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flexively pulling my hand from an open flame retreating from some undefined danger music and conversation at stone rose s outside bar is never too loud and didn t drown out the muted clink of ice against glass as i raised the tequila for another sip at that moment i wondered what they saw in me from the other side of the bar after all they re me so they had to notice the same parallels it didn t take long for me to recognize that if they noticed me at all they surely didn t see themselves in me they didn t see a reasonably fit carefree 30 year old prosecutor that first visited scottsdale and they certainly didn t see the very very fit 40 year old version that came extremely close to being on the cast of survivor ii australian outback yep i still have the video to prove it they didn t see those versions because they only exist in that virtual time machine i mentioned earlier the version sitting at the bar that night was overweight balding i m ok with that and drinking alone i m ok with that too sometimes if those guys had projected out 20 years into their futures and seen themselves in me they d have been the ones reflexively retreating from the open flame they saw what i couldn t not with my mirror obscured by the blinding memories being thrown off by that prism their girlfriends joined them as i finished that second tequila another few rounds of laughter and they all headed of to dinner and to their next 20 years i stayed for one more the time machine might have been temporarily tarnished but i still had plenty of great memories to drink with though ironically they d probably best be forgotten as i finished i noticed an older gentleman had taken up a spot at one of the corners he was at least 15 years older than me alone and drinking a coors light from the bottle i only hoped that wasn t a glimpse of my future if senility does overtake me i pray my silver alert doesn t include the silver bullet there i forced this thing back to some modest if forced relevance to that catchy title share this share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in beer craft beer off topic social commentary travel tagged arizona bars beer buddies craft beer four peaks brewing friends memories mirrors scottsdale scottsdale princess stone rose tequila travel 2 comments june 18 2013 by the alemonger beer review a hurricane s hoppy lining lasting image of hurricane sandy first things first there s nothing good about hurricanes whether sandy katrina andrew or ones yet to be formed and named they kill people tear apart families destroy homes businesses futures and hope that said some of the finest examples of human kindness and compassion are often tragedy s most lasting memories first responders and nameless neighbors risking their own lives at the height of the storm to save people they ve never met and may never know physically unaffected people from every state in the country and from countries around the world donating their time resources and money to help crippled communities get back on their feet it s in that spirit that a small craft brewery which recently moved from cherry hill nj just a couple miles from my blogging global corporate campus and research facilities to somerdale nj lent a hand by brewing a special beer with profits donated to hurricane sandy relief efforts so that s what fu stood for all these years just about everyone in nj and all along the northeastern coast has more than one memory of hurricane sandy those of us who live in the area remember all too well where we were when it struck land and forever changed the geography of much of new jersey s shoreline i was lucky sort of i missed all the excitement because while sandy was wreaking havoc i was tethered to a hospital bed at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia 12 floors up with so many ivs in me that they must have thought i was an octopus too add insult to professionally planned and executed injury a k a major open abdominal surgery none of those ivs delivered craft beer but one offered up something a little more potent anyway sandy hit about 24 hours after i was told i might not survive the night and less than 24 hours after middle of the night trips through deserted corridors into the bowels of the hospital for emergency diagnostic studies as i said i was lucky the rest of you aren t i m still here to pester you with these posts while recuperating at home and rebuilding my strength with a diet of matzo ball soup and han dynasty dan dan noodles i saw a tweet from my home town craft brewers announcing that they were going to brew a very limited beer with all profits going to sandy relief efforts one reason why the release was going to be very limited was simply the fact that they couldn t bottle this beer it was going to be distributed in kegs only because there was no way they d get approval for labels no f n way not for a beer called fu sandy ale forever unloved yeah right flying fish brewery did a great thing by donating all of the profits from every keg of fu sandy to relief efforts but they did something else which has gone largely unnoticed they brewed a spectacular beer i ll admit it i m often a critic of local brews strongly favoring the bolder brighter beers of the california coast especially san diego s flagship west coast ipas as i wrote a few months back in my post on the converging coasts of craft beer i checked out many years ago but never left when it comes to a bias for west coast craft beer i m guilty as charged that said flying fish flat out nailed it with fu sandy i missed this beer when it was initially released chasing twitter feed sightings from bar to bar in the cherry hill area the day it was tapped no luck not until this past sunday night s fathers day outing to south jersey s finest craft beer bar the pourhouse my buddy and last h o p p e r standing and i were long overdue for what used to be a semi regular sunday night research session work week readjustment therapy session is more like it after some well deserved abuse for having become near strangers for our recent lack of patronage marci their rock startender said we have the last keg of fu sandy on that was all i needed to hear no need to read the tap list my fathers day started with a breakfast in bed treat with the whole family including the newest editions guinea pygmalians i ii my manes not the kids they ve changed names so many times that i honestly don t know what they are and it would end with an unexpected craft beer treat a happy hoppy fathers day flying fish describes fu sandy as a hybrid pale wheat ale brewed with an experimental hop variety dubbed adha 483 the experiment worked gloriously so big bright tropical aromas exploded from the glass plenty of fresh mango guava and grapefruit those flavors carried through to the flavor balanced