The Layman's Guide to Beer

Good Beer For All

[laymansbeer]

Saugatuck Brewing (a personal favorite of mine) posted a wonderful joke response to Budweiser's weird renaming thing.

“We're very proud to introduce our brand new name and packaging, along with the assurance that all of our beer is brewed under the careful watch of 1,776 Bald Eagles.”

via Facebook

[theheavymetalmama]

“Only hipsters drink craft beer!”

“That’s a good fucking beer.” ~Stone Cold

[laymansbeer]

This is the best thing.

For background, the brewery is El Segundo Brewing Co and the beer is Broken Skull IPA.

[laymansbeer]

Im done.

[laymansbeer]

[laymansbeer]

5 Rabbit Brewing is bottling a limited quantity of their Chinga Tu Pelo protest beer. The labels, posters, and stickers were designed by yours truly and I couldn’t be more pleased with how they turned out.

Expect a few updates tomorrow afternoon and come by the 5 Rabbit brewery any time after 2pm to hang out and snag some sweet swag.

[liquidbreadblog]

History of the saison.

[craftbastards]

Salted Caramel Brownie Brown Ale (New Belgium / Ben & Jerry’s)

Brewery : New Belgium / Ben & Jerry’s Beer : Salted Caramel Brownie Brown Ale Style : Brown Ale / American Brown Ale Variance : Brewed with Cocoa and Vanilla Powder

8 / 10

There’s nothing better than beer being drank for a good cause. These two powerhouses brewed this beer to help Protect Our Winters combat climate change. For those of you who don’t know what climate change is, you are probably republican so let me explain (I still love you all I promise). Climate change is when you have a bunch of old men in congress who bring snowballs in as a fucking show and tell items and try and say that super cold winters dispel global warming. Those people are also fucking idiots but once the world heats up a few more degrees and we’re all living on rafts, I’ll be sure to grab one of these and float around on a tube like I’m in the world’s largest lazy river. I got a little off track there, sorry. Anyways, this is a pretty delicious beer from New Belgium and my only real knock on this brew is that the ice cream created in collaboration definitely edges this one out on the scrumptious-ness. It starts with a a chocolaty borderline coffee bitterness before a nice vanilla sweetness joins in towards the middle before just mellowing and leaving you with a nice dessert like finish. I’m glad I got my hands on this because it really is an interesting take on a style that so many breweries either under flavor or downright abuse like Heath Ledger’s blood stream after a long night with a bag of pills. This is a good pickup for the craft aficionados and fans of the style and as for the newbies, this is a great way to get into better beer and also support a great cause at the same time. Cheers!

Written by: Steve B.

[laymansbeer]

I was so pleasantly surprised by this beer when I had it in their multi-packs. I expected sickly sweetness and instead got a deliciously crisp brown ale. Now I just need to get my hands on the ice cream half of the collab.

[beeranyone]

Some cool beer label concepts by barrettbiggers

[craftbeerlibrary]

I’m sure Disney would flip over these…

[brooklynbrewery]

What is “bad beer”? It’s not just beer you don’t personally like. It’s..

“Seriously under-attenuated beers that taste like wort. Diacetyl-laden butter bombs. Flat-tasting beers with muted flavors from using the wrong brewing water. Sour beers that taste like sweaty vinegar, and sour beers that weren’t meant to be sour. Medicinal-tasting Belgians. The unbalanced, train wreck, kitchen-sink beers with so much stuff that you can’t discern one flavor from another.”

[daileycrafton]

Glorious Beer! Taking pre-orders for this beauty now. Visit http://lockstepstudio.com/beerposter/ to git yers.

[laymansbeer]

This is awesome.

[did-you-know]

Battle is (reportedly) “amazingly finicky on stupid things that don’t really achieve any government purpose. He’s implementing rules that are totally antiquated.”

Battle has rejected a beer label for the King of Hearts, which had a playing card image on it, because the heart implied that the beer would have a health benefit.

He rejected a beer called Pickled Santa because Santa’s eyes were too “googly” on the label, and labels cannot advertise the physical effects of alcohol. (A less googly-eyed Santa was later approved.)

He rejected a beer called Bad Elf because it featured an “Elf Warning,” suggesting that elves not operate toy-making machinery while drinking the ale. The label was not approved on the grounds that the warning was confusing to consumers.

He rejected a Danish beer label that featured a hamburger, which was turned down because the image implied there was a meat additive in the beer.

He rejected a beer that was marketed as an “India Dark Ale,” because it implied the beer was made in India (even though the label had a line with the words “Product of Denmark”).

He rejected a beer that called itself a “heart-warming ale,” because this supposedly involved a medical claim.

He also might reject your label if you address him as "Mr. Martin” instead of “Battle.”

Source

[brooklynbrewery]

Insulated Dark Lager: great for any weather (or campy weather approximation) from November to March. 

[brooklynbrewery]

Craft beer advent calendar? Don’t mind if we do.  (Get yours: http://www.craftbeeradventcalendar.co.uk/) 

[bobbycaputo]

The Ultimate Brewery Road Trip, Routed Algorithmically

Who’s coming with me?!?

[laymansbeer]

#quittingmyjob #buyingawinnebago

[roadsandkingdoms]

Brewers in Hong Kong and Beijing are creating distinctively Chinese beers unlike anything else in the world

[beerlabelsinmotion]

Roadsmary’s Baby

I immediately fell in love with Roadsmary’s Baby, a pumpkin beer brewed by Two Roads Brewing Co. from Stratford, CT. In my opinion, this beer is the definition of a perfect pumpkin beer. If you’re a fan of pumpkin beers, definitely seek this out. And if you’re not a fan of pumpkin beers, maybe this one will change your mind!

[laymansbeer]

Fallout Beer to be released by Carlsberg in the UK

Carlsberg has announced a Fallout themed beer made in collaboration with Bethesda Softworks, promoting the upcoming release of Fallout 4. It sounds rather straight forward, being a pilsner at 4% ABV, and will only be available in the UK.

As far as product tie-ins go this “Fallout Beer” is a bit unimaginative. As a huge geek who has spent the last few months immersed in Fallout 3 and New Vegas in preparation for Nov. 20, I can think of a thousand more interesting label names. I can’t imagine people not invested in (read: obsessed with) the Fallout games would be interesting in picking up a bottle of generic pilsner for double the price. Why not make it a bit more interesting? Maybe I’m asking too much of a macro brewery collaboration with a AAA gaming publisher.

I hope, given that Fallout 4 is set in Boston, we get a sly reference to a certain local brewery. While beer hasn’t really been a huge part of previous Fallout titles (Nuka-Cola taking center stage as beverage of choice) it would be pretty cool to stumble upon something alluding to a “brewer patriot” in the ruins of a facility in Jamaica Plain.