Bells, Toppling Goliath, Russian River, and Surly made the Final Pour, it’s up to you to decide who makes it to the championship of BEERacketology. Four breweries are left standing just weeks months after the start of our inaugural BEERacketology…thing… And here they are: THE FAVORITE: #1 seed Bells Brewery out of The Krakken region. THE [...]
Here we are, down to just EIGHT BREWERIES vying for the right to be named the 2012 Brewmaniacs BEERacketology Champion. This round, we’ve done yet again something different, we hit up a podcast. Morehouse, MetsFanVI, Flenker, and I (Spank) sat down Sunday night to talk a bit about the brackets and the beers. We talk [...]
MetsFanVI breaks down The Krakken Regional… It’s time to cast your votes in the first round of The Krakken regional. Before we get to the pairings, a little history. The Krakken was a beer I brewed almost three years ago now. Sparky wanted to learn how to make beer so we brewed a Bell’s Two [...]
Alright, the weather here has been unseasonably warm. That’s putting it lightly. I’ve brewed outside on three different occasions over the last month. Ridiculous. But this morning, I swear it snowed! Sure, it’ll be near 50 tomorrow. And above freezing right now. But the flurries in the morning where inspiring enough for me to open [...]
So Morehouse calls it his Bukowski of Justice, while Flenker and MetsFanVI have theirs sitting in cardboard boxes in closets and basements. I’m talking about the place you store your beer. Most people just have it in their regular fridge. Some obsessed people have a fridge solely dedicated to beer. And, of course, you have [...]
It’s craft time using craft beer!! Super fun and manly right?! Well, yes, actually is pretty manly and (as much as it pains me to admit it) very fun. How did this come about? Welp, I’ll tell you… So my wife is a frequenter of this site called Pinterest.com – it’s like a virtual pinboard [...]
Yeah we are big timing it now. We did a podcast. It’s probably the best podcast you will ever listen to, ever. Ever. Except the opposite. But please don’t turn it off after 3 minutes… get to at least 5 minutes in to make us feel better. [...]
I realize this is short notice but tomorrow, September 30, Red’s Alehouse in North Liberty, IA is hosting a Bell’s Tap Takeover. Here’s the official info from Red’s It’s time to take a sick day, everyone. Call the boss, fake a cough, and come to Reds…we’ve got a lot of beer for you to drink! [...]
Keeping with The Highlander theme, now it ends. Yesterday we asked you which brewery you’d pick if you could only drink the beer from a single brewery. Call it your desert island brewer, if you will. Votes were tabulated by counting comments on yesterday’s blog post and votes over on the official Brew Maniacs Facebook [...]
Once again, Bell’s Brewery shows it’s the little things that make a difference. From their practice of putting easily readable bottled-on dates on their bottles comes the next iteration of education the beer consumer. Their new beer calendar. Now lots of breweries will put their beer release schedule on the web, but this is the [...]
This past Saturday, Cityview held their 5th annual Brewfest in Des Moines, at Principal Park. While none of your fine Brewmaniacs were able to attend, friend of the blog PlannedSickDays was there and was kind enough to put down his thoughts for us to share. PSD also has a great Hawkeye blog, check it out [...]
Later this month Bell’s Brewery is going to start date-stamping their bottles with the date the beer was bottled. This is becoming more common among brewers an I applaud Bell’s decision to do so. Currently they put a batch code on the bottle which you can look up on their web site to learn when [...]
