With Facebook launching new Usernames this week, things got pretty insane at Facebook HQ, with Mashable.com releasing these photos from within the heart of it all. Here is a glimpse into the beverage culture at Facebook:

In the main picture of the blog, there is a bottle of Macallan 12, which tells me one of two things. Either the team is so confident that the username launch is going to go so well that a celebration is imminent, with a bottle of Scotch being the perfect libation to celebrate such a moment, or that things were going to get very terrifying very quickly, and Scotch may be the only thing to calm everyone’s nerves and keep morale up. Either way, a sound strategy. Continue Reading »

Most people have experienced the Mentos + soda experience. If you haven’t, the premise is simple: You put a Mentos into a glass or bottle of soda, and sh*t gets crazy and explodes. Simple, right?

But what if you want to use this technique to seek vengeance on your arch-nemesis? YOU’RE COVERED, because there is an old assassin’s trick perfect for this situation. Continue Reading »

Maynard James Keenan in the new film, Blood Into Wine

It’s getting to be pretty clear that with each day that passes, wine and fine beverage culture in America gets a little more incredible. More and more people are realizing that fine beverage is the missing link between the world we live in and the world we’ve created, and to exist in the heart of that link is something very difficult to walk away from once you’ve experienced it.

In today’s episode of why fine beverage culture rocks my world, we have the new trailer for “Blood Into Wine” , which chronicles Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s foray not only into the wine business, but into the wine business in the Sergio Leone-esque desert of Arizona with Caduceus. Continue Reading »

Cristina Jankovic sporting the Mutineer t’s at the LA WineFest

Mutineer Magazine sponsored this past weekend’s LA WineFest, a two-day event held at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, CA benefiting the Hollywood Wilshire YMCA, and the Children’s Tumor Foundation. Continue Reading »

Beer: Tower 10 IPA
Brewery: Karl Strauss
Style: India Pale Ale
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass

Karl Strauss Brewing Company located in San Diego California is a product of the 80s, in a good way. According to the website, Tower 10 IPA was born “Amid a sea of neon bikinis, Tower 10 marked the spot where two college grads and a 75 year-old master brewer drew up plans for the first local craft brewery in San Diego since Prohibition.” Anything to do with bikinis, beaches and beer I am into, and a cooler full of Tower 10 IPA would be a great addition to any beach visit. Tower 10 is brewed with Chinook, Cascade and Centennial hops giving it a hop punch that San Diego brewers have a reputation for. This is a great beer to pair with spicy foods such as curry dishes. To explore the world or Karl Strauss Brewing Company visit their website.

Wow. This video officially rocks my world. Created by Greg Koch of Stone Brewery with help from the fine people at Redtail Media, it puts faces to a typically faceless industry, ideas behind the beers we all enjoy, and makes a clear statement about what craft beer is all about. The video speaks for itself, please check it out. BRAVO.

Click here for the video.

“Hyper Glow” is a fictional beer that had me very pumped up until I realized that it doesn’t exist, and is was instead an April Fools Day joke. The explanation for the beer is simple:

“…our in staff beer chemists took the finest India Pale Ale (brewed with the choicest hops from Belgium farms), carefully added 220 milligrams of caffeine per sixteen ounce bottle, and, through a patent pending process known as ‘Glow Stuff Insertion’, they then inserted glow stuff. The result is a stimulating depressant which looks like runoff from Three Mile Island but tastes just like beer with caffeine and glow stuff in it!” Continue Reading »

Having heard of Founders Brewing Co. and never trying them, I figured what better time than now. Having been on a bit of a spending spree on beer recently and hearing nothing but amazing things from this Grand Rapids, Michigan brewery, it was time to finally put them to the test, which I would do with their Imperial Stout. Founded in 1997, owners Mike and Dave decided to break the norm of the beer industry and wanted to push the envelope of what people were used to, with more flavor, bigger body, huge aromatics, and increased complexity. In this search, they would find consumers looking for the same thing out of a brewery. And here at Mutineer Magazine, we can definitely appreciate their efforts and what they are all about. Taken from their website, “At Founders we don’t brew for the masses. We leave that up to the mainstream shooby-doers. Instead, we craft a beer for a chosen few, a small cadre of renegades and rebels who enjoy a beer that pushes the limits of what is commonly accepted as taste. In short, we make beer for people who appreciate something different. We make beer for people like us.” Well said. Continue Reading »