Hooters is making this holiday shopping season easy on customers by offering an added value when purchasing Hooters Gift Cards. Guests who purchase a $25 or $50 Hooters gift card will receive a $5 or $10 Santa Bonus Card, respectively, for redemption beginning next year.
Hooters also launched a holiday seasonal merchandise program including the 2012 Hooters Calendar, Hooters Playing Cards and a new line of sweatshirts, T-shirts and hats. Hooters Gift Cards are available in $10, $20, $25 and $50 denominations. The Santa Bonus Cards are valid January 2nd through February 29th and can be used toward all beverage, food and merchandise items, excluding alcohol. Read the rest of this entry »
Ta Henket, the latest addition to Dogfish Head’s line of Ancient Ales, rolls out this month. Inspired by a trip to the Great Pyramids, Dogfish Head Founder & President Sam Calagione created Ta Henket with ingredients and traditions outlined in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii, November30, 2011… Few business stories are more compelling than the trajectory of a small brand growing to a point where it can partner with a larger one to expand its capabilities, distribution, and improve its long-range health. The craft brewing industry has provided a spectacular setting for this drama to unfold over the past two decades, and Mattson Davis, president of Hawaii’s Kona Brewing, knows firsthand what growing a successful independent brewery is all about. On December 5, he will share this knowledge in his keynote speech at the Brewbound Craft Beer Session, to be held at Loews Santa Monica Hotel. In his talk, Davis will address the evolution of Kona Brewing, as well as its transition from being an isolated brand on the Hawaiian Islands producing 3,000 barrels of beer in 1997 to one of the largest craft brewers in the country in 2011, when it will pass 160,000 barrels. 
Shipyard Brewing Company announces the release of a new beer: Shipyard Applehead. An extension of the company’s popular Shipyard Pumpkinhead line, Shipyard Applehead is a seasonal brew available December through March, while supplies last.
Hop Scotch Spring Beer & Scotch Festival is the premier beer, Scotch, wine and spirit tasting experience benefiting Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). On March 30 and 31, Fremont Studios transforms into a swanky beverage tasting lounge featuring over 80 libations to swirl, sniff and sip.
Everybody clamors about Parabola. The masses murmur over Abacus. But since I live in a smaller market, I wanna talk about one of their more widely available beers: Double Jack. However, I won’t really have much to talk about since I’ve never had a Firestone Walker beer before. Looks like the only way I’m going to be able to speak on this is to get pryin’. Let’s pour! 
This year I added a new twist to recycling the Thanksgiving leftovers. I put aside some turkey for sandwiches and saved the body for soup. Still this year I am passing on the traditional turkey pot pie or turkey salad. My goal this year is to give you readers a new recipe and spin on utilizing your Thanksgiving leftovers. So without anymore added fanfare I give you the Thanksgiving Egg Roll. 
In the interest of full disclosure, I’d like to first say that I am the proud owner of some Equity for Punks! If you don’t know what that is yet, check it out here. After finally taking the plunge last week after a near immediate blessing from my surprisingly understanding and slightly dismissive wife (quoth her email, “Just go do it”), I find myself doing something new, exciting, and a bit helpful to the craft beer community. With my new investment in mind, I figured it was time to break out this bottle that had been sitting in my beer fridge for quite some time. This bottle is called “bashah” and is the collaborative effort betwixt our friends at Stone and Brewdog. I know! It DOES sound good. My only concern was that the bottle might be a little too old considering this is supposed to be a black Belgian DIPA. To be specific, this bottle is from batch 352 and was bottled on 12/19/2010. Under a year should be fine for a beer this steeped in hops and darkness, right? Is that not the story behind imperials and IPAs? That their strong flavors preserved them? One way to find out if that legend holds true. Let’s pour! 
Normally, I’d ask if you’re sick of New Glarus beers yet, but since I know such a thing is as probable as the Colts winning the Super Bowl this year I’m continuing my ironman streak of reviewing New Glarus beers until my beer fridge has made room for more newcomers. It’s a dirty job, but somebody has got to do it. Today’s review is for their Octoberfest called “Staghorn.” Let’s pour!
The masses have spoken. Two weeks ago I told you folks about Jim Beam’s bold choices promotion. Jim Beam is celebrating Bold Choices and the people that make them. In an era of cautiousness, bold behavior can be hard to find. So in what I feel is an effort to spice things up a bit, Jim Beam has taken to the web to find some “bold bloggers”. They approached me and asked about some bold choices and adventures I have always wanted to accomplish.
I’m glad my New Glarus kick continues because this brew has been sitting in my fridge for waaay too long. Now, New Glarus is recognized for having some world-class fruit beers. The first I had was their Wisconsin Belgian Red, but this review will be dedicated to their Raspberry Tart. Full disclosure: with all the New Glarus beers I’ve tried this one has eluded me until this day. My wife has even had this one, but not me! That all changes now. Let’s pour! 
Showcasing the brand’s global popularity, MillerCoors is unveiling a new look for Miller Genuine Draft primary and secondary packaging. Building on the brand’s heritage as the original cold-filtered “draft beer in a bottle,” the newly designed black-label packaging will highlight the brand’s fresh draft taste and connection with the energy and nighttime potential of the world’s great cities. The new packaging begins appearing at retail in the coming weeks.
In an era of cautiousness, bold behavior can be hard to find. So in what I feel is an effort to spice things up a bit, Jim Beam has taken to the web to find some “bold bloggers”. Jim Beam is celebrating Bold Choices and the people that make them. They have approached me and asked about some bold choices and adventures I have always wanted to accomplish.
Bud Light is bringing Redskins fans a taste of an NFL training camp when the Bud Light Fan Camp mobile experience arrives in D.C. on Sunday, October 30. Bud Light Fan Camp will be held at Redskins Park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, where teams of four will be challenged to compete against each other in a variety of traditional and non-traditional NFL skills tests, each with a Bud Light twist. Fan Camp events include:
I wanted follow up on the post last week about what Jim Beam Devil’s Cut was doing over the weekend on Twitter.
