
If I’m honest, at times I have what could be considered a “Han Solo” mentality about social media. Like, the first time I was hanging with Gary Vaynerchuk in Jersey and talking about social media and eating lasagna, I told him flat out, “Kid, I’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff, but I’ve never seen anything to make me believe that there’s one all-powerful Force controlling everything. Cause no mystical energy field controls my destiny. It’s all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.” But he persisted, and today I’m excited to say that social media is getting me one step closer to time travel. Continue Reading »

Big news; the publishing company behind Mutineer Magazine officially turns two today! This is the equivalent of 14 dog years or 120 business-in-a-recession years, and we are PUMPED to have blasted our way through this most dark and depressing of financial times. The Mutineer Holiday Subscription Drive is booming and we are hoping it can be the thing that finally turns this recession around.
In other news, we received an award from the upstanding Jeff Lefevere at GoodGrape for “Most Improved Player”, saying: Continue Reading »

Repeal Day was this last Saturday, December 5. We would’ve posted about it, but we were too busy with our Repeal Day celebrations. Some bloggers must’ve planned ahead to get their posts up; here are a few that caught our eye.
RepealDay.org is 100% Repeal Day awesomeness, complete with your favorite excerpts from the U.S. Constitution.
WashingtonBeerBlog offers a nice post that sums up what Repeal Day is all about. “What is Repeal Day, you ask?” Yup, that’s part of the post…told ya.
BeerGenius celebrates his Repeal Day with some famous beverage quotes from famous people.
Hop-Cast brought the fine folks from 21st Amendment Brewery in to chat on the video blog.

The Beer Wench recounts her San Diego Beer Week experience. [Drink With The Wench]
A very cool look at Firestone Walker XIII & Life and Limb/Limb & Life [BetterBeerBlog]
Brewery housed in old school for sale in Texas. I want it. Bad. [I Love Beer] Continue Reading »

6 million bottles of wine are destroyed in a warehouse fire caused by arson in a botched attempt to destroy evidence relating to other crimes. [Fermentation]
The good doctor is pumped about little Italian kids getting wine themed coloring projects. [Dr. Vino]
Team Lenndevours is on a mission to identify the best of the best in New York with their New York Cork Report. [Lenndevours] Continue Reading »

Oh yes…Mutineer Issue 8 is upon us, and I can’t tell you how PUMPED I am about it. For an overview of the issue 8 features, check out the preview post from last week.
Before we get into detail, here is the complete list of blogger contributors:
Erin Jimcosky of The Endive Chronicles
Joe Roberts of 1WineDude
Katie Pizzuto of Gonzo Gastronomy
Marina Orlova of Hot For Words
Robert Hess of The Cocktail Spirit & DrinkBoy
Tim Lemke of CheapWineRatings
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