And the Winner is...

A big congratulations to Giancarlo Annese & Sarah Tobol from BeerUnion! They swooped in mere minutes before the deadline with a great smattering of Founders Beertography. The entry above was selected as the winner for its ability to make you thirsty AND haunt your dreams at the same time. I also really enjoyed their photo below, mainly because I recognize the color of the neck labels of Founders and therefore know this is a pretty darn impressive group shot.



Thanks to Founders for the prize pack donation and Special Thanks to all those who submitted entries. Keep your eyes peeled for the next beertography contest coming later this Summer! And if you have a brewery you'd like to suggest as the focus of the next contest, let me know!

In the meantime you may have noticed that there hasn't been a Beertography of the Week. This will be remedied early next week and all submissions of the past few weeks will be considered. Also, I'm happy to announce that beertography now has a Facebook Page that you can like if you feel like doing so. Also if you like the Facebook page, you'll be able to upload your beertography at any time! So lets review the options for beertographizing:

- via email at beertography@gmail.com
- via twitter, just use the #beertography tag & mention me if possible
- via facebook, upload directly to the page

Beertography Contest featuring Founders Brewing Company

Exciting news to start summer! We're having our first Official Beertography Contest! If you've been following our Beertography of the Week series, then you already know exactly what we're looking for. The twist here is that all of the entries must feature Founders Brewing Co. in order to be eligible. The winning selected entry will receive a Founders Brewing Prize Pack of brewery gear! We will accept entries for this contest from today, Monday June 6th until 11:59pm on Sunday June 19th and the winner will be announced by Wednesday June 22nd.

What are you waiting for? You should have already taken some Founders beertography by now! Check out these great examples straight from Founders' website!

Rules:

All submissions must be emailed to beertography@gmail.com with the subject line Beertography Contest before 11:59pm on Sunday June 19th.
All photo submissions must somehow feature Founders in order to be considered.
We're looking for a combination of most creative along with best photography here.
Winner will be announced on or before Wednesday June 22nd.
While I'd love to accept worldwide entries, the prize pack is only available to US residents.
Please also be sure to share your photo with Founders directly by uploading your submission to their Flickr page!

Any questions? Feel free to email or comment below. Good luck!

Beertography of the Week - June 1st

This week's Beertography of the Week comes to us from the fine folks at BeerCycling and continues our bike, beer & organic theme from last week's FoodCyclist feature. This has to be among the most unique of our user submissions so far and definitely the best to feature real live frogs. For those of you unfamiliar with HUB, it stands for Hopworks Urban Brewery and features an organic line of craft beers based out of Portland, OR. The beer being guarded by Kermit there is their fantastic Secession Cascadian Dark Ale which I highly recommend you seek out if you haven't had it already.

Were you inspired by the FoodCyclist's ambitious bike trip around the globe? You should probably check out BeerCycling and all of their beer-themed bicycle trips including one in BELGIUM! It sounds amazing.

Check out BeerCycling on the web or follow them on twitter.

Don't forget to email your beertography to beertography@gmail.com or you can just tag your tweet with #beertography and I'll save it for next week's entry.

Photos from Brooklyn Brewery's Concoction Release Party

Last week, the Brooklyn Brewery celebrated Garret Oliver's latest in his Brewmaster Reserve series, The Concoction. Based on the scotch cocktail "The Penicillin" this new offering combines peat smoked malt, minced ginger, lemon juice and wildflower honey to make for one unique drinking experience. Look for The Concoction to start hitting NYC area bars in Mid-June.





Head Brewmaster Garrett Oliver addresses the crowd and tells the tale of how "The Tonic" (The Concoction's original name) was rejected by the TTB and the mad scramble that occurred at the last possible minute. Cheers to bureaucracy!



CNN was also on hand to cover the event since they've been following Brewery founder Steve Hindy around. I was interviewed for a few minutes but I'm not sure it'll actually be used.



Your view of the party after having a few too many Concoctions.



Also provided were the new cans of Brooklyn Summer Ale which we just featured in our Beertography of the Week last week.

Biking For a Cause...and For Beer! An Interview with The Foodcyclist

John "Sussy" Suscovich aka The Foodcyclist recently walked away from his full-time job as a light board operator for Howard Stern to ride his bicycle around the world, promoting organic farming and healthy foods. After hearing about his trip on The Howard Stern Show and myself being a fan of all things organic, John's trip really intrigued me and I began following him on twitter. Soon after, he was tweeting from Yards, Victory and Flying Dog breweries... He was doing a whirlwind Northeast brewery tour and all from his bike! Interest: piqued.