SweetWater Brewery (Atlanta, GA) spent last week hand dipping 22oz bombers of 2012 Festive Ale. Above is a bomber post-wax job. Festive is a winter warmer brewed with cinnamon and mace. 8.6% ABV. Part of the brewery’s Catch & Release Continue Reading →
It runs 21 minutes, but here is the history of Narragansett via Bloomberg.
Anchor Brewing Company officially announced their Christmas Ale for 2012. This year marks year #38 for the brew. That’s 38 recipes. Each label is as different as the beer itself, each label is a hand drawn tree.
Since ancient Continue Reading →
Stone’s paragon of Liquid Arrogance — Double Bastard is back. The American strong ale, chock full of hops. (and booze). Technically already on the shelves for a lot of you.
For those label lovers:
Warning: Double Bastard Ale is not to Continue Reading →
Join Great Divide at The Fred Bar for a big pre-halloween bash. Be sure you’re thirsty, There will be a few yeti’s running around.
Join Cypress Street on 10/30/12 for pumpkin beers, and beers straight out of pumpkins.
Atlanta Beer Week 2012 is upon us. I recently got to do a video for Thrillist.com. We travelled to The Fred (speakeasy craft beer bar), Cypress Street (awesome food & beer), and SweetWater Brewery. It’s goofy, but here is a Continue Reading →
SweetWater Brewery (Atlanta, GA) spent last week hand dipping 22oz bombers of 2012 Festive Ale. Above is a bomber post-wax job. Festive is a winter warmer brewed with cinnamon and mace. 8.6% ABV. Part of the brewery’s Catch & Release Series.
Style: Winter Warmer (w/ Cinnamon, Mace)
Availability: 22oz bombers, 12 oz bottles, Draft. Fall/Winter Seasonal
8.6% ABV
It runs 21 minutes, but here is the history of Narragansett via Bloomberg.
Anchor Brewing Company officially announced their Christmas Ale for 2012. This year marks year #38 for the brew. That’s 38 recipes. Each label is as different as the beer itself, each label is a hand drawn tree.
Since ancient times, trees have symbolized the winter solstice when the earth, with its seasons, appears born anew. For this year’s Christmas Ale, we have selected the Norfolk Island pine. Captain Cook discovered this South Seas isle and its native tree in 1774. These tropical-looking conifers, which thrive in sandy soil and coastal climes, were first planted in California in the 1850s. The Norfolk Island pine on this year’s label resides in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
Anchor Christmas Ale is very cellarable, so drink some now, and some for years to come
Style: Winter Warmer
Availability: 12oz bottles, 1.5 L bottles, Draft. Nov – January. Seasonally
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Stone’s paragon of Liquid Arrogance — Double Bastard is back. The American strong ale, chock full of hops. (and booze). Technically already on the shelves for a lot of you.
For those label lovers:
Warning: Double Bastard Ale is not to be wasted on the tentative or weak. Only the Worthy are invited, and then only at your own risk. If you have even a modicum of hesitation, DO NOT buy this bottle. Instead, leave it for a Worthy soul who has already matriculated to the sublime ecstasy of what those in the know refer to as “Liquid Arrogance.”
This is one lacerative muther of an ale. It is unequivocally certain that your feeble palate is grossly inadequate and thus undeserving of this liquid glory…and those around you would have little desire to listen to your resultant whimpering. Instead, you slackjawed gaping gobemouche, slink away to that pedestrian product that lures agog the great unwashed with the shiny happy imagery of its silly broadcast propaganda. You know, the one that offers no challenge, yet works very, very hard to imbue the foolhardy with the absurd notion that they are exercising ‘independent’ thought, or attempts to convey the perception it is in some way ‘authentic’ or ‘original.’ It’s that one that makes you feel safe and delectates you into basking in the warm, fuzzy, and befuddled glow of your own nescience. Why so many allow themselves to be led by the nose lacks plausible explanation. Perhaps you have been so lulled by the siren song of ignorance that you don’t even notice your white-knuckle grip on it. You feel bold and unique, but alas are nothing but sheep, willingly being herded to and fro. If you think you are being piqued in this text, it is nothing when compared to the insults we are all asked to swallow streaming forth from our televisions and computers. Truth be told, you are being coddled into believing you are special or unique by ethically challenged “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” marketers who layer (upon layer) imagined attributes specifically engineered to lead you by the nose. Should you decide to abdicate your ability to make decisions for yourself, then you are perhaps deserving of the pabulum they serve. Double Bastard Ale calls out the garrulous caitiffs who perpetrate the aforementioned atrocities and demands retribution for their outrageously conniving, intentionally misleading, blatantly masturbatory and fallacious ad campaigns. We demand the unmitigated, transparent truth. We demand forthright honesty. We want justice! Call ‘em out and line ‘em up against the wall… NOW.
Style: American Strong Ale
Availability: 22oz bombers, 3 Liter BIG bottles, Draft.
10.5% ABV
Join Great Divide at The Fred Bar for a big pre-halloween bash. Be sure you’re thirsty, There will be a few yeti’s running around.
Join Cypress Street on 10/30/12 for pumpkin beers, and beers straight out of pumpkins.
Atlanta Beer Week 2012 is upon us. I recently got to do a video for Thrillist.com. We travelled to The Fred (speakeasy craft beer bar), Cypress Street (awesome food & beer), and SweetWater Brewery. It’s goofy, but here is a little on what Atlanta is all about.
