Another handful of new caps. They just get more and more interesting.
ak47:
(via ginobambino)
Oh my God…
*BEEEELCH*
It’s best in person. (Taken with instagram)
Holy crap it’s 109 degrees in my car! o.O (Taken with instagram)
Another Sunday evening cooking out by the lake! :) Bacon wrapped scallops with some brewskis! (Taken with instagram)
New drinks! Some beer, some soda. All these caps will feature in my next batch added to the collection.
npr:
If you want to see the strength of America’s beer industry, you may want to look past beverage giants like Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors. According to the Brewers Association, nearly 2,000 American brewers operated during 2011 — the most since the 1880s.
(via U.S. Craft Beer Brewers Thrive, Despite Small Share Of The Market : The Salt)
Photo: Bill Chappell / NPR
Yurp.
Forever Bicycles
Ai Weiwei
2003
Bicycles by the dissident artist in China. At first I only sympathized with him for his plight. Now I love him.
(via npr)
(Note: the above image is from the article and is not representative of my collection although I have most of these caps already.)
“…while macrobrew brands are certainly appealing, the actual beers in question are basically terrible…Indeed, if there’s one ubiquitous reference that macrobrewing companies make to the beer itself, it’s usually one telling you how cold the beer is or should be — a temperature that, quite deliberately, helps hide just how bad the beer actually is.”
I came upon an interesting article about how beer “can save America” [’s economy]. The brackets is what I suppose is the insinuation here.
Honestly I believe it. There’s nothing more true about people getting out and living their lives these days. Here in Charlotte we pile into the car and drive down to the Common Market to try out the latest microbrew or unusual foreign-made beer. Call it what you want: trying to be hipster to fit in with the typical crowd or just trying to be unique and different. At a standard bar with two beers on tap and about 5 others for selection in the bottle you’ll only find people looking to get trashed and hook up. But at the Common Market we get trashed in relative style and originality. Note my ongoing beer cap collection - I’ve had some really interesting and off the wall stuff!
However it’s not as if more popular mainstream bars aren’t jumping on the bandwagon. Any bar or restaurant owner with a lick of entrepreneurial sense could catch onto this craze. The vast majority of [non-dive or back woods] bars I’ve been into these days have a fairly extensive drink list with a regularly changing tap assortment and seasonal brews outside of the macrobrew line-up. One such joint is the Flying Saucer Draft Emporium with prime-pickins of location over by the university. In here you can aspire to the greatness of having your name on a gold plate on the wall when you’ve enjoyed something like 200 different beers. And if I remember correctly, you can join as a member and when you do this something like 15 times over - thusly killing 48,000 fluid ounces worth of logic-demanding brain cells - you get a trip on the house to some big-ass beer festival romp in someplace like Denver, Colorado.
The point being, yes, I do believe beer can and ultimately will be the drive to save America. Looking at it in an economical fashion the competition from microbrews is a huge indication of what capitalist society is built upon. And that’s not even considering the social situations naturally created by alcohol consumption. “Shit bro, I’m having a good time.” one guy says to another. “Well fuggit let’s grab some more brews ya?” intones the perfect reply no buzzed-and-loving-it individual would turn down.
Cheers readers. :) I’ll drink to that.