Travel by the Pint: the Blog

Friend of this site and unofficial, off-site beerologist, Chad Case, has been bugging us asking us nicely for a Travel by the Pint ringtone for his iPhone. Awesome idea! And so we’ve created one and made it available for download from the Merchandise and Free Stuff page of our site.

If you have an iPhone and a Mac, just double-click the downloaded file and it will be added to the ringtone library in iTunes. After syncing your phone, the ringtone should be available through your settings app. If you have some other kind of phone or are on a PC — consult your manual or someone under the age of 15 for instructions.

Tonight, we popped the caps on our first two bottles of home brew — which Sally has christened “Doobie Blonde” in honor of the suspected doobie-smokin’-hippies that built our beloved house back in the early ’70s.

Our expectations were low. After all, how could a kit beer actually be good? We were pleasantly surprised. Not only did the whole experiment work (it feels a bit magical to actually make beer) but it’s not half bad. Pretty good, in fact. We’re definitely energized to try another batch and make our way toward an all-grain brew. For the record, this kit came from Homebrewers Outpost and I wouldn’t hesitate to order from them again. In fact, I see they have some all-grain kits…

A couple of beer-related links I ran across this week: it seems that Pyramid Breweries has a new logo and updated packaging (via the Brand New blog). And Manolith has posted a graphical timeline of the history of beer.