beernesday

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s day than to wax poetic about my love for the craft beer community?   It’s very true, I do love beer and the beer community, and I enjoy getting to share that love with everyone!   I speak often about how the beer community rallies around its members – such as brewers sharing ingredients when one brewery runs out, or when established breweries collaborate with newer breweries to help them jumpstart their entry into the marketplace.  With the many charity initiatives the industry undertakes, plus the economic and social benefits of having a strong craft brewing presence, it’s very easy to be a craft beer cheerleader! Today I want to really shine a light on just how much the beer community is a community, and how that benefits the community at large.  Wow, I just said the word community a lot in that sentence!  But I think in these interesting times in which we find ourselves, it is more important than e...

  new from bomber brewing, the choqlette porter is the perfect fall beer deep, dark and delicious oh, and chocolatey!          BOMBER BREWING'S NEW SEASONAL IS A LOVE LETTER IN A BOTTLE CHOQLETTE PORTER: a beer lover pays homage to his wife by taking one of her favourite things - chocolate - and marrying it to one of his own.  And while the bottle's l label denotes cherished pets and personal mementos, his real gift to her is inside:  three chocolate additions - chocolate malt, cocoa powder in the mash, and cocoa nibs in the fermentor - make this roasty, easy-drinking porter über chocolatey. It's a declaration not only to her, but to chocolate aficionados and porter drinkers alike: prospective lovers, don't write poetry - bottle up your love ! About Choqlette Porter: ...

for no good reason at all, except that it's st. patrick's day weekend coming up:

i really love beer! and i keep getting love back

stolen from craftbeer.com stolen from facebook stolen from kegworks 

camra (the uk version) and brewdog are squaring off about the great britain beer festival and who should be allowed to attend brewdog accuses camra of dirty dealings in contract reneging camra cancels brewdog's bar at gbbf alleging failure to pay and follow contract who wins?  no one who likes craft beer who loses?  camra loses the younger generation as potential members, brewdog loses a marketing opportunity, gbbf ticket holders lose the chance to enjoy brewdog brews why can't we all just love beer and each other?

i heart beer! photo credit:  tasha hitchon