Some Chicago brewing brothers send beer to the west coast
I saw photos of these homebrews through my friend Brian a little while ago. I have to tell you these guys are near and dear to my heart as not only do they love homebrew but they love image, broadcast, and web design.
Do you get as excited about adjustment layers masks as you do about mash temps? How about alpha acid levels and addEventListeners? or yeast starters and div class? wait one more….how about original gravity and motion tracking. Ahhh, now I’m there!
Much to our excitement, MightyBrew beers arrived to the west coast to much fanfare. After getting the text from Brian, I showed up at his door step with Nikon in hand. These guys are true to form and there deisgn work shows it. I think the best marriage between beer and design is the Evil Tween beer….a clear reference to Alesmith’s Evil Twin recipe that is all over the web and the act of tweening in Adobe Flash (note: Alesmith’s beer is actually called Evil Dead Red….Evil Twin is based on a recipe by Jamil Zainasheff). Nice work. If for some reason our family ends up in Chicago, the first resume I send out will going to them.
Review? I’d love to but Brian has a newborn and that mixed up which beer we were trying with googoogaga-ing the baby. Interestingly, we noticed a phenol spiciness in the beers but the label does reference the addition of some spice. It would be great to sit down and do something a little more formal but I never seem to be capable of doing that these days while on the run….when you become a parent yourself, you start heavily multi-tasking everything in your life. We definitely had a favorite but I can’t remember if that was the Amber or the Evil Tween. I’m not sure if the Pale Ale was supposed to be that phenol or not. However, the bottom line is Mighty Brew needs to keep the brewing happening. In fact I would recommend that they brew at work. There is plenty of time to brew while stuff is rendering out and vice versa, there is time to tweak keyframes while you are mashing.
Cheers.
Tags: amber, evil twin, mighty brew, pale ale




January 19th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
The Evil Tween Ale was our favorite…how could it not be with a name like that?
January 19th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Hey, thanks for the high props. Glad you liked ‘em. Blogger Lager is next. Stay tuned!
January 20th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
ah OK, thanks Brian.
January 20th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Blogger lager. How appropriate!
Looking forward to hearing more about it. We’ll try to get some brew notes out of you as well.
Cheers.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:49 am
The Ale Smith beer is Evil Dead Red. Evil Twin is a recipe from Jamil Zainasheff based on the Ale Smith beer technique. You can read all about it at http://www.mrmalty.com.