I was staring at the beer fridge Friday and spied a forgotten bottle from the beer trade with 45er. Yea! I still had a couple of those Texas beers, so Rahr & Sons Stormcloud IPA became my choice for some end of the work week relaxation.

Storm…

No, you didn’t stumble on to some alien clone of these Musings. Circumstances just decreed that I forgo two of my favorite “flavors” at lunch yesterday. On Friday, we had a lunchtime cookout at work to honor two employees who were leaving for greener p…

Press Release from the brewery:

CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE BREWING COMPANY WELCOMES

MIKE KILLELEA AS HEAD BREWER

Ashland, Virginia, August
17th: Center of the Universe Brewing Company is proud to announce that Mike
Killelea has accepted the position…

The increasing availability of canned craft beer is a boon for those wanting to enjoy their favorite beer in the great outdoors. Cans are lighter to carry than bottles and much more durable. Now the folks at Pat’s Backcountry Beverages are claiming to …

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H/T I Waste So Much Time.
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Remember that scene from “The Jerk” when Navin R. Johnson gets excited over the arrival of the new phone book? He exclaims “The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!”

Well the craft beer world had its own Navin R. Johnson moment this week….

Bottle Cap Blues from chris sumers on Vimeo.

H/T Evaluation.

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Roaming the Planet took a weekend tour of Virginia’s Brew Ridge Trail. They gave a detailed, and enticing report in “Hopping along the Brew Ridge Trail.”

In the Blue Ridge Mountains, everything seems to be found along a well-organized trail. The Wine …

In a recent thread on the Virginia IDPA mailing list someone commented about placing an ammunition order with a popular vendor. The thread quickly morphed, or rather degenerated, into a discussion of why people did or did not reload their own…

We met a couple of friends for dinner Friday evening at J. Brian’s Tap Room in downtown Fredericksburg. J. Brian’s is one of the older, if not the oldest, good beer pubs in town. They served good craft beers before other local establishments did, and w…