food & beer. The human body is really weird.
@damunroe – Owns a very popular beer/restaurant in ATL. Knows his craft beer & a nice guy to boot. Very generous in sharing hard to find beers.
@Carny93 – Hockey ref, and beer lover. He’s got a lot of pucks. Real pucks, you perv.
@CraftBeerDesign – Quiet guy that loves beer. Wouldn’t know he’s there unless you look..lol. Find him and buy a round.
@Hoptopia – Drinks beer, rates beer. Has an app for that.
@CBL1978 – He does 3 things. Loves his family, drinks craft beer, reads comics. Awesome
@AleYeahBeer – A craft beer boutique that just opened in Decatur, GA. They have chocolate..
@ATL_Events – Events, Atlanta, beer drinker. Fellow Star Wars nerd.
@GalsSirens – Women & Beer, women & beer. Oh, and I’m on their hitlist.
@gunslinger19 – Beer dude. Home brewer. Has an ipod touch I swear he makes calls from.
@OBoudreaux – Home brewer. Bicyclist. Has a crawlspace without bodies in it.
@Kitchen&Kegs – Matt Deckard makes amazing food. With all the awesome beer to go along w/ it. Go there now.
@BeerWildHeaven – New brewery headed your way soon with great beer. Get on board early.
brysonsdad – Hockey lover, & father. Hockey united him with this replacement kidney. I’m sure he loves beer. I just enjoy the story regardless.
@SquarePub – Put a craft beer bar in Decatur recently. Loves the firkins. Loves the beers. And they sell tater tots.
@SweetWaterBrew – I love their beer. I annoy Steve for info. They have learned to put up with me. We are so “In like” with each other.
@TerrapinBeerATL – He works for Terrapin. I honestly think he “samples” the beer all day. Just for quality control purposes. Safety first.
@Hotoberfest101 – 2 really funny guys that put on Atlanta’s Hotoberfest. If you ever spend time with them in a car, pee first.
@Catholicdrinkie – She’s Catholic, and a beer drinker. Then she writes about it. I guess God has sins in writing now. Maybe St. Peter is a drinker too.
And that’s just Atlanta. It would take me another hour to cover everybody else, all the bars, & breweries. I’m sorry if I missed someone. Seriously. I’m sorry. Its after 10am. Time for a beer.
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 –
From Dogfish’s “Blogfish”:
Bryan, Floris and I are having a busy-fun day on the R & D brewery in our Rehoboth Brewpub today. We are brewing NOBLE ROT and we are transferring a beer called HARDTACK (the earlier name for this beer was DRINK ME). It’s going into a port barrel stuffed with pureed sour cherrries.
NOBLE ROT is a sort of saison brewed with Red Winter Wheat that is matlter by our friends at Valley Malsters in Hadley, MA right down the road from where I grew up. I think it’s cool that we were able to get this from a micro-maltster as it’s made in small volumes from grains harvested in New England with unique regional terroir. NOBLE ROT gains complexity and fermentable sugars from the additions of two unique grapes that come from the vineyards of of Jarrod and Nicole Boyle of Alexandria Nicole Cellars in Prosser, Washington.
The first addition is the must of Voigner grapes that have been transformed by the fungal growth of Botrytis (YUM!). This “Noble Rot” reduces the grapes water content while magnifying its sweetness and complexity. The second addition is a pinot gris grape with an intensified complexity gained through the process of “dropping fruit” – clipping away at large clusters of grapes to magnafy the quality anbd distinction of the smaller clusters harvested.
Both NOBLE ROT and HARDTACK will be on tap at our Rehoboth pub in about a month. We hope to serve NOBLE ROT at The Extreme Beer Fest in Boston and HARDTACK at GABF.
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 an episode. All 6 episodes will set you back a whopping $9.95.
The 6th episode of Brew Masters is still currently in the works, with a few setbacks due to weather in New York City. Episode 6 features a segment about Sam Calgione of Dogfish Head’s newest collaboration Eataly, an 8,000 square foot brewery and restaurant in NYC, opening in the spring.
A simple Itunes search will yield the episodes you seek… Happy watching!