beautifully by the lightly toasted biscuity notes from the wheat side of this blended style family even though this isn t an ipa it has all of the hallmarks of an exceptional one a west coast profile at that silky mouthfeel and a crisp moderately dry finish a legitimate contender for the best craft beer i ve had so far this year along with stone enjoy by 12 21 12 three floyds zombie dust and 512 pecan porter by far the best beer that s ever come out of flying fish and one worthy of mention along with the best brewed anywhere a heady topper topper hands down don t get me wrong these guys turn out a few other really nice brews including exit 1 exit 6 and exit 16 but this one is in a class all it s own a world class so while jersey may best be known for springsteen bon jovi the sopranos and those horrific tomatoes i nominate flying fish fu sandy for a spot on the list of jersey s icons it s that good and it did some good cheers share this share on reddit opens in new 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surprised to see my old audi tt buddy jason post a status update involving magic hat they ve never impressed me as anything more than modestly mediocre and after selling out to what s now a south american conglomerate they ve lost their identity but i thought i d give jason s link a shot anyway having read the recap of a lawsuit brought by magic hat against west sixth a small craft brewery in kentucky i became more firmly convinced that magic hat has lost more than it s identity it s lost any semblance of the character of shared spirit and cooperation that s been the hallmark of the craft brewing industry more importantly i was left wondering if this is perhaps an example or glimpse of the inevitable types of bigger business corporate behavior that the craft brewing industry s success was bound to generate are we reaching an important tipping point in an ever more crowded landscape or this merely the result of an international bully breaking the unwritten rules inverted object or perverted logic photo courtesy of beeradvocate com so here s the skinny newly sold and foreign conglomerate owned magic hat claims that tiny independent kentucky newbie west sixth copied stole their 9 logo you can read more about the suit and allegations of enormous financial damage here before i go too much further a bit of a disclaimer is in order i like craft beer i research write about and evangelize the wonders of well crafted ales to all who may and to some who absolutely don t care to hear about it that said my love of craft beer doesn t pay the bills never has and never will the bills are paid by something i don t love not these days anyway i m a recovering litigator i spent over 20 years in courtrooms as a prosecutor criminal defense attorney and civil litigator i ve handled over 100 jury trials from murder rape child abuse drug distribution and robbery to construction and roofing defects commercial manufacturing disputes products liability and copyright trademark infringement i ve put murderers in prison for the rest of their lives and defended companies against disastrous multi million dollar lawsuits in other words when it comes the subject matter of one brewery suing another i know a little something from every angle so what s really going on here is magic hat or whoever they really are flexing their deep corporate pockets by filing a frivolous suit betting that a small southern start up brewery will meekly submit or do they have a legitimate if unpopular point well the recovering litigator in me can t help but conclude that it s a little bit of both there are always many more than two sides to a story don t get too far ahead of me here yes i genuinely believe that there is some merit to part of magic hat s claims but whatever merit exists is soundly overwhelmed by simple common sense and good craft beer citizenship when it comes to that magic hat is failing miserably are the logos similar well maybe a bit by definition a 6 is an inverted 9 but all due respect to the legal mind that thought that argument up it s ridiculous the fonts share some style cues and they each have a special character adjacent to the number but aside from that they aren t easily confused except by cirque de soleil trainees between two a day tryout sessions and that s mostly because of their frenchness irreperable harm and enormous financial damage i think not i know not not now anyway that said these types of suits are generally brought to protect the owner s mark from future damage west sixth certainly isn t planning to expand into vermont anytime soon but magic hat can t know that and they re statutorily required to aggressively protect their mark and corporate image at this stage or risk being precluded from protecting it tomorrow and there s the rub but it doesn t have to be that way west sixth has made what appear to be legitimate offers to resolve this thing like grown craft beer men not unlike what adam avery and vinnie cilurzo did when they realized that both avery and russian river had a salvation in their lineups the result was collaboration not litigation ale that s the way craft brewers have dealt with one another for the most part throughout the last decade of the industry s monumental growth even the truly big boys like sierra nevada have gone out of their way to support the local smaller brewers in north carolina when they announced their new brewery near asheville sniping amongst and between craft brewers as the landscape becomes that much more saturated may be somewhat inevitable but doesn t have to be ugly not magic hat ugly in any event i imagine i ve just become a target of one of their cease and desist letters because i used social media to call them ugly black magic hat s prototype logo i don t know that new logo concept isn t all that ugly not mona lisa or a pontiac aztec ugly anyway it kind of captures the spirit of the new regime magic hat s new brew cauldron their nifty new brew kettles fit the image nicely as well looks like a batch of odd notion or roxy rolles ready for the lauter tun oh one more thing magic hat don t forget to mention in your cease and desist letter that my refusal to purchase one or two six packs of your mediocre beer this year will inflict enormous financial damage cheers and don t forget to chime in share this share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in beer beer news brewers craft beer rants tagged bad business beer beer news brewers craft beer lawsuits magic hat news rants sierra nevada social media trademark west sixth 4 comments may 20 2013 by the alemonger nice cans you can t judge a book by it s cover but you can judge a beer by it s can it was a really long day a really long day at the end of a really bad week i didn t realize just how frayed i was until i noticed after 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