Archive for July, 2009

Chilly kitty
Some Aussie has a beer fridge, had friends over to watch cricket, went to get beer, followed by cat, cat gets into fridge and spends one cold, lonely night among chilled brewskies. Good thing the guy wanted a beer the next day. Poor thing!

Softball goes nutball
Poor guy. OMG! Someone had a beer at a picnic. Oh, noz!  I think we all take things a wee bit too seriously.

Near beer saves the day
Drunk guy breaks into home and the homeowner uses a non-alcoholic beer to cajole him outside. Where he later broke into cars and ran through the woods. We hope he had clothes on.

A whole bunch of crap from Charleston
Yup. Usually half-naked + open container = Charged. And more!

And the winner is…
This guy. *sigh*

Special stuff, that’s what! In what has to be our most bizarre beer story to date, Dogfish Head’s Black & Blue is back. First, we couldn’t get; then we got it late last year; then they denied it again this year; and now it’s back as of today. We’re not even going to pretend to understand or know what’s going on with that, but regardless—it’s here. Come and get it. Also, two super-limited releases: Hoppin’ Frog’s Barrel-Aged B.O.R.I.S. The Crusher Oatmeal Imperial Stout (one of the Top 50 beers of the world!) and North Coast’s Bourbon Barrel-aged Old Rasputin Imperial Stout Anniversary XII. (That’s last year’s label above.)

Also, we have an unbelievable amount of Catawba Valley Brewing Co. growlers. Scott Pyatt is just cranking out the beers over in Morganton! In addition to the regular line-up, we have Blackwater Uber Pale Ale, Whiskey River IPA (aged Jack Daniels barrels) and King Coconut Porter.

The good news to start this week is that we FINALLY secured some Lagunitas Hop Stoopid. For whatever reason, our distributor deemed this highly-rated beer not worthy of ordering. Bullsh*t, we say! (We often wonder if our distributors even use or check BeerAdvocate or RateBeer. If not, they should!) After a few weeks of back and forth with the brewery and phone calls with our rep, we will be getting a shipment very soon. Better late than never, I guess, although we do not understand how, in a city of hopheads, this beer slipped by the wayside. Pretty stoopid, if you ask me.

“Hop Stoopid Ale: So Hoppy that it threatens to remove the enamel from one’s teeth.”

On another note, please go and join our Facebook Page. We are closing the Bruisin’ Group at the end of this month! And you can follow us on Twitter @bruisinales, too. We’ve become quite the Twitter junkie. *sigh*

Last night’s Asheville Tweetup at The Thirsty Monk was a blast! Thanks to all who came—pretty big turnout! We got a lot signatures against the NC beer tax and I met a whole bunch of new Tweeps. Sweet!

North Korea is brewing beer
With a long, weird 3-minute ad that’s since been pulled off YouTube “due to copyright issues in your country,” North Korea has started brewing beer: Taedong River Beer. We saw someone suggest the name Kim Jong Ale, which we like much better. Since we can’t provide you with the awesome beer ad, witness this 9 MINUTE infomercial about what we guess is the brewery, but the whole thing is in Korean. Nice work, North Korea! Way to distract us with beer, so we ignore the bombs and computer hacking that’s been keeping you busy.

The Beer Belly
As it turns out, beer may not be responsible for your “beer belly” after all! It’s mixed news, though, because now you’re just fat with a bad gene pool. Such is life, I guess.

Ladies prefer blondes?
Such a stupid column, I’m not even going to dignify it with a response. Except to say that he’s wrong and I wish people would stop grouping female beer drinkers into a style category.

WIRED Mag rips on BMC
Short and insanely funny. Love it! We hope it’s because of this shameless plug on CNBC. Some of the glowing statements about Budweiser read like Gov. Sanford’s love letters. Just sayin’.

Say it aint’ so
One of Charleston’s favorite hang-outs, Folly Beach, is considering a ban on alcohol since people apparently forgot how to use a trash can on the 4th of July.