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!

The Double IPA gets into the Halloween spirit

• 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

Dan & Drew & Van & Beer

• 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

Rutherford B. Greg (my favorite picture of the year that isn’t of my kids)

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

Pearl Street’s Chris with Rudy and Drew

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.