Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Festival of Ale | Higgins Armory Museum

Festival of Ale | Higgins Armory Museum

The Brewer’s Spotlight returns! Did you miss us? This Tuesday, we’d like to focus on the Berkshire Brewing Company, otherwise known as BBC.

Since 1992, Massachusetts natives Chris Lalli and Gary Bogoff have focused on reviving the time- honored tradition of local, quality ales. They started Berkshire Brewing with the aim of producing ale with the same ethics and craftsmanship of an artisan. Although they originally intended to produce draft-only brews, the public demand for “take-home” products quickly induced them to start bottling. Within two years of business, BBC went from brewing 24 barrels (the equivalent of 774 gallons) per week, to 77 barrels (2,387 gallons) per week- (wow!) With this success came several new ales and the introduction of seasonal lagers to the family. And who doesn’t like a brewery that refers to their beers as a “family”?

It just makes sense that they put that much care and attention into brewing their nine year-round flavors of ales and various seasonal flavors...and, let’s face it, when one goes about any craft that way, it’s bound to be delicious. Berkshire Brewing takes the time to make every drinker’s experience as awesome as possible. As Chris and Gary say, “It’s all about the beer, but beer is nothing without the people.”

The 12th Annual Festival of Ale is soon approaching! This popular fundraiser brings together over 20 brewers featuring over 70 mouthwatering beers. If you’re interested in trying a Berkshire beer, come on by our Festival of Ale on Saturday, September 22!

Lord of the Rings in Stainglass




Marines taking "big dog" for walk.



Do these Hobbit images reveal the very last scene in the first movie?

Do these Hobbit images reveal the very last scene in the first movie?

We've got a gaggle of amazing new images from The Hobbit, including some sultry images of both Fili and Kili looking hot with their dwarf selves. Here's hoping the hot new dwarf sensation will rekindle the flame of Tolkien whip burlesque. But in other, much more spoilery news, the app that these images came from also seems to set up the final scene in the first of the Hobbit trilogy.
Do these Hobbit images reveal the very last scene in the first movie? The new Hobbit app (available on itunes) debuted the images here, but it also changed the original Hobbit scroll released back during Comic Con.

Do these Hobbit images reveal the very last scene in the first movie? As you can see the final panel has been altered, leaving the folks at The One Ring to believe that the first movie will be ending when Gandalf throws pinecones at the wolves to set them on fire (or probably right before that moment). Which appears to be what the scroll has ended on. Works for us! Now time to drool over Fili and Kili some more.





Do these Hobbit images reveal the very last scene in the first movie?










Do these Hobbit images reveal the very last scene in the first movie?

Jupiter may have just saved Earth from a devastating impact event

Jupiter may have just saved Earth from a devastating impact event

Catacombs Set -Dwarven Forge