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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.
Having Fun Without You
Hopefully, the title isn’t true for you but if it is, our videos this week are designed to make you jealous. The first video is of the Savor Craft Beer & Food festival that I was flogging for about a month. We paired our Gonzo Imperial Porter with raspberry-filled artisan chocolates and  Kerberos Tripel with Peking Duck purses. All the big-wigs in craft beer were there, including our Lead Dog Eric Warner. Take a look to see what you missed out on, and perhaps next Savor you’ll be on top of it.
Our second video is from Artomatic, the epic art event in Washington, D.C. - 1000 artists, 9 floors, 250,000 square feet, 2 music stages and more. Artomatic kicked off on May 9th and runs through this Sunday. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out, get there this weekend because you are seriously missing out. We hope to help the Artomatic folks spread this idea across the country, but until then you’ll have to settle for this video tease. Click on the image or this link to watch.Technology can be a bitch sometimes…
Due to some complications with our Text & Win promotion, only AT&T is currently working for your texting and winning awesomeness. Below is a list of service providers and dates when you will be able to send your text messages.

AT&T - UP NOW! Text & Win!
T-Mobile or Sprint - week of June 17th
Verizon - week of June 24th

Essentially what happened is the company we were going to use for the promotion went out of business at the last second and we were caught with our pants down, to use the parlance of our times. We are really sorry for any inconvenience this has caused and hope you will stick with us and participate in the promotion when things are up and running.

If you would like updates on when each of these providers come online, send us an email at bullshit@flyingdogales.com. Please include your
name and mobile phone provider.

Thanks for sticking with us,
Frustrated at Flying Dog
Open Source Beer ProjectFor those of you who regularly follow our newsletter you probably know about our Open Source Beer Project that we launched about this same time last year. We invited home brewers to help us create the recipe for our next Wild Dog Specialty Series release and had an overwhelming response. Now, we are looking to expand the Open Source Beer Project into the latest version 1.1 or 2.0. Seeing this is open source we thought we would solicit ideas from the People’s Republic of Flying Dog. We will be accepting concepts from June 18th through July 18th. If your idea is used you will win one of the limited edition Ralph Steadman signed bottles of Gonzo Imperial Porter that we released in 2005 (pictured here). Check out the contest page on June 18th for more details or email you idea to bullshit@flyingdogales.com.

What People Are Saying About UsMostly unsolicited outside opinions about our beer and our company from the media and world wide web. To read what people are saying about us click on the links below.

We just wanted to let people know that AT&T is now on-board with our Text and Win promotion, so those of you lucky people who use AT&T can text and win!

If you take a photo of yourself enjoying the free Flying Dog swag and add it to our Flickr group, we’ll take the best photos and will post them here as they come in.

(If you don’t know what Flickr is, it’s a free photo sharing site - very easy to set up, and don’t worry, they don’t sell your name to some crazy spammers or anything. A great tool for sharing things with your friends over the internet.)

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Technology can be a bitch sometimes…

Due to some complications we have temporarily delayed our Text and Win promotion. Below is a list of service providers and dates when you will be able to send your text messages.

AT&T - End of the week (June 7)
T-Mobile or Sprint - June 14
Verizon - June 21

Essentially what happened is the company we were going to use for the promotion went out of business at the last second and we were caught with our pants down, to use the parlance of our times. We are really sorry for any inconveniences this has caused and hope you will stick with us and participate in the promotion when things are up and running.

If you would like updates on when each of these providers come online, send us an email at bullshit@flyingdogales.com. Please include your name and mobile phone provider.

Thanks for sticking with us,
Frustrated at Flying Dog

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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.Summer Finds Its Savior
No summer would be complete without the annual appearance of Flying Dog’s Summer seasonal, Woody Creek White. Flying Dog’s most popular seasonal will be available through September and although I don’t like to support global warming, the heat just makes this beer taste better. Click here for more on Woody Creek White or check out the story found on the label below:

“Flying Dog Brewery founder George Stranahan is widely considered to be the unofficial mayor of Woody Creek, Colorado. George and his collection of social misfits known as “Woody Creatures” are the reason this mountain community has morphed into Gonzo Ground Zero. This unfiltered and traditionally spiced Wit Beer pay tribute to this hotbed of progressive thought.” It Texts And Wins, Or It Gets The Hose Again.
The only thing better than drinking Flying Dog is winning free shit while you do it. This summer, Flying Dog is holding our first “Text and Win” promotion. If you don’t know how to text message, you need to leave the 1990s behind and use this fancy device called the internet to figure things out (or ask anyone under the age of 30). Prizes include t-shirts, pint glasses, hats and more. Look for neck hangers on specially marked Flying Dog 6-packs and 4-packs to enter. Check out the Text and Win page at FlyingDogAles.com for full details.


