Jack McAuliffe and Don Barkley share stories in the bookstore area at the Great American Beer Festival.
They are legends, so I won’t repeat what you already know. McAuliffe appeared at several events during the festival, (re)introducing the New Albion Ale that Boston Beer will distribute early next year.
And he signed Ambitious Brew along with author Maureen Ogle (that’s her in the background).
Last week, Food Republic gave a shout out to well designed beer cans. Not sure what they’d say about Dank IPA, but the can sure does make a point. The adjective in green, to the right of floral and resiny, is dank.
Dad and Dude’s Breweria sells Dank IPA, brewed under contract at Prost Brewing in Denver. The beer also has its own url and website.
Expect a few of these to be consumed in Denver this week during the Great American Beer Festival, and perhaps some will be lifted in the general direction (east) of Pete Brown.
Think you know where in the beer world this photo was taken?
As always, please leave your answer as a comment.
No, it is not reasonable to ask you to name the spot based upon this draft lineup and without any other context. My excuse is that GABF1 week is underway, and I’m going with timely rather than fair.
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99 Pours has (already) posted a complete roundup for The Session #68: Novelty Beers, one of the best organized and most educational recaps in the history of this silliness. Or perhaps I was simply dazzled by the pictures and mouseover action.
And the question was repeated, “What the heck is Mumme?”
So once again I refer you to Ron Pattinson. Here’s a post that includes a good explanation, but this one is guaranteed to make you chuckle.
When 99 Pours announced the topic for The Session #68 would be novelty beers who knew that Wynkoop Brewing would brew a beer with bull testicles? Other than brewmaster Andy Brown and master promoter Marty Jones, of course.
That was pretty much “all in” for a novelty beer.
Too bad, because I was pretty sure I had a winner, and simply because I knew the right people. A few years back for a story that appeared in American Brewer I asked Ron Pattinson and Randy Mosher to pick the ‘original” extreme beer.
Pattinson wrote back, “Well Danziger Joppenbier is hard to beat. It was around since at least the 1700s. It was like Mumme, but even weirder.” Curiously, although the beer was brewed in Danzig most of its sales were in Britain, where it was spelled Jopenbier.
Mosher, author of Radical Brewing and Tasting Beer, came up with the exact same answer. “The weirdest one I’ve run across is Danziger (Gdansk) Jopenbier, a . . . beer that started as a malt syrup at over 50°Plato (not a typo, fifty), fermented spontaneously with a variety of oxidative yeasts and possessing a lot of sherrylike qualities,” he wrote in an e-mail.
When stories about Wynkoop’s Rocky Mountain Stout went viral I saw a few tweets from people who wrote they plan to make it the first beer they try next week at the Great American Beer Festival. I, on the other hand, will be the guy looking for Jopenbier.