happy time magic hour

htmh s3e27 liberty ale and even more star wars. This week we...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:31:44 -0500

htmh s3e27 liberty ale and even more star wars.

This week we contiunue our look at Anchor brewing with their Liberty ale, then continue our star wars discussion after I blow off google and facebook news.

"Prices at the bar, at 321 W. 44th St., will go up and down based on how popular a beer is — the..."

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:37:48 -0500

“Prices at the bar, at 321 W. 44th St., will go up and down based on how popular a beer is — the fewer people drinking a certain kind of brew, the cheaper it is. If everyone wants a piece of an ale, the price of a pint shoots up.”

- Beer ‘Stock Market’ Controls Flow at New Hell’s Kitchen Bar - DNAinfo.com

(via V6 Beer Chilling Engine - Video | The Brew Club)

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:43:27 -0500

(via V6 Beer Chilling Engine - Video | The Brew Club)

htmh s3e26 anchor steam star wars and NASA This week Rob and...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:39:33 -0500

htmh s3e26 anchor steam star wars and NASA

This week Rob and Keith taste the fantastic Anchor Steam Beer (5+5 = 10!) then we launch into a discussion of Lucas’s retirement, what the Star Wars franchise could have become and our Own NASA space program and why it will never be what it was, or what it should be.

Links from the show:

Life in a Day

Star Wars Uncut: Directors Cut

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"Our goal has always been to be a regional craft brewer,” he said. “We’re not..."

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:48:06 -0500

““Our goal has always been to be a regional craft brewer,” he said. “We’re not necessarily doing things to a specific style. We’re doing things that we enjoy in beer. We’re not trying to replicate anyone else.””

- Beer: A new aroma in Hershey - Lebanon Daily News

Troeg’s one of my favorite regional craft brewers talks about relocating into Hershey PA.

I smell a collaborative chocolate stout in the future…

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Periodic Table of Beer Styles. I like this table a lot because...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:24:46 -0500

Periodic Table of Beer Styles.

I like this table a lot because it shows the specific gravities and other technical info, which tickles my home brew geek funny bone.

Please someone print this out as a non reflective poster that I can hang on the blue screen behind me for the show. :)

(via: MashSpargeBoil)

UPDATE: It’s available on Amazon in color for only $0.01 + Shipping… I bought it there. Woot!

"Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online..."

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:16:01 -0500

“Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.”

- End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google

"It just floors me that so much of our beer industry is owned by foreign concerns,” Dick..."

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:37:29 -0500

““It just floors me that so much of our beer industry is owned by foreign concerns,” Dick Yuengling, the brewery’s fifth-generation owner, told the Morning Call. “We were not in any race to be the largest domestically owned brewer, but it’s a tremendous honor for us.””

- Who’s the country’s biggest brewer?- MSN Money

Yuengling wins by default, because everyone bigger is no longer an American Company…

I’m not sure I’d want that award. :/

htmh s3e25 drinking the yellow snow It’s the perfect...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:04:14 -0500

htmh s3e25 drinking the yellow snow

It’s the perfect storm, the trifecta, the hat trick of beer sampling. We manage to get the same beer on three coasts for a live tasting of Rogue’s Yellow Snow IPA.

Special Thanks to Gary and Jeremy for not only suggesting the brew but joining us for the tasting, and our pal Orion for joining us with his glass of tequila, which was the right color at least.

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Yellow Snow

How to Pack and Ship Beer | Barlow Brewing

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:56:35 -0500

How to Pack and Ship Beer | Barlow Brewing:

Special thanks to our friend of the show, and regular guest Gary for digging this up.

We may be starting a little cross country beer exchange so that we can try and share some more regional beers on the podcast.

American microbrewers: can they be saved from Hopsessive/Compulsive Disorder? | Scholars and Rogues

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:26:01 -0500

American microbrewers: can they be saved from Hopsessive/Compulsive Disorder? | Scholars and Rogues

(via Solange Gilman Google+)

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:16:06 -0500

(via Solange Gilman Google+)

We are pleased to announce that happy time magic hour the...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:41:00 -0500

We are pleased to announce that happy time magic hour the podcast is now available on Stitcher!

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htmh s3e23 sams holiday porter and happy holidays This week we...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:02:34 -0500

htmh s3e23 sams holiday porter and happy holidays

This week we revisit the Sam Adams’ holiday porter which Sam Adam’s claims is a favorite of their seasonal pack, but we still don’t like it. (1+3=4) with an independent verification from Orion Dauphin rating it a 2 out of 5.

Then we examine empire online’s list of top christmas movies which includes items that are not movies, as well as many movies that happen to happen over christmas, but aren’t about christmas. So you can see where this one goes. :D

This is out last regular show for 2011, have a happy and safe holiday season and we will see you back in January 2012.

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From Rob’s Christmas concert for his mother’s...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:24:09 -0500

From Rob’s Christmas concert for his mother’s birthday.

Yeah ok the dude can sing, a little ;-)

htmh s3e21 sam’s winter lager and dirt is SO a toy I was...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:35:06 -0500

htmh s3e21 sam’s winter lager and dirt is SO a toy

I was having issues with the conversions for last weeks episode when I realized I never posted the previous weeks show here on the site. So here it is.

This week Rob and Keith try Sam Adam’s winter lager and then get into a heated debate on what is and isn’t a toy.

Mommy and Daddy are fighting!!!! make it stop!

Another amazing photo from Rob at BeerLens, it’s a must...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:25:26 -0500

Another amazing photo from Rob at BeerLens, it’s a must follow beer photo blog.

(via Lagering Tank at the Van Steenberge Brewery, Ertvelde, Belgium | Beer Lens | Photos of beer, pubs and breweries from around the world)

"You know what beers adhere to the Bavarian Purity Law? Bud, Miller, and Coors (among many, many..."

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:16:05 -0500

“You know what beers adhere to the Bavarian Purity Law? Bud, Miller, and Coors (among many, many others). It doesn’t make a beer bad because it follows the law, but it doesn’t make it better just because it does.”

- Reinheitsgebot Rant

The Fifty Best Beers

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:27:58 -0500

The Fifty Best Beers:

o really? We might have to see how many of these we have had, and can get for the show…

Today is bartender’s appreciation day, be sure and thank...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:45:44 -0500

Today is bartender’s appreciation day, be sure and thank your bartender and tip him or her well.

(via December 9th - Bartender Appreciation Day)

(Hat tip to @shotbykim)