Category: Beer Gear

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33 Fresh Hops


With hop harvesting probably winding down. Thanks hot summer for speeding up the process! It is time to drink up those freshies. And to put them into your journal, your green journal as 33 Bottles of Beer Fresh Hop Edition beer journal is printed in green ink with green staples.

This is a limited edition beer ticker book that also is perfect for other Non-West-Coast IPA’s. Your haze, lactose, glitter IPA for example.

Descriptors are IPA-centric with ‘dank,’ ‘herbal/grassy,’ ‘citrus,’ ‘floral,’ and even ‘vegetal,’ to help you hone in on what you are tasting.

The fresh hop edition is available now for $5 each.

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Merch Table

If you have sweated out or spilled beer on your beer t-shirts, maybe it is time to throw out the old and online order the new.

Here are two shirts that I think are cool…

You can find it HERE

You can go Dodger Blue by hitting this LINK

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Do We Need This? Beer Foaming Mug

So my latest beer party was a bust because the beer wasn’t foamy enough, said no one ever. But apparently it is a major problem. Enough for a food grade plastic solution!

For a mere $21.99 plus tax and shipping/handling you can get a beer foaming mugh. Whoops. Freudian typing slip mixing mug with ugh.

Why they don’t have a tulip glass, pilsner glass and stange style available is beyond me. And how long until that cheap yellow clicker gets broken?

SO NOT NEEDED!

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Look at the Bottom

I confess that I am one of those single can/bottle buyers. As with books, I don’t have time in this lifetime to buy a case and then drink it within the best by time frame. But, Brouwerij West may convince me to do otherwise. Not only are their cans a fabulous palette for design, the bottom of the case trays are too!

Now you can drink one of their hazy IPA’s or a Popfuji and then send a postcard once the can is empty.

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Spontaneous Shirt


I saw this posted somewhere on Facebook and instead of just liking it, I thought to myself that this would be a great shirt for all the L.A. breweries that have coolships to add to the Brewers Guild merch choices. Or maybe Hopped LA can add it to their roster.

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VendMo

Pardon the grainy photo with the dog ear visible, I cribbed it from the recent Beer Advocate quarterly to add to my growing list of good ideas, that I wish would be done in Los Angeles…..

A vending machine filled with beers but you don’t know what you gonna’ get. What a great way to promote lesser explored beers, breweries and styles. And the random nature of it would make this so fun.

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A Beer & A Podcast – Punch up the Jam


If you want to deep dive analyze a song, oh and you would like to do it with lots of humor and with two good friends with great rapport, well then Punch Up the Jam.

Miel Bredouw & Demi Adejuyigbe are your hosts and they are funny as hell. The only issue with this podcast is that you WILL have the songs stuck in your head. The format is simple. The duo pores over each song. Sometimes line by line. Sometimes you get to hear the isolated lyrics or other instrumentation. Once the song is over, they do their “punched up” version. Then you get song recommendations at the end.

Past songs that I highly recommend are:
Doobie Bros. – What a Fool Believes
Guns & Roses – Welcome to the Jungle
The Cure – Friday I’m in Love

Boulevard The Jam would be and excellent choice to drink while listening or you can grab one of the Dogfish Head music series. On a local note, if on tap, Mumford Brewing usually has an IPA with music connections or they may even have their Saison du Miel, a honey saison.

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Box or Cooler

It’s both!

Dogfish Head has a new Off-Center Your Summer Pack. It has water-resistant packaging that allows you to convert into a cooler simply by tossing ice in. The variety includes 60 Minute IPA, SeaQuench Ale, Lupu-Luau IPA and Namaste White. 3 of each.

I wonder what these are made from or coated with to keep them stable?

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You BrewDog


For those home brewers out there who like to compare their work to the pros or who like BrewDog beers but can’t get them. Now you can with 63 of BrewDog’s recipes.

“A decade in the making, DIY Dog was one of the best things we have ever done. Every single BrewDog recipe released, for free, to the global homebrewing community who have supported us since we began all those years ago. Hundreds of prospective brewdays, laid out in black and white. Just add malt, hops, water and yeast. But time moves on. Luckily so do we.”