Today is the 38th birthday of Jeff Bagby, who until recently was the head brewer extraordinaire at Pizza Port in Carlsbad. There, you can read the entire biography of Jeff “Extra Spicy” Bagby. I’m not sure when […]

Bring out your kettles and burners and join us for a Big Brew on Saturday May 26th at the home of our Competition Coordinator and Brewmaster, Carl Townsend.  This will be a perfect opportunity to whip up something […]

Thursday’s ad is for the manufacturer Continental Can Company, from 1959, extolling the virtue of their can for beer. Showing an illustration of four seating men standing around an open refrigerator with a can […]

Wednesday’s ad is a fairly recent one for the Chinese beer Tsingtao. It was created by artist Olly Howe. I love its rorschach-like quality and its amazing detail. It’s messy and organized at the same time.

For our 64th Session, our host, Carla Companion — a.k.a. The Beer Babe — who these days is writing at Beer Utopia, among others. She’s posted her Session announcement at both The Beer Babe and Beer Utopia, and […]

Today would have been Bert Grant’s 84th birthday, and he is definitely missed. Bert opened the country’s first brewpub in 1982 in Yakima, Washington and was a fixture in the industry until his death in late July […]

MAY TWENTY-TWELVE
UPCOMING EVENTS:
CLUB MEETING @ CCHBS: MAY 17TH, 7PM – INDIA PALE ALES
Hop withdrawal?  This meeting is sure to cure what ales you.  Bitterness never tasted so…bitter.
BIG BREW @ CARL’S […]

It’s IPA night at our monthly club meeting tomorrow -  Thursday, May 17th, at Culver City Home Brewing Supply.  We get things started at 7:30pm out back of the store, so bring your best homebrew or even a […]

21st Amendment brewer and co-owner Shaun O’Sullivan turns 49 today. Shaun is one my favorite people in the industry. He’s a tireless champion for craft beer and very supportive of other brewers, such as with his […]

This weekend — Sunday May 20 to be exact — the circus is once again coming to the town of Petaluma as the fourth annual Lagunitas Beer Circus will be held on the grounds of the Lagunitas Brewery. If you haven’t […]

Tuesday’s ad is for Heineken. It looks like it’s from the 1960s or so, but it was definitely before 1991, when Heineken bought their importer, Van Munching & Co. One interesting thing I’m pretty sure isn’t on […]

Monday’s ad is for Budweiser and I suspect it’s from the late 1960s or 70s, when the big breweries seemed to finally discover that not everybody was white. They’re still using the “Where There’s Bud … There’s […]

Friday’s ad is for Goetz beer, from the M.K. Goetz Brewing Co. of St. Joseph and Kansas City, Missouri. It looks to be from the 1950s, especially with the look of the paneled den where the party is taking place. […]

Thursday’s ad is from Budweiser’s long-running “Where There’s Life” series. Showing a bashful woman hiding her face, barely, with a fan, as her beau pours her a glass of Budweiser.

Wednesday’s ad is for Lowenbrau, from 1900, when everybody used artwork of a pretty gal to sell beer. I think it worked, Lowenbrau is still making beer.

Tuesday’s ad is also for Pilsner Urquell, which was run in France, based on the language. The ad copy, “La seule véritable bière importée de pilsen” translates as “The only true pilsner beer imported from” […]

Monday’s ad is for Pilsner Urquell, from what looks like the 1940s or 50s. I certainly don’t recall Pilsner Urquell using that “P” logo with the barrel and gate symbol. But I love the classy pin-up art.

On my way out of town last Sunday, after a week in San Diego for the Craft Brewers Conference, there was one more stop I wanted to make. I’d known brewer Travis Smith since his days at Russian River, where he […]

Just a quick reminder that I will be collecting payments for the OC Road Trip this Thursday at the PG meeting.  Response thus far has been light and unless we get a solid showing at the meeting, I’ll have to […]

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