Flying Dog Brewery's Executive Brewer Matt Brophy sat down with PR & Event Coordinator Steph Kerchner to talk about Flying Dog Brewery's new Spring Seasonal, Garde Dog Biere de Garde.
What was the Flying Dog brewhouse like in the early days? A bong on the line? Shagging on grain bags? Bling bling? We hear from some of the guys who were there from the start...
Flying Dog founders R. McIntyre and G. Stranahan get together to drink some dogs and talk about what makes a person "Flying Dog". Hint for Eric Warner: it's not about wearing girl's clothes. And what happened in the early days when Ralph Steadman started drawing labels featuring canine genitalia? People quit, that's what. Plus: Did ya hear? Rippe eats it raw.
More footage from the 2007 GABF. Flying Dog picked up a Bronze medal in the American Style Amber Lager category at the 2007 Great American Beer Festival. Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper imparted some wisdom on the crowd, and we even met "The Beer Man". All in all, a very successful weekend. See you at next year's GABF!
The Bad Art For Bad People party came to GABF this year, and it was called The Zombie Dance Party. There was some great art for sale, burlesque, and live music. Did we mention that there was plenty of Flying Dog beer? Because there was.
Sure, there are 400+ breweries pimping 1800 beers at the 2007 Great American Beer Festival, but we at Flying Dog Brewery are taking it up a notch with our custom designed Plinko board. Even with Bob Barker retired from "The Price is Right", Plinko is near and dear to all humans, transcending class systems.
We had a release party at the Blake Street Tavern for our new Wild Dog release, an Open Source Doppelbock. Also sampled were some experimental Canis Major beers, such as a Barrel-Aged Horn Dog Barley Wine and Gonzo Imperial Porter with Brettanomyces (google it). We met up with Stan Hieronymous - a fantastic beer writer - and Justin Davis, who has a weekly podcast about Craft Beer (davisondraft.com).
We roll into the Flying Dog Ranch in Carbondale, CO to hang out with brewery co-founder Richard McIntyre: cum catcher and original road dog. Richard tells us about what it takes to ship cattle semen world-wide, and the jail time he did in the 70's for tax evasion...seems he didn't pay tax on his weed sales. Also some choice bits about nude cavorting, and Rippe's gridiron exploits.
