Stephanie, her dad Bill, and I took Sierra Nevada’s Beer Geek Tour on Friday. Here’s how they describe this tour: Saddle up for an intimate, 3-hour tour into the depths of what makes Sierra Nevada tick. Really, this is leave-a-trail-of-bread-crumbs detailed, so we’re keeping groups small (5 new best friends for you!) and the experience…
Gigantic Brewing is one of many small breweries in Portland Oregon, but they help set themselves apart with their fantastic labels. I’ve never had any of their beers so I’ll have to take their word on their claim of making “the best damn IPA in Portland.” The label for their Gigantic IPA isn’t bad but I…
I have recently embarked on a beer nerd adventure, a rather sedate adventure, but it’s exciting to me. I am creating a “beer education binder” for my fellow bartenders at work. Perhaps adventure is the wrong word. This process has been fun and thus far rewarding for me. The binder includes “one sheets” on each…
I submitted the following photos to the A Good Beer Blog photo contest: They’re certainly not masterpieces, and all but the last one were taken with my iPhone, but we’ll see how they do. I resisted submitting this amazing piece of art:
I really like the serigraphed simplicity of all of Tröegs‘ labels. They remind me of local Chico artists Jake Early. Tröegs, located across the country in Hershey Pennsylvania, was started by brothers Chris and John Trogner in 1997. Nugget Nectar is an Imperial Amber, which isn’t a BJCP style but sounds delicious. Nugget Nectar is…
Many Major League Baseball players are on Twitter. The MLB Twitter account even maintains what looks to be a fairly exhaustive list: https://twitter.com/MLB/players/members. It’s the off-season so I needed something baseball related to occupy myself with until pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training, so I went searching for Baseball’s Kings of Twitter. I would…
It’s November so we’re left to obsess over the free agent market and stats from last season for a few more months. Let’s take a look at some regression candidates from the 2013 season. We’ll look at some stats that could indicate players that were unlucky or lucky this last season. BABIP Leaders by Position…
I recently “earned” the Legendary badge on Untappd for checking in to my 500th unique beer. I’m now up to 771 check-ins with 544 unique beers. I thought it would be interesting to see how many of those 544 beers I gave the full five star rating. There were only twelve. Two of those were…
Sierra Nevada Brewing founder Ken Grossman recently released a book detailing the humble beginnings and rise of what is today one of the largest breweries in the country. Having grown up in Chico California, and being the same age as the brewery, Sierra Nevada has always been a part of my environment. I recently finished…
Today is International Stout Day and to celebrate I’m sipping on one of the original american imperial stouts that helped kick of the craft beer revolution, North Coast‘s Russain Imperial Stout. Twenty-five years later it is still one of the best. Have a happy Stout Day!
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