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2013 Hop City Homebrewing Competition

Following up last year's success with our Darth Earnhardt Espresso Milk Stout, the Brewdega crew is proud to announce that we've landed three top placements in this year's style categories!

Two in the Funk, 8.4% - A 95 IBU IPA 100% fermented with a house blend of Brettanomyces strains. - 3rd Place (IPA)

Pumkang, 8.7% - This pumpkin ale is the second iteration of one of our first home brews. - 2nd Place (Spiced Beer)

Agent Cooper, 7.3% - An old ale with locally-sourced black cherries and toasted figs which was aged on port wine-soaked oak for two months. - 2nd Place (Fruit Beer)

It's great to receive such positive feedback and we look forward to participating again next year.

#hop city #home brew #competition #two in the funk #pumkang #agent cooper

Darth Earnhardt - The Rumspire Strikes Back. A high-octane coffee milk stout aged on Appleton rum soaked wood chips and vanilla beans featuring coffee from @PonceCityGoats

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Today we kegged a special edition of Darth Earnhardt - our espresso milk stout - for Steven and Rebecca's wedding.

What's special about this batch? We aged it on maple whisky.

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Choco-Rye-No: Chocolate Rye Lager.

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Granny's Raisin Ale!: Oatmeal Raisin Brown Ale.

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Brewnanigans

We’ve been pretty busy lately with some new experimental homebrews. We’ve got a low abv chocolatey rye porter in the primary, a 12.5% abv wheatwine in the secondary that we look forward to aging on some orange liqueur-soaked oak, and we’ve been getting funky with an all brett IPA that is set to be dry hopped. On top of these, we recently finished up Granny’s Raisin Ale, an oatmeal raisin cookie-like brown ale with half the batch aged on Appleton 12 soaked oak, and tweaked our staple brew, Cinnamon Toast Crunk, again. Recently, one of our own ventured to San Diego to check out the beer scene. He met some awesome folks and tasted some fresh brews at Ballast Point, Port/Lost Abbey, Stone Brewing and Coronado. Check out some photos! On a final note, we recently did a bit of celebrating at the infamous Brick Store Pub for Tacos & Bells and their annual Yard Sale Breakfast. We also ventured down to Hampton, GA to visit the nice folks over at Jailhouse Brewing Company. Not only do they make some tasty beers but they are gracious hosts as well. Whether you’re local or in town for a visit, please be sure to check them out and tell them that Brewdega sent ya’.

#home brew #san diego #ashley #brewery #brick store #jailhouse

What good is a great cellaring app if you don’t have a slick, user-friendly and intuitive UI to navigate it? Well, it's almost done but we are continually tweaking and refining it while we discover what works and, well...what doesn’t. Remember that it’s a work-in-progress but here’s a sneak peek...

#cellar #UI #user interface #design

UPDATE: Hop City Home Brew Competition

Sadly, our espresso milk stout, Darth Earnhardt, didn’t score us a win, but it did land us in the upper echelon of the top 25 out of 100+ beers in the Hop City home brew competition. We’re still really proud of the outcome and we're looking forward to incorporating all of the judges' feedback into our next batch.

#darth earnhardt #home brew #hop city

The Beer Lives Up to the Label

We are extremely excited to announce that Darth Earnhardt has found it's way into round two of the Hop City Craft Beer & Wine Homebrew Competition. Our espresso milk stout was one of twenty-five entries chosen, out of over one hundred, to advance to the second round of this three round competition. We are stoked to see what round two holds, and wish everyone the best of luck.

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February Update

We figured it’s time again to bring you a few tidbits of news as we continue to push forward with the development of Cellar. We’re not just drinking and brewing, ya’ know. We’re diligently tolling away at bringing something new to the craft brew experience.

As mentioned last month, we recently hit the road for both Codemash and the Sexual Chocolate release at Foothills Brewing. We had a great time attending both events and really enjoyed interacting with people who are genuinely excited about our product. We received some great feedback about the app from both a developer and an end user perspective. We look forward to integrating these suggestions into the design as we continue to move forward, our current areas of focus being refining the user interface and expanding our search functionality. We realize that we have yet to reveal much of what Cellar will have to offer, but we are striving to build a product from which you will all equally enjoy and benefit. That being said, we encourage you to ask questions, make suggestions and offer feedback so that we can create the best beer cellaring app available. Feel free to contact us by email or connect with us through social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and, of course, Tumblr.

#cellar #codemash #foothills #sexual chocolate #feedback