Filed under: Tastings, Beer, Festivals "I have a quote for you," said Green Flash Brewing Co.'s Brewmaster, Chuck Silva. And when the man who hand-crafted one of your favorite beers in the world tells you he has a quote, you listen. "The harder you work, the luckier you are," said Chuck in response ...

On Saturday, whilst craning my neck to see the Blazer game from a poorly-situated boot at the Laurelwood, I sipped "Arctic Apocalypse," Chad Kennedy's black imperial IPA. As he promised, it tasted more or less like a regular imperial IPA, though the dark malt(s) added what I'd call a malt-o-meal not...

The Baltimore Sun’s Rob Kasper asks for people’s nominees for 2008 beer of the year, with Rob staying local and suggesting Clipper City Winter Storm, Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter and Brewer’s Art Resurrection. For me it’s Goose Island’s Bourbon County Brand Stout. H...

What a result for the team that Guy Murphy called the "digital misfits". It was a good description of a rag-tag team and I mean that in a good way. I deliberately choose people who don't fit neatly, people who......

“Integrated Communications are like weapons of mass destruction. Everyone knows they exist but no one has ever seen it done� David Jones, writing in Contagious Magazine (Is your work Spongeworthy?) “My role isn’t to do players’ jobs for them. My job is to ensure that every player performs ...

so if once is an incidence, twice is a co-incidence and three times is a theory, then I reckon we have a hypothesis on our hands.  I've now noticed three brands of late directly asking users to create adverts for them on the brands terms. the first and loosest brief came from Ann Summers (above...

The BBC documentary How The Edwardians Spoke presents audio recordings of English speakers from various dialect areas, made in 1917: German dialectologists and sound recording specialists of the time travelled around the German prisoner-of-war camps to record samples of foreign dialects. These are u...

“Dude, have you tried Brand X Quintuple IPA? It’s EXTREME!” - Extreme Beer Punk #1 This is the part where I commit beer blasphemy: I think most IPAs suck. It’s not that I dislike hoppy beer. On the contrary, there are many well-hopped beers that I enjoy immensely (most notabl...