Robert Benmosche is aspiring to be a wine revolutionary as he tries to build a reputation for Croatian wines with his new winery. This would typically pump me up, except that when Mr. Benmosche isn’t making wine, he’s tasked with running one of the most important and unstable mega corporations in America, AIG, which enjoyed a $182.5 BILLION loan from you, me and everyone else in America, which is roughly the same amount as the entire Gross Domestic Product of Chile.
Wearing flip-flops, khaki shorts and a green polo shirt, the new chief executive of bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc says he’s getting a lot of work done from his massive villa overlooking the Adriatic. Continue Reading »
A singed bottle of beer recovered from the ashes of the Hindenburg disaster is expected to fetch $4,000 to $8,000 at auction this weekend — the highest price ever for a bottle of beer. Continue Reading »
Special news correspondent Dr. Steve Brule is featured in this clip from the Tim and Eric Awesome Show about wine and wine country. You may recognize Dr. Steve (John C. Reilly) from his work in Boogie Nights, Step Brothers, and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, but this clip firmly establishes him as a wine personality right up there with the best of them. Here are a few quotables from his segment:
“I don’t even like wine, but guess what, you’re gonna like it.”
“Supposed to spit it out…but no way Jose!”
“Sweetberry wine!”
The Mutineer was tipped off to this glorious video by fellow Mutineer Corben Ketelsen of skiwineracks.com.
Avery isn’t the only awesome brewery coming out with their third installment of an awesome series of beer as Odell prepares to release their Woodcut No. 3. The third of their Woodcut barrel-aged series, No. 3 follows No. 1, an oak aged ale and No. 2, an oak aged golden ale. No. 3 is an oak aged crimson ale that after primary fermentation, it is chilled and then transferred to virgin American oak barrels to age and once it’s finally ready, the brewers will evaluate various barrel blends before finally choosing the blend to bottle. As with the other beers in the Woodcut series, Woodcut No. 3 is bottle conditioned in 750ml Champagne-style bottles and then corked and caged. Continue Reading »
Ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes, the Government’s chief drug adviser claims today.
Professor David Nutt is calling for a new ‘index of harm’ to warn the public about the relative dangers of various substances.
He says alcohol should rank fifth, behind only cocaine, heroin, barbiturates and methadone, while tobacco should rank ninth, ahead of cannabis, LSD and Ecstasy.Continue Reading »
Number 3 in Avery’s Barrel-Aged Series, Black Tot is an imperial oatmeal stout aged in Gosling’s Rum barrels and the artwork has just been released. With big shoes to fill following Brabant which was a zinfandel barrel-aged wild ale limited to 12,500 bottles and the more recent Suit Generis which was a barrel-aged sour ale limited to only 128 cases, I don’t think anyone will be let down by this one. Limited at 396 cases, I expect Black Tot to be a brewery only release, just as Sui Generis was, and it is planned to be released January 2010.
Mutineer Magazine is proud to be sponsoring Wine 2.0 Expo New York for the second year in a row. The event will take place at Webster Hall in New York on November 18th. Tickets available here with the discount code "mutineer" getting you 10% off your ticket!
November 5, 2009
Check out Mutineer Editor Alan Kropf's interview with Carly Milne on Digital City as he dishes on a subject he rarely touches: The best wineries in America. Beware, may include such descriptors as "scary good", "soul rattling" and "phenomenal".
