Last night I made a short post about Hansen Beverages and their bullying tactics with Rock Art Brewery in Vermont.  They are making the claim that people will somehow confuse their Monster Energy Drink with Rock Art’s Vermonster Beer.  The truth is that Hansen beverages makes Monster energy drinks and the distributor for Monster in [...]

Hansen Beverage, the company that makes Monster energy drinks has gone after a small brewery in Vermont over what they claim is a trademark infringement.  So, what is their claim?  That people will confuse their Monster energy drink with Rock Art Brewery’s Vermonster beer.   What?  I don’t know about you but I have never confused [...]

One of the challenges for me for my Year of Beer is to have an easy and cost effective way to experiment and try out new recipes without committing to a 5 gallon batch.  In my search for small batch home brewing I came across this new company, the Brooklyn Brew Shop.
The company is pretty [...]

This is another beer that my wife bought me when she was in New York.  It’s from a Vermont brewery called Long Trail Brewing Company.  This beer is a coffee stout and it’s from their Brewmaster series.  The coffee they used when they brewed it was from Vermont Coffee Company so you are truly getting [...]

I finally got around to watching the second DVD of the Beer Nutz TV show.  I didn’t watch the show when it came out, I got the DVD’s via Netflix when I started my year of beer and watched them all at once.  I wrote a small review of the first half of the show [...]

My wife travels a lot for work and when she goes away, she has been stopping at liquor/beer/grocery stores and picking up random beers she thinks I might want to try.  This was one of those beers.  It’s from Southern Tier Brewing Company based in Lakewood New York.   This beer is apparently part of their [...]