Some Chicago brewing brothers send beer to the west coast
Monday, January 19th, 2009
Mighty Brew neck label
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.
The range of Mighty Brew beers
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.
