via DDB: This was one of like 50 bottles so at least we know this is a contained incident most people won’t endure. I paid $100 for this vial of pool chemicals to step on my cubes. The swallow is Southwest customer service and no vouchers are provided. You can feel the sides of your …
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Beer: In Memory of Armand Debelder
Via 3 Fonteinen’s Instagram: It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that we announce the passing of Armand.The inspirer of 3 Fonteinen and an inspiration for many, a gentle teacher to his team, Opa Geuze to the brewery kids, and as a second father to some of us. Armand, you will leave an …
Beer Haul: 2020
Only one beer haul post this year. Buying has once again gotten slower and that’s perfectly fine. Heather actually joined Bruery’s Reserve Society in 2020 and we will be picking up her bottles in a few weeks so those will have to show up in the 2021 edition of the beer haul. Enjoy:
Linked: “Apple Leadership Bubblegum Cards”
Via Daring Fireball: (a tech & politics blog) My biggest question and deepest concern regarding Apple’s leadership, especially now that Ive is gone and Phil Schiller has moved on to a fellowship with only the App Store and events on his plate,2 is whose taste is driving product development? I had the exact same consideration …
Linked: Question. Act. Evolve.
Incredible writing from Shaun Hill of Hill Farmstead Brewery. I have yet to find a written word from someone literally in my neck of the woods on this movement we’re experiencing. The problem with where I live, closer to Canada than Boston and in Shaun’s case, closer to Montreal than Boston is we are in …
Cellaring: Our Beer Cellar is Nearly Complete
After purchasing this house in October 2016, it wasn’t until March that we finally moved in. The beer slowly got unpacked but it wasn’t until Summer of 2017 that we got around to building a beer room which was 2×6 construction, R40 insulation and an exterior door locking in all of the cool air coming …
Beer Haul: Second Half of 2019
Here’s part 1 of my 2019 beer Haul ending in July. Here is 2018. Part 2 of 2019…pretty small but still exciting. Enjoy! \
Beer: Goose Island’s 2019 Bourbon County Release in Philadelphia
In 2013, Chris and I drove my white Golf R to Chicago for Goose Island’s Black Friday release. It was windy, cold, miserable as we spent 8 hours in front of Binny’s waiting to get our bottles then move across the street to the brewpub for a brewer’s tasting with pairings of all of that …
Beer: Bruery’s Black Tuesday 10th Anniversary Party in Washington DC 2019
For the 2nd year in a row, heather and I went to Washington DC for Bruery’s annual Black Tuesday release party. This is only the 2nd year they’ve done this on the East Coast but since they’re a California based brewery, we don’t give them a hard time for that. I have been a Bruery …
Beer Haul: First Half of 2019
In 2018, my beer haul was just a single post. Nice that I did increase spending enough to justify doing this after 6 months versus 12. I’m pretty proud of this year’s ‘haul’ so far.