A friend of mine is a graphic artist for a company that makes wedding gifts, bar room accessories, and anything else that needs to be engraved or custom made. I had the idea awhile back to try to make some Bearded Brewing glassware to give to some of my friends as gifts. I thought of Tim and his work and inquired about making me some glasses. Since I wasn't going to order 50-100 glasses, I was thinking more around 20, I needed to find a place that sold glasses cheaply and in small quantities. I found Pubglasses.com and was really impressed. The glasses were cheap, and the service was great (I had to send back my original order because the goblets were too small). I ordered pint glasses and three of these kick-ass goblets. Tim was nice enough to engrave them in his free time in exchange for a glass and some Bearded brews. I gave some of my closest friends a glass as thanks for encouraging me and always being honest critics and fans of my beer.Some other random thoughts: I found out today that one of my favorite breweries, New Glarus only distributes in Wisconsin on principal and despite pleas from Minnesota distributers for years, wants to keep their beer Wisconsin only. While I admire their attitude and their native loyalty, it sucks for anyone outside of Wisconsin who can't enjoy their excellent beer.
Today I went and visited a new beer store in the cities I had yet to go to. Minnesota's first beer speciality store (for those unfamiliar with Minnesota's laws, beer is sold in liquor stores). The Four Firkins is located in a western suburb of Minneapolis, St. Louis Park, and while very small, is very impressive. The store sells no major commercial beers, strictly craft breweries and imported. An impressive selection of beers, organized by style (very cool) instead of brand. Also, the beers are arranged on wooden shelves, almost like bookshelves, which is unique and adds a nice feel. I managed to walk out of there only spending $17 which was a test of will power. It's probably a good thing it's kind of drive for me.
More later.
Salud!
Bearded Brewer
3 comments:
Awesome goblet. Nice to have friends willing to help you out :-)
Thanks! It was very cool of him to do it up.
New Glarus is indeed awesome, and while it sucks for us out of state-ers, I completely understand why they do it. So now, I just make Madison runs twice a year to restock on beer. :)
I'm a little miffed at you for "stealing" my brewery name (you had it first fair and square, I'm just ticked I didn't think of it! ;) ) but you seem super-cool and I love what I've read of your blog so far.
So cheers and prost! from another brewer from the Midwest, albeit a bit further south.
Health and beer,
Chriso
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