Best Beer Name: Lights Out Holiday Ale, Blue Mountain. It's a high ABV winter ale. Embarrassing incidents are sure to ensue.
Best Story behind the name: Starr Hill, The Love. The website has this story from the founder; "A friend of mine would smuggle wheat-beer yeast back from a brewery in Germany, and he won the National Home Brewers' Competition one year with this yeast he'd smuggled. I asked him if he would 'share the love' and let us borrow the yeast, and 10 years later he finally did." Good story, and it's not a bad beer either.
Best Beer Concept: Imperial Lager, Roanoake Railhouse. It's a German style helles-bock with a more American hop aroma and higher alcohol (7.8% ABV.)
Best Overall Beer Selection: Williamsburg AleWorks. Their year round selections are pretty standard, but comprehensive. And their reserve beers caught my eye. A barleywine and a bourbon barreled porter.
Best Brewery Logo: Lost Rhino Brewing. It was a close call between two breweries using surfboards (Beach and Lost Rhino), but put a surfboard on a Rhino's back and you've won me over.
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| http://www.lostrhino.com/ |
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| http://oconnorbrewing.com/beers.html |
Most Likely Label Art to Get a Brewery Sued: Tripel Dubbel, Black Couch Brewery. It is exactly like the old 76ers logo. I emailed the brewery about the logo and got no response, so I have no problems putting it here. I'm no lawyer, but I would expect that they would have a hard time using this one without some legal issues.
Tripel Dubbel logo from Black Couch's Website. 76ers pic from http://logo-collections.blogspot.com
Most Pandering Brewery: Holy Brew. You're not fooling me with that light, corn based beer b.s. I've said it once and I'll say it again, there is a time and place for junk beer. But I will not be paying craft beer prices for the privilege of drinking a "Heavenly" copy of Bud Light.This months winner for best search term that led to my site:
"Tony Tarasco and his personal life." This term is the very reason I started this blog. So that people would have a place on the web that they could go to for details of Tony Tarasco's off-the-field life. If you don't know who Tony Tarasco is, he is a former Baltimore Oriole and a key figure (along with 12 year old Jefferey Maier) in one of my worst childhood memories. I couldn't find the video, but here's picture proof. Check out my Maryland post for more details.
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| Picture from SI.Com. Tarasco was camped under that pop up! |
Best URL that led to my site:
http://www.whpcanada.org.au/introduction.shtml - Canadian government website about a program that allows Australians to travel and work in Canada for up to two years. I don't see a single add on their site, so I have no idea how someone went from there to here. Sometimes I don't believe Google's analytics. This is one of those times.I'll put the Virginia Brewery Map up separately.
hahha I am cracking up. I love that tony Tarasco's personal life search term led someone to your awesome blog. I went back to that Maryland post because it killed me the first time I read it, and just read it aloud to Bert and we are both cracking up now.
ReplyDelete"Get me in the bar, and I'm trouble - last week, went on a craft brewery crawl and got fucked up on Tripel Dubbel" - Ice Cube, during a recent trip to Virginia (probably)
ReplyDeleteGotta say, if Ice Cube was going to choose to endorse a beer, doing it this way would do infinitely more for his street cred than those terrible Coors Light commercials.
Awesome logos for these beers. The 76ers one is a clear ripoff, but as king of all lawyers, I will make an exception within the law for this out of respect to Clarence Weatherspoon, Shawn Bradley, and the few other 76ers I can remember from the era after I started following the NBA but before they changed their uniforms/the Allen Iverson era.
ReplyDeleteThe "Tony Tarasco and his personal life" is hilarious. The addition of the Google Analytics section is awesome - I am always fascinated by what leads to the site and your write-ups crack me up.
Duffy dropping rhymes and dropping (law) knowledge. Beautiful. Early 90's gangsters were so introspective.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfbGGZE07M
I am going to have to get back into doing this blog, for the simple fact that you continue to comment on posts.