On a small American Airlines jet heading for D.C. I bend forward just a bit so I can look out my window, across the wing of the jet and out into the convection of clusters, the dendrites of roads, the towns and lives below. I keep staring and take a deep breath so that I [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Contact Your U.S. Representative to Support H.R. 4278 & Your Local Brewers
From the Brewers Association website: Federal legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 4278, seeks to enact a reduction in beer excise tax for America’s small brewers. For small brewers brewing less than 6 million barrels annually, this legislation would cut the small brewer tax rate in half, to $3.50/barrel on the first 60,000 [...]
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Ride for Free at Heavenly until April 25th!!
If you buy a $339 season pass for 2010-2011 you can ride free at Heavenly from now until when they close on April 25th.
Sweet Jumps
This is how we did it before they had a name for it.
Schlitz Malt Liquor Commercial
Awesome.
Thrasher Has a New Site
Thrasher has a new website that launched today and they’ve also go some nice new extensions of their bad ass goat logo, like the shirt above. There is something truly right and glorious about marrying an inverted pentagram with skateboard trucks.
Late Hopping for Better Flavor & Aroma
Here’s a great article from MrMalty.com on pushing almost all of your hop charges to the last 20-30 minutes of your boil. Some folks are even holding off until whirlpooling. Crazy shit, I tell you. I first learned how far some brewers were pushing late hopping while drinking a pint of AleSmith’s Evil Dead Red [...]
Google Maps Now Has Bicycle Option
Google Maps has added “bicycle” as an option for map routing, theoretically helping you avoid hills, traffic, etc. It also has trail options as well. That’s a nice surprise to get spring jumpstarted a bit. Now we just need to see if it will work.