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Word has been spread about a pretty cool achievement in drink local as the first 100% Walloon Gueuze was blended at Geuezerie Tilquin. This first blend is composed of fully organic Lambics brewed at Tilquin over the previous 3 brewing seasons. The blend is made up of 50% one-year-old lambics, 25% 2-year-old lambics, and 25% 3-year-old lambics.
It seems like famed San Francisco craft beer bar, the Toronado might be sold to a tech bro / crypto clod with the hilarious name of Orion Parrott.
I have only visited the bar once and truthfully did not cotton to the vibe and felt like I was intruding on someone else’s patch. But I am in the minority on that and I cannot imagine a scenario that Parrott’s version somehow does the bare minimum of keeping it as previous owner Dave Keene did let alone build on the tremendous goodwill and brand that was built, tap by tap.
Read the story HERE and join me in seeing how this plays out.
I cannot remember the last time I had a Moosehead beer, but any brewery that brilliantly markets a “Presidential Pack” of 1,461 cans of Moosehead so you can swig a beer for every day of Trump’s second term as president deserves a second look. The brewery made and sold five, then ten and could probably sell even more. Elbows Up, indeed.
Well, all you FAFOs out there. President Musk is going after craft beer starting with USDA hop researchers in the Pacific NorthWest. Some people seem to think that government jobs are too costly and in the short run, yeah, they fucking are because this isn’t a short term game. We don’t shut down lighthouses because they only help some boats. We don’t cut funding to air traffic control, oh wait, apparently this is something this backwards country does.
The 2025 Craft Beer Hall of Fame Inductees for the first class have been announced and it is a solid start to build upon…
* Fritz Maytag – Anchor Steam
* Michael Jackson – beer writer
* Charlie Papazian – home brewer and GABF founder
* Ken Grossman – Sierra Nevada
* Jim Koch – Boston Beer
* Fred Eckhardt – beer writer
* Bert Grant – Grants Les
* Charles and Rose Ann Finkel – beer importers
* Jack McAuliffe, Suzy Stern and Jane Zimmerman – New Albion
I am hoping that the second round will dig a little deeper into the agricultural side and also the publican side as well.
You can view the replay of the ceremony HERE
Eagle eyed readers of the blog will know that I am not a big fan of baseball. But if I do watch it is minor league because they seem more fun.
And here is a prime example…
…The Reading, Pennsylvania franchise will change over to the Reading Prost for a few games next year. I can see beer fans buying the hat for sure.
Merry and Pippen. Sorry, let me start again. Billy & Dom and their travel / food program, Eat the World stopped off in Santa Monica and went through the brewing process of the Westside (not Middle Earth) brewery.
Santa Monica Brew Works is in the California section aka episode three but the series is not yet streaming here in the U.S. but keep checking for when it does.
A much happier inauguration is coming on Saturday, February 15th, at 12:00pm (PST), when the American Craft Beer Hall of Fame will be announcing its inaugural Inductees into The newly created Hall.
Here is How to Watch:
“The livestream will be available free of charge and can be accessed live online HERE, or recorded following the event on the Craft Beer Professionals YouTube page.
Who will be the first enshrined?
American breweries have done nationwide charity beers but maybe the next evolution as craft beer goes back to basics is for a nationwide Zoigl.
Interested to see if you are near one or do you need to know more of this Z word. Then head HERE first Then follow AmericanZoigl on Instagram for updates.
Over the latter half of 2024, I have been checking Instagram because of the curious case of the account for Monkish Brewing in Echo Park (see below).
I looked again at the start of the new year and still no activity at all. Perhaps a hoax? Not an official account? Sheer hopefulness and jumping the gun?
Rest assured that if anything does come to pass, there will be a post about it unless Project 2025 and their neo-prohibition nazi goons take away my right to blog about beer. (that went from positive to dark quick, didn’t it?)