I’ve had trouble finding feel good drunken sign-along punk rock as of lately but this one from Altanta’s The Bastard Suns always serves me well. Enjoy!

The first in a series of music celebrations of good old fashioned drinking.

Esteemed beer connoisseur Michael Jackson swings by the Conan O’Brien Show in this vintage clip to taste a few select brews including a mysterious Dogfish Head Golden Shower.

(originally posted on laurtering.com and found via @brewcrewtv)

Open fermentation, cask of beer, and steam heat… Check out this awesome PSA on brewing from back in the day:

Stone to open a Brewery in Europe? from stonebrew on Vimeo.

The arrogant bastards over at Stone Brewing Co. are apparently looking into opening a brewery over in Europe. While the idea is still a bit green and definitely not solidified, this is awesome for a two reasons. First, it opens up American craft beer to the global community (and thus starts creating the global craft beer community). Also, it is an obvious solution to the terrible environmental impact of shipping beer ingredients from Europe to the States just to ship the beer back to Europe. I can’t wait to see where this one goes.

(tipped via beernews.org)

Always pushing the limits of Belgian inspired American beers, Portland, Maine’s Allagash brewery have developed their very own Koelschip for creating spontaneously fermented beers similar to the lambic style. While sour beers utilizing wild yeasts such as Brettanomyces have been popping up all over, all of the American versions of these are brewed using cultivated yeast strains. That is, until now.

The new Koelschip – aka a very large open air room with a steel tank and wooden ceiling (see photo above) – will change all that. For a few months out of the year, the weather by the Allagash brewery will be just right for cultivating “good” wild bacteria which accumulate on the ceiling and then fall into the beer tank. The beer is then pumped back indoors for fermenting and later aged in barrels.

Check out the awesome video below and keep an eye out for the first batch (no release date announced). In the interim, grab a glass of Allagash’s amazing Interlude which is a sour Belgian that was “accidentally” infected with local yeast and started this whole adventure. More photo’s here.


UPDATE: Beernews.org reports that this beer will make its wordwide debut tomorrow, December 16th in Philadelphia:

So when does the beer make its U.S. debut? Tomorrow night according to Felicia D’Ambrosio of the Philadelphia City Paper: “Rob Tod, owner of Allagash Brewing in Portland, Maine, will visit Philadelphia to make the U.S. debut of the first-ever American spontaneously fermented lambic in a Tria Fermentation School class on Thursday, Dec. 17. Hyped lambic-heads have already sold the class out, a testament to Philadelphia’s devotion to the rarest and weirdest of all artisanal beer styles.”