I have told my dear readers multiple times to head over to Good Beer Hunting to check out the work of my buddy, Michael Kiser. You can head over there again if you’d like, but this post is asking you to do me — and Michael, who just quit his job to focus on GBH full-time — a solid and vote for him to win SAVEUR Magazine’s Best Food Blog award for the Beer and Wine category.
The Redeye has a nice piece about GBH and another Chicago candidate (of only six total), Guys Drinking Beer, if you’d like to read it.
Voting ends Friday.
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Kiser, aka Good Beer Hunting, during Solemn Oath Brewery’s inaugural Oath Day. I’m a big fan of his work and we’re both big fans of Solemn Oath, so we spent a couple hours talking cameras over beers. Even though I still consider myself a beer noob, for whatever reason he decided to feature me on his HUNTER/Gatherer series. Head over there if you want to read a little history about my beer drinking habits and click around the newly redesigned GBH site while you’re at it. Be sure to also check out his Collaborations page because he’s been up to some pretty awesome stuff lately.
Photo by Michael Kiser
The Beacon’s “summer beer” feature is online and includes some of my photos from Solemn Oath last week. Here’s an outtake.
The guys at Solemn Oath Brewery were kind enough to let me hang out for part of a brew yesterday for an upcoming story for the paper. This rarely happens when I have my cameras with me, but one of my favorites of the day came from my phone. More to come once the story goes live.
A quick, crude mock up of what I could imagine happening to Goose Island’s popular 312 now that they sold out to one of the Big Three — and AB was bought by InBev a few years back. Goose Island is now a subsidiary of a company based in Belgium.
EDIT: Thanks to Karl for using this on the Guys Drinking Beer recap of the sale.