Queer Beers: On LGBT Representation in Craft Beer

Alright, so at the time of writing this I just finished up a kinda-sorta twitter conversation that I want to elaborate on in this site. LGBT representation. I do know that there are a handful of LGBT folks in the craft beer community, but as a bisexual fan of beer I’d like to see something…

Ben & Ben Paint With Guinness at SDCC

Love this. at 11am-1pm at San Diego Comic Con Artist Ben Templesmith and writer Ben McCool will be doing a signing/selling of their amazing trade for CHOKER as well as selling the above print for $30, limited to 25 copies and available only at SDCC. There’s a nice twist though. As McCool says: “What’s more,…

Birthday Wish: GRANTED

So remember when I put the Brooklyn Box Set from the Brooklyn Brewery on my Wish List? Welp, for my Birthday I got it. HUGE thanks to my parents for purchasing it, Melissa “Glukkake” Dowell for picking it up at the Brooklyn Brewery’s store and to the wonderful fella Alan Tyson for picking it up and…

Wish List: The Brooklyn Box Set

Today the Brooklyn Brewery just announced the release of the Brooklyn Box Set, which, at $80 includes a copy of the large and detailed book The Oxford Companion to Beer and a 750ml bottle of the Brewmaster’s Reserve “wheat wine” called “The Companion” (Take a moment to make a few Doctor Who jokes now if…

Wish List: The Very Very Many Varieties of Beer

The people at Pop Chart Lab came up with this little beauty.. The world’s most comprehensive beer taxonomy is now bigger and better. This new design features 89 varieties of beer with over 200 representative quaffs, including glassware recommendations for each variety, and covers six square feet with beer-soaked goodness. Thanks to my friend Roo…

Wish List: Abstrakt Beer

My friend and fellow beer/metal enthusiast Alastair messaged me to tell me his brew plans for Friday night and linked me to this little beauty: That’s right.  It’s a Belgian Imperial Stout aged on toasted coconut and cacao.  Created by the bloody GENIUSES at BrewDog as part of a concept series they are putting out in…