Just a quick post to point out that The Durango Telegraph, our local alt-weekly, has a story about the Ska Brewing Co. – Beer Blogger collaboration beers. Beer Blogger by Kinsee Morlan Ska Brewing Co. head brewer Thomas Larsen is showing Chuck Slothower the ropes – or the tubes as the case may be. “We need... »
This Saturday, Febrary 13th at 5pm we’ll be tapping the Ska Brewing Co. Beer Blogger CollaBEERation brews at the Ska Brewing Co. tap room. If you haven’t been following along, Ska Brewing Co. invited myself and the Soggy Coaster of Beer at 6512 to each brew a beer on their 10 gallon pilot system. We... »
While the roads are still icy and it’s not quite outdoor riding season yet, there are two indoor races coming up in the next couple weeks in Durango. On Tuesday February 16th, 5:30PM at The Hub Training Center they’ll be holding Computrainer races. I’ve heard these Computrainers are pretty sweet. I’ve heard there will be... »
Many hop heads agree that Russian River Brewing Co.’s Pliny the Elder is one of the best IPA’s out there. It’s not big news in most Western cities when Pliny is on tap at a local bar. But here in the Four Corners we don’t see Pliny too often. I’ve never seen Pliny on... »
When most people think of Mexican beer, craft beer isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Until recently the craft beer selection in Tijuana, Mexico’s sixth largest city, was rather limited. Sure there’s Cerveza Tijuana and if you were lucky you might find some of Mexicali based Cucapa Brewing Co.’s beers in... »
The second annual Ska Brewing Snowdown Homebrew Competition took place this past Saturday at Ska Brewing. 71 home brewed beers were entered and Clancy Calhoun of Aztec, NM walked away with Best in Show for “Clancy’s Black Beer” a dark lager. Clancy will brew a full batch of “Clancy’s Black Beer” at Ska Brewing Co.... »
I’ve written a bit about Snowdown (Carver Beard Growing Contest and Ska Brewing Co’s Hyper Fierce Gnar Gnar Hefe), and now that it’s upon us I thought I’d post some of the beer and bike related events. As expected there are more beer related events than bike related events. In fact I’m not sure... »
Kinsee and I are doing a radio show on KDUR, every Sunday from 12:30-3pm. Each week we’ll have a theme with produced pieces, we’ll have various segments where we talk about different things, and music. We’ll be podcasting as much as possible of the show on our website This Small Town Life. The reason I’m... »
A little over a week ago I went to Ska Brewing early on a Saturday morning and met head brewer Thomas Larsen and we got to work brewing our beer. You can read the recipe here, and in that blog post I forgot to mention the yeast we were to use, which is the... »
