Now that we’re in 2015 I thought I’d look back through our posts from last year and aggregate some data, ala the Feltron Annual Report.
New beer
Here’s a list of every beer we made in 2014. Those marked with an asterisk were very limited release, being samples/pints only at the brewery or only sent to one bar, are marked with an asterisk. It doesn’t include beers we made in the past and re-released, like Wet Frank or Oh Snap!
- Singularity (Falconers Flight)
- Singularity (Northern Brewer)
- The IPA (with citra)
- Dank Frank
- Green Bottle Saison*
- Sour Cherry Stout*
- Seasonal Creep (Saison)
- Mr. Blofeld
- Singularity (Apollo)
- Rutherford Brett Haze
- The Snow (2014)
- OG Whale
- Drew’s Dyrty Dyngus*
- Grisette #1
- Singularity (East Kent Golding)
- Klassy NY Pale Ale (collaboration with Big Ditch)
- Singularity (Nugget)
- Singularity (Chinook)
- Duality (Chinook/Citra)*
- Cheetah Mikida*
- IPA (mosaic dry hop)*
- Strawberry Rhubarbford B. Haze*
- Tripod
- Alex Placito Has A Posse
- Rutherford B. Nguyen
- The End Is Rye
- Porter Collaboration Project (collaboration with Pearl St)
- Singularity (Calypso)
- Nouveau Riche
- Iron Sikh (collaboration with Hamburg)
- Rye barrel Cherry Whale
- Beer Week IPA
- Singularity (Falconers Flight 7c’s)
- Cole’s 80th Anniversary IPA
- The IPA (with nelson)*
- Heatrays (2014)
- Singularity (Palisades)
- Saison #1
- Storm Warning
- The End Is Rye (oak aged)*
- Molé Dick*
- Rosemary’s Snow Baby (collaboration with Old First Ward)
- Duality (Galaxy/Mosaic)*
(this does not include beers we had released previously, like the Elmwood Festive-ale: just ones that had never been seen before)
Totals
Total new beer: 43 Singularities: 9 Collaborations: 4
Milestones and other cool things
- We can now sell pints!
- Hydraulic Hearth is open and will soon be brewing
- Buffalo Spree named us Best Local Brewery
- Ethan and Rudy were profiled by Luke Copping
- We added taps to our van (see sbove)
- We collaborated with BreadHive on bread made with spent grain from The Whale
- We collaborated with public espresso on Espresso Whale
- We collaborated with Buffalo Distilling on Tripod
Blog stats
Breakdown
- Sessions: 11
- Music Boxes: 7
- Travel posts: 7
- Profiles: 6
- Beer & Gaming: 6
- Book club recaps: 4
- Other My Embeered Life posts: 11
Top lists
- Most popular 2014 post: Our second anniversary: the beers
- Most popular 2014 My Embeered Life post: On cellaring, a polite way of saying “forgetting”
- Post that apparently has decent SEO and is probably not what people are searching for: The beers of Sint Maarten
Videos we made or are featured in: 7
- Our winter commercial
- Buffalo For Real TV: Horsefeathers
- The Iron Event promo
- It’s in a book1
- The Whale’s ice bucket challenge
- Winging It! previews the Ballpark Brew Bash
- The Rutherford B. Haze funeral procession
Other statistics
- Events/beer pairing dinners: 12
- Brewfests: 19
It was a hell of a year. I look forward to an even bigger 2015.
Justin told me that he was recognized at a beer event, not as “the Kegworks homebrewing guy” but as “the guy from the Reading Rainbow video”, which basically made my goddamn year. ↩
Amazing year, and amazing beer. Looking forward to what 2015 brings!