Mark your calendars for May 11-12th and fire up the old electronic travel agent, because tickets are about to go on sale for the Copenhagen Beer Celebration. We'll be joining dozens of wonderful breweries from around the world for a one-of-a-kind event. A little closer to the horizon, anyone with the urge to visit Reno this weekend had better not pass up the 3rd Annual Canfest, Reno's International Canned Beer Festival. It'll be happening at the Silver Legacy Resort & Casino this coming Saturday the 12th of November. The VIP event starts at 5pm, and general admission an hour later at 6pm.

More equipment delays have us, once again, pushing back the release of our new can labels. Our head brewer doesn't remember ever having a day of smashing mirrors while walking with black cats under ladders, but it's getting harder to discount that one happened.

On the upside, we're happy to announce that we've reached an agreement with Atlantic Importing Company to carry our beers in Massachusetts. The first cans of Siamese Twin Ale, Golden State Ale, and Baltic Porter should start turning up on store shelves later this month.

It's a bit short notice, but we're pouring beer in Redwood City at the peninsula Oktoberfest all day long. We'll also be down at the San Jose Biocenter for a special event this coming Wednesday. Check out the link for a special event discount. Dr. Charlie Bamforth, the UC Davis God of All Beer Knowledge will be speaking... and we'll be pouring our finest beers of course.

We were settling in for a nice quiet recovery from the Great American Beer Festival when the email server started going bonkers this morning. It was a quite pleasant surprise to find an article up on MSNBC's main page offering kind words about our Bacon Brown Ale. A lot of people have been in touch with us about the beer, asking where they can find it, and if we ship it out of state. We'll be doing our best to get back to everyone who wrote, but in the meantime:

1. Yes, it does exist. Our Bacon Brown Ale is a CCOF Certified Organic beer that's brewed with bacon and buckwheat.

2. For the near term the Bacon Brown is only available on draft at a few select locations in Santa Cruz, California. We'll be brewing another batch in the coming weeks. Assuming that all the labels get through the approval process smoothly, there will be 16oz cans of Bacon Brown Ale joining the rest of our lineup before the end of the year.

3. Keep an eye out for our beers, and definitely ask for them if you don't see them, in Whole Foods, BevMo, and other quality markets and liquor stores around the Bay Area. We'll be starting up distribution in the Sacramento and I-80 corridor in the coming weeks. Further afield, it's possible to find our beers in Oregon, Nevada, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. As soon as the Bacon Brown cans are finished we'll be doing a big push with our distributors in those states to get it out in draft and onto store shelves.

cheers, alec