Oskar Blues does an Obama poster for DNC, Flat Earth celebrates the GOP
By William Brand
Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 12:17 pm in Craft Beer, Festivals, Food and Beer, General.
…The Democratic National Convention is getting underway this afternoon and Denver’s many craft breweries are taking part big-time. Charlie Papazian, founder of the Brewers Association has a roundup, they include my fave, Obamanator from Wynkoop.
The one that caught my eye this morning is a poster from Oskar Blues Brewery in Lyons, CO. (Hint: They make Dale’s Pale Ale, the one in cans.) It’s a takeoff on Obama’s Hope poster. 
But what about the GOP. So far, according to Papazian, the only craft brewer to come out with a convention special in Minneapolis, where the Republican National Convention begins next week is Flat Earth Brewing, St. Paul. Gee. Why do I find the name appropriate for the GOP?
Yes, yes. I know Flat Earth’s a reference to the boundless prairies that extend west from Minnesota into the infinity of my home state of Nebraska. Howsoever, I’m still laughing.
One more DNC tidbit, again from Oskar Blues. The brwery furnished the beer for a benefit for New Orleans last night in Denver. The $500 a plate gala was sold out and raised about $1.5 million. Well done. New Orleans is one of our greatest cities and it was hit hard by Katrina and spurned and ignored for too long by …well you know who,…those flat earth folks., No, not the brewery.
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August 25th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Actually New Orleans was “ignored” because local officials couldn’t get their act together to administer aid, something that was clearly their responsibility if you read their disaster plans, a shame they couldn’t meet their people’s needs. A tragedy on top of another.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
This is no place for politics. However, I know that New Orleans government is notoriously corrupt. The fact that the Bush administration had a political lackey in charge of FEMA didn’t help either. And I know a lot about FEMA from the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 and the Eastebay Hills fire in 1991. The agency is its own bureaucratic nightmare and neither the Democrators nor the Republicans had done a damn thing to fix it, when Katrina struck.
It’s easy to fix blame almost anywhere you look. It happened that Bush & Company were in charge, so they get the lion’s share of criticism. Luck of the draw, huh.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Flat Earth Brewing Convention Ale bottles have been exploding. The brewery had the same problem with all of their beers a couple months ago and had to pull them from stores.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Just talked to Flat Earth in St., Paul. It’s true. One bottle of Convention Ale exploded, so they took all Convention Ale off the market as a precaution. They don’t think it was a Democratic plot, by the way, just possibly too much yeast in the bottles.