Want a way to combine listening to records and drinking good beer that doesn't make you look like a total wanker? First of all, don't but the shirt pictured below. I love Vinyl Collective, and Virgil is a super-friendly, super-enthusiastic supporter of both good beer and independent music. This shirt, however, does nothing but make the wearer look like a total twit.
Magic Hat Brewery, out of Burlington, Vermont, has figured out a way to get past all that by simply naming a beer "Vinyl." Now, music and breweries have combined before (Durango's Ska Brewing Co., for instance -- try their Pinstripe Red Ale), but this beer is pretty nifty. It's a spring lager, and what says "spring" better than drinking beer and spinning records while you while away the hours?
Now, Magic Hat's just started making inroads to the area, so while you can find their (by all accounts delicious) #9 at places like the Record Bar and the Velvet Dog, their specialty beers might be a bit difficult to come by. Still -- I'm enough of a geek to buy a beer based on the name and the fact that the bottlecap looks like a record.
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Beer , I love beer . I often dink beer in meal with my family in summer and in all parties with friends.
Exciting! I remember a river of Magic Hat flowing through SXSW last year, and for a brief instant it made me think Paste magazine was kind of cool for giving it out for free. And though I was wrong about Paste, I do distinctly remember that beer being mighty tasty!
From one of the Magic Hat reps:
"We don't go to the variety packs of Magic Hat here in the metro until April. So you won't see any vinyl... however, come April you'll have our summer seasonal, Wacko. Awesome. And if you can't wait, St. Louis will have Vinyl in bottles starting the first of Feb."
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