Saint Arnold Sailing Santa

Bombers coming soon. Like Monday.

Dude, Where's My Blog

Here you go. Saint Arnold just tweeted this photo of some barrels getting filled up with Imperial Stout. Word.

Red Cross Gets Slizzerd ****UPDATED

This is funny.

UPDATE: From Flying Saucer:



Nice.

Freetail Anake - Oct. 9

These days there is so much going on in Austin it is hard to keep up with great spots like Freetail. I love Freetail and visit them every time I am down in San Antonio. Thank god for the internet:

October 9, 2010: Ananke. Wild ale aged in used wine casks for 7 months. Divinely sour. Named after the Greek Goddess of Necessity.

The reviews look good. I need to be back in Austin for Sonic Youth that night, but I may try to swing a morning mission to SA.

h/t: thatkidmar

Flying Dog SXSW Happy Hour/TX Launch of Raging Bitch

If you can not read that image:

Date: Thursday, March 18

Time: 5 pm

Location: The Flying Saucer at 815 West 37th Street in Austin, TX

Join Flying Dog's J.T. Smith for the official State of Texas launch of Raging Bitch, our 20th anniversary Belgian-style IPA. We'll also have our summer seasonal Woody Creek White Beligan Wit on tap - perfect for a warm Austin night.

For more information, visit The Flying Saucer's website, Follow The Flying Saucer on Twitter (@FlyingSaucerAus), or follow J.T. Smith on Twitter (@FlyingDogJT).

Live Oak Liberation Returning to Taps

I saw this somewhere last week on twitter. But I saw it on BA this morning and jogged my memory. Had a few pints of this when I first came to town and then it disappeared. I liked it. More than their IPA, that is for sure (hater alert!).

TwitterTasteLive: Dogfish Head

If I can get over this damn cold by tomorrow, I will be participating.

Twitter Tasting: Stouts

Another Twitter Taste LIVE event. This time around they are doing Stouts, featuring Rogue and Samuel Smith:

Join The Beer Babe (US) and Simon from Reluctant Scooper (UK) as we taste some great stouts from both the US & UK!

We will be tasting these Stouts:

Rogue
Rogue Shakespeare Stout - "Ebony in color with a rich creamy head, earthy flavor and a mellow, chocolate finish."
Rogue Chocolate Stout - "Ebony in color with a rich creamy head. The mellow flavor of oats, chocolate malts and real chocolate are balanced perfectly with the right amount of hops for a bitter-sweet finish."

Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith Imperial Stout- "Rich, flavorful, deep chocolate color, scented and roasted barley nose. Complexity of malt, hops, alcohol and yeast."
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout-"Almost opaque, with an unusually silky texture and complex, medium-dry velvet palate. Bittersweet finish."

Even though I had my complaints last time, I am planning on participating in this tasting. That is, if I am back at the casa in time. I have a previous engagement that may run long. I have never had the two Rogue stouts and I love the two S. Smith stouts, so it would be worth my "precious" time.

Twitter Taste Recap

Saturday was the Twitter Taste LIVE Beer!: Introduction to Trappist Ales. It went well I guess. I enjoyed it. It was interesting to share ideas and impressions of beer across the country, live. Though, I do not know if Twitter is the best forum for such an event. It took place as if we were chatting, but my other "twitter followers" who were not participating were getting inundated with hundreds of, to them, incoherent ramblings about beer, possibly. And I don't have that many followers. AND I was not really saying all that much, imagine the followers of the people who were chiming in every half second.

This is what some other peops thought:

Good Beer Blog:

Was it perfect? No. But within minutes of the Twitter Taste Live starting I was emailing Jay about how this needs to be integrated into each month's edition of The Session. It was, as I said, like being at a beer fest, the crowd moving around you. It is not like a quiet seat in a pub not like the lecture hall feel of an organized tasting. It was not exquisite like a food and beer pairing. All of these experiences are valid and they are different. Sitting in the family rec room on the computer as kids run around and sports are on the TV will not replicate them all. But it will mirror some aspects of those things and create new ways of thinking about what conviviality means in relation to craft beer.

ChipperDave:

There is also the anti-social aspect of using computers as a replacement for meeting up with people face to face. While Twitter will never replace the need to have actual encounters in person, it can help get you "out" there when traveling around just isn't in your interests for that point in time. I'm not advocating that we all turn into cave dwellers and drink "alone", but for those times that when all of your "friends" that you want to mingle with are scattered across the globe, Twitter at least gives you a chance to touch base and share a virtual drink.

Beer Babe:

One of my favorite things to do when at a bar or brewpub is to slide a glass around the table saying "ooh, try this!!" So to have a time when, across many different locations, people are all discussing the same bottle of beer, there are opportunities for great insights. I got great suggestions for foods to pair with the beer, other beers that I would enjoy if I was enjoying that particular beer.