Celebrate 20 Years Of The Dog At Our FBAG Party

The People’s Republic of Flying Dog is now in session. It’s happy hour at Flying Dog Brewery, so here is your latest dose of irreverence.

Sample Our New 20th Anniversary Brew, And Come To Our Beer Dinner

Flying Dog Brewery got into this beer racket in 1990 in the form of a small brewpub in Aspen, Colorado. For those of you who aren’t mathematically inclined, that means 2010 marks our 20th anniversary. For those of you who are more familiar with dog years, you could say it’s our 93rd anniversary, making us one of the oldest craft breweries around (which admittedly sounds like fuzzy math). That being said, we’re starting off our 20th anniversary celebratory year a little early. Join us in Denver for GABF next month to help us kick off a year full of festivities.

Great American Beer Festival tickets are going fast. So fast, in fact, that Friday night and Saturday Afternoon sessions are already SOLD OUT. So if you want to come, buy your tickets for Thursday or Saturday night. STAT.

As we mentioned two weeks ago, we’re once again throwing our incredibly bad ass (and free) FBAG party on Friday, September 25th (3-6PM). Join upwards of 1000 people at our FBAG party, and be some of the first people to sample our brand-spanking-new 20th Anniversary beer.

Like last year, we’ll be making our famous Gonzo Beer Brats for you to enjoy while you walk around and sample our award-winning ales. Also like last year, FBAG is a stop on the BeerAdvocate Pub Crawl. We had the Alström brothers and their huge mass of pub crawlers swing by to spice things up (especially since they started drinking well before noon), and looking forward to it again this time around. Music will be provided by Rob Drabkin and his band, as they totally rocked last year’s FBAG (watch this HD video to see what last year was like).

A quick note that we’ll be hosting a beer dinner at Brauns Bar & Grill in Denver the Saturday of GABF. We’ll have ticket purchasing information at flyingdognews.com. Check out the menu at the event page of our website.

Go Gonzo(Fest)

We’re still giving you the chance to save $10 on your GonzoFest ticket, but GonzoFest is rapidly approaching! We’re only about 2 weeks away from our annual Throwdown in Frederick Maryland on September 12. So click on the image above to go to our secure ordering site and get your tickets before time runs out. We’ve also secured discounted hotel rooms the weekend of GonzoFest (although deals can also be found on Hotwire/Travelocity/Kayak-type sites): Courtyard Marriott ($99/night)
Holiday Inn at Francis Scott Key Mall ($99/night)
Hilton Garden Inn ($99/night)
Another cool thing is that we’ve partnered with Yellow Cab of Frederick. On Sept. 12, mention Gonzofest when you get picked up by a Yellow Cab of Frederick taxi and get a $10 fare between downtown and the Brewery ($10 total fare, max. of 4 people). We want you to drink responsibly, so please use designated drivers and taxis.
We’re also conducting our Hunter S. Thompson lookalike contest, and awesome Gonzo-themed prizes will be given to some of the best costumes. So start putting your outfit together. Need inspiration? This is a good place to start.

And as you probably know, GonzoFest admission includes: Beer, Music, Souvenir Mug, Chili Competition Samples and all-around Good Karma: A portion of the proceeds benefit United Way of Frederick County.

We’re really excited for GonzoFest this year, get more information and buy tickets at our GonzoFest website.

Work With The Ingredients You Have To Come Up With Something Delicious: An Interview With Lucy Saunders At beerdinners.com

Do you ever eat food and drink beer at the same time? (That’s a stupid question, actually, because who doesn’t like that shit?) Well, if you’re in the 100% of people who answered yes, you should be checking out beerdinners.com, our website dedicated to pairing great craft beer with great food.

Last week we posted a recent interview we conducted with Lucy Saunders, one of the most respected beer and food writers around. Aside from writing some wonderful books about beer and food, she’s also an accomplished cook. Check out our interview over at beerdinners.com.

Beer and Loathing in Columbus, Ohio

Studio 35 is Columbus, Ohio’s oldest independent movie theater and draft house. Recently, Studio 35 showed Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and featured a plethora of Flying Dog beer on tap. We found out about this via Studio 35’s twitter site. We were also contacted via twitter by Shaun Adams, who attended the event. He snapped some photos and was nice enough to answer a few questions about the venue, the beer, and the experience of watching Fear & Loathing while drinking beer inspired by the late, great Dr. Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson.

Read our interview with Shaun over at flyingdognews.com

Cheers! Until next time, -Josh

P.S.: We asked Ralph Steadman for some fun art this week and below is what he passed on to us. Here’s his caption (and another reason we love you, Ralph). “Here is a mean face t give to your imbibers as though the world owed them a living. They are only owed one beer. After that they pay!!!”