It has come to my attention that writing about beer once a week is not sufficient. Must, write, more. That being said, I recently tapped some beerish brains and asked questions which in turn prompted a very unique conversation. I won’t say who (just yet), but some notable beer industry names are involved in the dialogue. This has led me down a path from which there is no return. I’ve teamed up with my buddy Ian Burgess, who is a technical beer freakazoid, to help me work on a potentially game-changing project. We’re using our fancy and worthless engineering / business backgrounds to develop the next big thing in beer. This is not however an excuse for the amount of time I’ve spent working on it. Therefore, I’m delivering a long overdue article packed with imagery and rants galore.
I Thought We Were Over This
Attention: Leesburg, Ashburn, Broad Run, Sterling and all other Loudoun County towns with a huge craft beer consumer populous. Frozen glassware is not ok. I wrote an article about it here. This is one of my many soapboxes. I’ll save the trouble of naming where I got this…
Get it together. Somebody had the audacity to serve me the wrong beer (not a Brooklyn Brown from the Brooklyn Brown tap) in a frozen glass. The ice shards say it all. You picked the wrong dude to serve this to. Help me damnit. I’m actually searching for reasons to frequent your establishments.
Come Get Some, Baby
The beer tastings have gone well over at Ashburn Wine Shop. I thoroughly enjoy managing them and I believe a few people are managing to squeeze some value out of it. That was a play on words, did you catch it? Needless to say, I need more ideas for beer tastings. That was another play on words, please pay attention. Last week we did a nutty ale tasting…
We’re going to do a Great Lakes Brewing Co. tasting in the near future (never had their beer but I hear great things). We also have plans to spice it up in some other ways. Oh, you haven’t come to a tasting yet? Get you’re a$$ out to Ashburn Wine Shop, on Thursday, from 5:30-8 PM. Chuck asked me something that I didn’t know the answer to last week. This made me feel the white-hot light and squirm a little. I challenge you to do the same.
Lets Get Nutty, Again
My good buddy John Beuker also works at Vintage 50. He got a homebrewing kit for Christmas. I’m taking his innate interest in brewing beer and throwing some veritable brewing knowledge-roids into the mix. I’m going to check out his system tomorrow night, we’re going to devise a plan, rebuild as necessary to go all grain, and brew a Nutty Bitter Professor Ale next week. I’m glowing with beer geekery at the moment. The best part is that we’ll document the whole thing right here.
Put Your Pants Back On
I’m shocked you’re still reading at this point… Since I still have your attention, allow me to take this time to acknowledge nothing that is currently going on in the beer world and give you a funny image instead:
Buy the poster here
Well, That Was Weird
Yeah, that was a tad weird. This article is sort of the preliminary article to the major preliminary article, or the unofficial prequel to a three part series? I don’t know what to say. You will just have to keep your eyes peeled for the next one, which will be a goody. I’m sorry this article wasn’t what you’d hoped it would be, I just wanted to be friends all along anyway.
Will I See You Again?
Like I said, I’m busy working on some really important stuff. You should see other blogs in the meantime; it’ll work out better that way. I’m going to post some links of my favorite beer and comic blogs to get you started.
I’ll always be here for you, but this project is really big. If I haven’t delivered another post by Friday night, 8:00 PM, I give you the right to kick me in the nuts. How is that for commitment?