A few links to get you to Happy Hour.
– The first is to my own post about Flying Dog Kerberos, because it’s a tripel and those are the sorts of beers Brew Like a Monk is about. Flying Dog recently shipped bloggers a package with the new beer plus others in the Canis Major Series (since they’ll be available in a mixed 4-pack) and World Beer Cup medaling beers so you might want to look for varying opinions at rsbs (just search for Kerberos).
You might call Kerberos a different sort of collaboration. About the time last fall Flying Dog was releasing its Open Source Doppelbock brewers in Denver — this was before operations moved to Maryland — began making test batches of Kerberos. The doppelbock recipe was based on input from Internet visitors and tweaked through the discussion. For the Kerberos, each brewer came up with a recipe that was brewed on the pilot system. The final recipe came from that.
– The Champagne of Blogs has a wonderful recap of FredFest — photos, facts and just plain good reading.
– The Sun, the UK’s largest tabloid, is getting into the beer business, including a cask ale under the Sun brand. Rupert Murdoch and real ale should scare us a little.
Pete Brown has questions.
Will it be shit beer because most things The Sun does tend to be lowest common denominator? Or given that what they do, they do well (Sun journalism is actually very skilful), will they produce something that’s accessible, but decent quality?
He’s even created a poll.
All interesting, but what I need to know is how to get included on this bloggers beer mailing list.
Well, nobody will be sending us beer for the next 15 months. That opens some up.