Welcome to Squibs 5, the 2012 Tra-la-la edition. I write when the spirit moves me–ok, well, to be perfectly honest, that is a necessary but not sufficient condition. Â I also need to have free time and can’t write these on my smartphone, so it’s also critical to have a real computer before me….
Squib has a lot of definitions… freedictionary.com says it can mean a. A small firecracker. b. A broken firecracker that burns but does not explode. By extension, a squib is also a dud round of ammunition, one that doesn’t even quite make it out of the barrel… (and it’s the next shot that’ll really screw…
Yeah, I have not posted in awhile. But here I am! Â There are just a few things on my mind and well… I have a soapbox, er, blog. Â So, getting down to it… The first, really the big point is related to the title. Â Before Community Beer Works, there was Beer-O-Vision, the blog…
As I write this, I’m 35,000 feet above the Rockies, on my way back from the 2011 Craft Brewers Conference, held this year in San Francisco. It was really an amazing experience for me, and for our humble start-up in…
We had no idea that CBW, in addition to being a brewing juggernaut and collection of gaming geeks, would also turn out to be a hotbed of lyrical craftsmen of the highest order. Â But that’s what happens when you get a team of people together: hidden talents come to the fore, and…
Well, Superbowl XVL is over, and this year I really watched absolutely none of it; I haven’t even seen the ads, though I know they’re on YouTube already. Â I have it…
What I envision is simply a loosely organized network of hop growers, in and around the city, throwing in some rhizomes for fun, and then possibly giving up some or all for a once or twice a year "harvest beer."
This blazing, humid, and generally oppressive week,  we’ve attended our first couple of neighborhood organization or block club meetings, partly in pursuit of a variance to use the location in which we’d very much like to establish…
There is more than one thing we intend to make at Community Beer Works, once we really get rolling. Â Sure, we’re gonna make a whole lot of beer, Â beer that you really, really want to drink! But we also…