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Harpoon ufo white reddit1/28/2024 For some, if it wasn’t brewed within 50 yards of where they are sitting, they aren’t interested. One enduring question for many craft beer drinkers is, “Where is it brewed?” This is a loaded question. It was there in August that I had a chance to watch as Steve, Eileen and Eileen’s brother Peter poured the nascent beer into its fermentation bottle in hopes that months later it would serve as a small thank you for a year of inspiration and guidance. In five years he graduated from turning pre-fabricated syrup into beer on his stovetop to brewing with raw ingredients on a small, open-flame set-up on his deck that overlooks a wooded backyard in Cheshire. Steve’s hobby began with an extract kit that he lobbied for as a Father’s Day gift. They’ve just entered Maltose Express in Monroe, where the employees have walked Steve through crises small and big since he started brewing almost 10 years ago. From sitting in on the brewing to witnessing the deliveries, I had a chance to see what real appreciation looks like. They let me tag along as they handed out whimsically wrapped bottles, which they called their Jolly Good Christmas Ale. Steve and Eileen Maynard were just beginning their annual tour, visiting friends to distribute their Christmas beer. The couple with the bag of beer bottles beamed as they bounced into the hombrew store. Steve and Eileen Maynard, behind Tess Szamatulski, at Maltose Express in Monroe, Conn. Continue reading “Beer containers of the near future (a listicle)” → First of all, there’s the name (Mango Brewing keeps calls it “the sack” without much additional popularity). Marketing the bladder - it’s basically a cold temp-controlled, kidney shaped sack that you wear over your shoulder like a backpack - has been a bit of a challenge. Breweries are already road testing the bladder at bike shops from Santa Monica to San Diego. You’re trying to concentrate on what the woman with the smoky eye shadow is saying, but all the time you’re thinking, “This conversation would be going so much better if I could drink this beer, eat this food, and listen to this woman talk about ottomans, in that order.” Alas, you’re living in the present, and that’s not going to happen.Ĭlearly, you are not alone, and there’s a movement afoot to follow in the footsteps of cyclists when it comes to refreshment. In one hand you’ve got a paper plate of pasta salad and in the other… a pint of a freshly poured double IPA. You’re at a party and enjoying a great conversation. The question is: which of these will enter the regular rotation with bottles and cans and glasses? It seems as if the future of beer containers is not at all returning to tradition. Everyone loves to take them to picnics and ballgames. Everyone’s aware of their ability to economically shield beer from dreaded, skunking light. In the cyclical world of beer, it was inevitable that cans would be the popular vessel again.
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