The Brewers Association (BA)—the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American craft brewers—today launched KegReturn.com, a site that provides tools to help consumers, homebrewers, retailers, wholesalers, brewers and scrap yards redirect kegs back to the breweries that own the kegs. Kegs are always the property of the brewery which purchased them and filled [...]Brewers Association Launches KegReturn.com is a post from: Hoperatives. We like making our content fully available using RSS, but some people are re-using our content without permission. This is why the Internet can’t have nice things. Your support of the blog where this content originated (Read more...)
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Darn near every day my wife, friend and partner here on Hoperatives gives you a little gift. Whether it’s This Week in Beer or Growlers and Tastings or some piece of information she’s picked up from one of her many resources, it’s always important to her that we post something on Hoperatives each and every [...]This one’s for you, Carla is a post from: Hoperatives. We like making our content fully available using RSS, but some people are re-using our content without permission. This is why the Internet can’t have nice things. Your support of the blog where this content (Read more...) It’s funny how some ideas, some topics, can float around in the back of head like wisps of smoke, just insubstantial enough that you know there’s something on your mind, but you can’t quite get a handle on it. And then, quite by coincidence, someone goes and hits the nail square on the head – [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: Required Reading: Ruminations on the culture of sampling Depending on where on this crazy blue marble you live, we’re all about three days into the new year by now. That means the shiny of it is starting to wear off, that distinctive New Year smell isn’t so apparent anymore, and the irritation of having to remember to write "2013" instead of "2012" when [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: Better beer and resolutions in the new year Stinge clambered up off the floor, grinning as widely as he had in many years. “Yes! Yes!” he yelled, loud enough for anyone in the grain storage room above him to hear. “I’m still alive! Oh, happy day!” He dashed across the room, but seeing the handle was still in his hand, he rushed back [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: REPOST: A Craft Brew Christmas Carol – The End of It The specter, floating upon the billowing foam, came to Stinge silently, gravely. Overcome, Stinge, fell to his knees, trembling below the spirit’s gloom. The ghost wore a voluminous dark brown robe of heavy, homespun wool sashed at the waist by a simple cord of rope. A large cowl was drawn up over its head, so [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: REPOST: A Craft Brew Christmas Carol – The Third Spirit Stinge sat up in bed and looked around his dark room. His clock, inexplicably sitting in its proper spot on his nightstand read 1:00 AM. The exact minute he was told to expect his second visitor. At yet he was alone. He waited, unmoving in his bed, save for a slight shake of his hands [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: REPOST: A Craft Brew Christmas Carol — The Second Spirit Stinge awoke in total darkness. He couldn’t specifically remember turning off his only dim bulb, but must have before falling into bed. The man groaned and rubbed his eyes, trying to clear the fuzz from his head. Perhaps he’d had a few pints too many earlier in the night. That would certainly explain both what [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: REPOST: A Craft Brew Christmas Carol – The First Spirit [As another Christmas gift to you, our wonderful readers, we present a reprise of last year's Christmas series written by our own Puddin'. We'll release new parts throughout the day today. Merry Christmas! Tom & Carla] Jackson Merrill was dead. There could be no doubt about it. The certificate of death had been signed, the [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: REPOST: A Craft Brew Christmas Carol – The Ghost of Jackson Merrill Every Brew Geek in Brew-ville Liked Beermas a lot… But the Grinch Who lived just North of Brew-ville, Did NOT! The Grinch hated Beermas, The Whole Beermas drinking! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite got his thinking. It could be that beer sunk his head like a boat. It could be, perhaps, he [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: How the Grinch Stole Beermas Sometimes, not often, mind you, but sometimes, the wicked Fates see fit to smile down upon me and bestow a special day. Not a ridiculous kind of Special Day (lottery winning-day!) or the kind of special day of questionable value (all the numbers of the calendar line up-day!), but the kind of "special" that means [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: In search of a good session It was just three little words. Words aren’t scary, right? It’s not like riding Space Mountain or living through the zombie apocalypse or facing off against an enraged grizzly while holding a full-sized ham. Those things can really put the fear into you. But words are, you know, words. That is, unless you hear the [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: A happy, hoppy Thanksgiving from Hoperatives Since the day we started Hoperatives (well, really before then), we have worked very hard to promote the concept of better beer in Cincinnati (and beyond). We’ve taken a step closer towards this mission and we wanted to share this information with all of you. Both Carla and Tom are now working with Rivertown Brewing [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: Just letting you know… So today is apparently International Stout Day (November 8, 2012). According to their web site, there are seven different types of stouts: American-Style Stout, American-Style Imperial Stout, British-Style Imperial Stout, Sweet Stout (Milk/Cream Stou… . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: Today is International Stout Day Since we’re knee-deep in the muck and mire of election season here in the US (and doubly lucky since Ohio is not only vital, but a swing state), I figured I should maybe take a look at a topic that’s been shockingly, utterly ignored by not only both campaigns, but the media too. Namely, where [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: Election 2012: Craft beer and the candidates A few months ago, when summer was in full swing and I was living the family vacation high life (so not to be confused with the actual brand, High Life), I wrote a post about finding a brew in an unknown place to keep on hand for the duration of your stay. The comments I [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: Surviving the better beer desert One night last weekend I was sitting comfortably in my recliner, sipping a Rivertown Roebling porter, and fast-forwarding through a DVR’d commercial break during whatever I was about to fall asleep in front of when something unusual caught my eye. Maybe it was the music, maybe it was the man, maybe it was the action, [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: Mr. Bond goes Dutch When it comes to, well, just about anything someone can possibly write about, never let it be said that I was content to sit back and allow a few hundred words to suffice for a topic that I might easily run into the ground with a thousand more. Wait, wait, wait. Come back! Please. I [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: A bit more about Arthur’s Somewhere out there, a group of crazy marketing geniuses are counting their benjamins and patting themselves on the back for coming up big with a new hilarious campaign for Buffalo Wild Wings. Wait, did I say “geniuses” and “hilarious”? I’m sorry, I totally meant “boneheads” and “ill-conceived”, respectively. My bad. It’s just that someone out [...] . . . → Read More: Hoperatives: Wacky beer marketing gone terribly awry |
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Hoperatives: Malt Liquor Monday: Colt 45
A funny thing happened to me a few weeks ago. I was on my way home after a long night of auditioning chimpanzees for the title role in my new street play, “Puddin and the Primate’s Revenge: Episode One of the Organ Grinder of Darkness Saga” and realized I needed a beer to cap off [...]Malt Liquor Monday: Colt 45 is a post from: Hoperatives. We like making our content fully available using RSS, but some people are re-using our content without permission. This is why the Internet can’t have nice things. Your support of the blog where this content (Read more...)