Mr. and Mrs. Moron Brew Beer
It’s in the Can
Even Wiki gets into the act?
It’s a first-year event, but Buckbean Brewing Company owners Douglas Booth and Daniel Kahn of Reno already are able to boast of having what is likely the largest canned beer festival in the world.
The event, Canfest: Reno International Canned Beer Festival, will be Oct. 23 at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, and it will feature beer sampling and judging with one big rule: Every beer must come straight from a can.
When they were producing Canfest, the Buckbean owners decided to implement the cans-only rule primarily to tear down the myth that great beer comes only from bottles.
“If good beer goes into a can, you get good beer out of the can,” said Kahn, the Buckbean brewmaster. “That’s the problem with people’s perception. They’ve seen so much bad beer put into a can that when the bad beer comes out, they blame it on the can instead of the beer.”
From the Bottle Collection: Towpath Chocolate Raspberry Stout
Without intent, I have collected well over 1,000 beer bottles since the early 70s. When something finally had to be done about the cheap paneling in this old modular, I had a choice. Tear down the walls while, oh, so carefully, replacing the often rotted 1X3s. Or: cover them with… The Bottle Collection.
Towpath Chocolate Raspberry Stout
Manufacturer: Relyea Brewing Co. (Syracuse, New York)
Note: yes, I know, the picture isn’t the best.
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Not So Naughty Beer Ad
Brew Biz: Werts and All
This Edition: A review of the new “kid” on the Middle Tennessee brew block.
On Saturday 14th, 2 p.m., probably up on the balcony, Music City Brewers will be meeting at…
Cool Springs Brewery
600A Frazier Drive
Suite 135
Franklin, TN 37067
615-503-9626
coolspringsbrewery.com
Brewer: Mike Kraft
Written by Ken Carman
Though plans can change, I probably won’t be there because I have an interview with Fred Matt in Utica, NY, and have to work on my retirement home in the Adirondacks, so I stopped by to check it out a few times more than I intended. You see I took pictures during my two visits. Later that day my camera introduced me to a feature I didn’t even know it had: “delete everything.” Aw, shucks, I had to stop again the next Saturday. Ah, a beer lover’s work is never done.
Directions: I zeroed out the trip just as I exited exit 68B off I-65; Cool Springs. Take the west portion of the exit. Now you could take the first left after the reentry to I-65: Mallory LN., then your first right (unnamed) and it will be on your left in a while, but I recommend passing Mallory and taking the next left that looks like it goes to TGIF and Walgreens… small Thomasville Furniture sign too. That’s actually an unnamed access road. Not even 1 mile to that turn. (0.8) Once you get to a stop sign your trip will probably read 0.9 or still 0.8. You should see Cool Springs Brewery in the brick shopping plaza on your right. Take that right then a quick left and park. If you keep going straight you might hear a few complaints in a British brogue from the owners because you will have driven right through the windows; not a good idea. )
I’ve been told that for the first few months, to a year or more, it’s best not to rate the brews at new brewpubs. Give them time to tweak recipes and “get their legs.”
Well, Mike Kraft blew that mostly foam laden assumption out of the wert.
Obviously all that foam made the picture a bit hazy. No, after losing all those pictures I took another one and it looked good in the camera. Then the digital gremlins got to it and licked it hoping it tasted like his beer. Hope it was at least worth the effort boys. Driving to Cool Springs three times sure was worth it for me.
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Lose Weight on the Beer Yeast Diet?
“Beer yeast way to lose weight. Beer yeast way to lose weight is to eat it at least once. Specific method is to drink yogurt mixed with it so as to inhibit body’s absorption of calories.”
Lose Weight on the Beer Yeast Diet?
“Beer yeast way to lose weight. Beer yeast way to lose weight is to eat it at least once. Specific method is to drink yogurt mixed with it so as to inhibit body’s absorption of calories.”
Also can be found at Professor Good Ale’s beer section here at LT Saloon.
Beer Profile: Fresh Hop Ale
Mr. and Mrs. Moron Brew Beer
Pot Beer
Written by Greg Kitsock
©Copyright 1997 Greg Kitsock
It was called Brain Death, and it was a highgravity brew in more than one sense of the word.
Brain Death was the creation of two homebrewers and certified beer judges, both brewers of whom are highly respected in their hobby. (For reasons that will become apparent, they wish to remain anonymous.) A potent barleywine (OG 1,100), Brain Death contained an extra ingredient that one of the euphemistically calls “special hops”.
In fact, the beer was “dryhemped” with flowers of the female marijuana plant, homegrown by an acquaintance in Texas. The alcohol and tetrahydrocannibanol (THC) made a mindrattling combination.
The creators of Brain Death brought some samples to the 1988 American Homebrewers Association convention in Denver, CO. There, the brewers were approached by Michael Jackson. Recalled one of them: “We told him what was in it, and poured him a pint. Fortyfive minutes later, he came back and asked, ‘Is there any chance there would be some Brain Death left?’ We gave him our last bottle.”
The brewer later had his copy of Michael Jackson’s Beer Companion inscribed, “To [NAME]. Ever since we met, I’ve been suffering from Brain Death. Cheers, Michael.”
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