So big that Popular Mechanics just wrote a really excellent article ranking and reviewing the top 17 celebrity beers. Yes that Popular Mechanics. And Yes they reviewed and ranked each one. 17 Celebrity Beers Ranked from Rockin’ to Rotten Can celebrities brew? Well, yes. The question is whether you’ll want to drink the results. We’re […]
I mean it literally. How do you know what customers want? When those poor, mistaken souls weakly blather that you simply mustgive customers what they want, how do they determine what it is precisely that customers want? Clearly they don’t ask them, at least not all of them. Here are some ways I could think of […]
According to FoodBev Media Ball Corporation is having a ball debuting some pretty sweet new colors, finishes and treatments for beer cans. One of those new colors is called Day Glo. Ball’s Day Glo technology can allow for brighter designs to stand out in foodservice environments such as bars and pubs. Day Glo brings a […]
Can you really write a hardcover book that successfully answers the question: Where in the World Should I drink Beer? Well this books attempts just that with some hits and some misses. According to the author: Where to Drink Beer is the ultimate guide by the real experts – 500 of the world’s most revered brewers […]
During the gold rush, it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business. Mark Twain Or so the conventional wisdom goes. But several very troubling no warning closures over the last 12 months of the ‘pick and shovel’ vendors of the craft beer gold rush, the brewery equipment manufacturers, has seemingly tossed […]
As a Coffee Geek I know that coffee capsule machines like the K-Cup and their ilk make ridiculously bad coffee at stratospherically high prices and with earth crushing amounts of waste. (trifecta achieved). As a Beer Geek I know that beer capsule machines like the… … WAIT WTF? a Beer capsule machine? Yeap Consumer juggernaut […]
Trademarks are serious business. Trademarks in consumer products like beer are even more serious. Getting it right can mean raging success. Getting it wrong can mean your cult beer that is driving your growth can embroil your brewery in a gut wrenching trademark dispute with Cease and Desist letters covering every surface. A recent article […]
Craft Beer has always been a very giving and open industry with breweries helping each other with ingredients, equipment, processes and almost anything else. And the brewing industry is rife with collaboration beers brewed by 2 or more breweries. But seldom do we get something as national and timely as what Sierra Nevada is doing […]
Ok, so I have kids. A few of them. Ok, a lot of them. And I like beer. And I admit that while maybe I’m not as cliche as the hipster with a waxed mustache and a dog who visit a brewery, I am the other stereotype of a 40 year old ‘cool dad’ who […]
It used to be pretty hard to really show people what the San Diego beer scene meant. Sure, you could have them take a taxi out to Miramar and visit a few establishments. But in 2016, there a couple ‘scenes’ that are making bold statements about what San Diego and its craft beer community are […]
