Drink Wet Cement

... get really stoned

This just made me think that I would LOVE it if Jamba Juice started serving Juicy IPA's!

I'd totally want to try an “Orange C Booster IPA”!

70s Dad Joke T-Shirts

Diane Doniol-Valcroze @ddoniolvalcroze

Paul Newman with 4 ice cold beers while wearing a “Get Really Stoned” t-shirt (1981)

Paul liked drinking Getmany’s fun loving St. Pauli Girl in the early 80s? Nice.

Also, “get really stoned’ in the 70s meant to get really drunk. Cool. I'm getting so stoned tonight then.

New Collecting Obsession Unlocked

Look out! I am about to get into drink token collecting.

I saw someone on Beer Twitter (sorry I can't remember who it is otherwise I would credit it) showing off some old drink tokens.

They looked so clean and probably very satisfying to hold in your hand, and yet I have none.

I can remember using them in an old dive bar I would haunt - I can’t remember how or why I earned one.

Anyway, they looked so cool I immediately went to E-bay to see if I could find a Fresno one, like the one I had somehow earned. I could not.

But I did go down the drink token rabbit hole and eventually purchased a nice New Jersey one - my wife's side are all from New Jersey so I figured I'd start there since it's slightly possible one of them held one of these tokens:

It hasn't gotten here yet but I’m looking forward to it. A cheap niche collecting genre is right up my alley.

Hipster Hop Alert!: Nectaron

I have suddenly been seeing this new hop pop up the past couple weeks. First I saw it included in a Slice Beer Co beer called “Infinate Pulp” that has grafic work I'm fucking falling over:

Then I saw it in a new Firestone Walker IPA from their Propagator Single Hop series - hiding in their latest IPA mixed pack.

So I got one (picture above). I will say it's a nice beer. It's a New Zeland hop that features the tropical things and I usually dig those kind of beers.

Is Whole Foods Beer Indie?

A story from eatthis.com (via D&T Reader, @hops_hound) about a Houston area Whole Foods that brews its own beer left me with a question: Is it Indie?

Well, they make a small enough amount of beer so I guess it's automatically Craft Beer.

Cool. But who owns it?

Whole Foods, right? And Amazon owns Whole Foods these days - doesn't get bigger than that. So that also means Jeff Bezos ultimately owns Whole Foods Market Brewery in Houston.

Craft but definitely not Indie.

By the way, shout out to Whole Foods Market Head Brewer, Chris Shelton, for not being shy about rating his own beers on Untappd. 😂👍:

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Be safe and have a relaxing week with your beers!

-Mikey