I stopped by 3 Fonteinen last week to get some Framboos, cheese and Gueuze and also drop in Armand’s Brother’s restaurant to have some 2001 Oude Gueuze and of course, Stew. Framboos 2014 was 19 Euros a person and limit 2 bottles per person. About 800 were sold on-site with the rest packaged up in …
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★ Linked: Thrillist, “The 3 types of drinkers who age beer”
via: As craft beer gets bigger, it’s also finding at its center people who simply love beer. Sometimes, though, that love can lead to obsession, creating special groups of fans on the fringes who sometimes seem to speak another language. And sometimes, they live in the cellar. Honestly, I’m only linking to this because they …
★ Linked: “2014 – The Year in VT Beer”
via VTBeer: 11 breweries opened in 2014. As of the end of 2014, we have 40 breweries excluding brands and contract-only brewers. 3 breweries closed in 2014. 1 brand purchased from a closed brewery in 2014. 2 new Vermont-based client breweries in 2014. As of the end of 2014, we have 5 contract-only brewing businesses. Lots of brewery expansions, …
★ I’m not ordering from Crush Wine anymore
Received this today: There are a lot of ways to sell these hard to get Bourbon and Rye bottles. You can do a lottery, raffle or offer them to your most loyal customers but what you shouldn’t do is jack up the price. I don’t care that Old Rip van Winkle 10 year goes for …
★ Linked: Vav of LP Binny’s in Chicago on the 2014 Goose Island BCS Release
via BeerAdvocate (ugh): I got about 14 hours of sleep so i’m all bright eyed and bushy tailed today. Thanks to all the Goose/Lakeshore Bev people on hand to help out, super extra thanks to all the Binny’s employees, and mondo amazing thanks to all of you for coming out and making this a super …
★ 500 Hill Farmstead Beers Consumed
I was pretty happy to see this over the weekend. The only time I’ve had HFS beers and not checked in was @ their festivals where there is no cell-service but I’d say this number is pretty accurate. I had my first Hill Farmstead beer in January of 2012 so that’s 2 years and 9 …
★ New Vermont Brewery: Infinity Brewing
Infinity Brewing in Vermont is brand new. They’re not even on the VT Passport yet. I had the honor of trying 8 of their beers in bottle form last weekend and I’m pretty impressed. No, they’re not all A+ OMFG awesome but for a new brewery that just opened, they’ve already started to do interesting …
★ Here you go, Maxwell Arndt – “Re: Beer Soap?!”
I sometimes get press releases about beer. This one arrived last night. Maybe someone out there cares. Here ya go: Hi Adam – First of all, I’m jealous of your dandelion experience at Hill Farmstead. Second, I was initially envious of your Rue D’Floyd & Floyd D’Rue bottles, but in reading the tasting notes am …
★ Hoarding: We could be worse, right? Right?
via LaughingSquid & Vice: With The World Speed Project, Ryan Beitz is attempting to become the owner of every VHS copy of the 1994 Keanu Reeves thriller, Speed. The Idaho resident, who was recently the subject of a Vice profile, currently owns around 550 copies of the film on video cassette with an additional 26 copies of the laserdisc version. If …
★ News: Untappd Beer Page Re-Design
I use Untappd on my iPhone but today I visited their site and it looks great! Nice update. Also, I’ve had Hill Farmstead beers at least 324 times and also, they don’t have 124 unique beers. That’s just not true.