Brilliant ArtWe always like to think of our brewers as artists in their own right - that’s why we have a world-class artist like Ralph Steadman grace the labels of our “Liquid Mona Lisas”. For that reason, I feel it’s my duty to share with you brilliant artistic talent when I find it. Blu, a street artist from Italy, recently released a video entitled MUTO. Despite your personal feelings about graffiti art, one must admit this is pure genius. Check out this link or click on the image to view MUTO or visit BluBlu.org.
What People Are Saying About UsMostly unsolicited outside opinions about our beer and our company from the media and world wide web. To read what people are saying about us click on the links below.

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.
Ralph Steadman Turns 72Thursday is the 72nd birthday of Gonzo Artist and Flying Dog label illustrator Ralph Steadman. We hope you all will raise a glass to our co-conspirator and honor him with some borderline insanity.

Ralph, we hope that your crazy genius lasts another 72 years.

The A-Team Talks Kerberos Tripel

Executive Brewer Matt Brophy and Eric Warner, Flying Dog’s Lead Dog, recently got together to drink some of our new Kerberos Tripel. As usual, Matt was more than happy to get on camera and share his creation with the People’s Republic of Flying Dog. On the other hand, Eric (being the prima donna that he is) required blue M&M’s and French bottled water on his “rider” to get him on camera. Click here to get some knowledge dropped on you by what Eric refers to as “The A-Team”.Savor Hits D.C.I have been pumping this event up for the past few weeks like it’s the second coming of the Messiah. Well the time has come to see for yourself; that is if you can find a ticket. Flying Dog Brewery is partnering with the Brewer’s Association (the producers of the Great American Beer Festival) to bring you Savor, America’s premier food and beer event. We will be exhibiting there, complete with samples of our highly-regarded Canis Major Series, recipes from BeerDinners.com and food pairings. We will also be joining other craft breweries as attendees experience a reception-style sampling of their choice of 35+ sweet and savory appetizers and 96 craft beers. For more information, visit SavorCraftBeer.com
Canis Major Mixed 4-PackFlying Dog is in the midst of releasing one of our most unique offerings to date. Our Canis Major Mixed 4-pack contains one each of our four high-gravity offerings from our Canis Major series (which includes Gonzo Imperial Porter, Double Dog Double Pale Ale, Horn Dog Barley Wine and Kerberos Tripel). To our knowledge, this is the only package of its kind available in the marketplace - and seeing that variety is the spice of life, consider yourself now officially less boring.

What People Are Saying About Us Mostly unsolicited, outside opinions about our beer and our company from the media and world wide web. To read what people are saying about us click on the links below.

Flying Dog Seeing TripleReferred to as the “Olympics of beer”, the World Beer Cup is a bi-annual competition put on by the Brewer’s Association
that brings together the best beers from the best breweries in the world. Winners were selected by an international panel of 129 beer judges from 21 countries. With 2,864 entries from 644 breweries in 58 countries, walking away with an award is no small feat. Flying Dog’s brew team had one of the best showings at the World Beer Cup, winning three awards. Gonzo Imperial Porter received Gold for American-Style Imperial Stout, Old Scratch Amber Lager had a repeat win (from 2006) of a Silver award win for American-Style Amber Lager and Wild Goose IPA, a brew we make for the Mid-Atlantic region, won Gold for English-Style IPA. Be proud, fellow members of the People’s Republic of Flying Dog; some well-deserved recognition is here.
Savor ReminderFlying Dog is partnering with the Brewer’s Association, the producers of the Great American Beer Festival, to bring you Savor, America’s premier food and beer event. Flying Dog will be exhibiting, complete with samples of our highly-regarded Canis Major Series, recipes from BeerDinners.com and food pairings. We will also be joining other craft breweries as attendees experience a reception-style sampling of their choice of 35+ sweet and savory appetizers and 96 craft beers. For tickets, visit SavorCraftBeer.com.
What People Are Saying About Us Mostly unsolicited, outside opinions about our beer and our company from the media and world wide web. To read what people are saying about us click on the links below.

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.

Kerberos Released On Unsuspecting Public The long-awaited arrival of our Belgian-style Tripel is upon us. Named after the mythical Greek three-headed dog that guards the gates of hell, Kerberos is a traditional Belgian-style Tripel with a dark golden color has a sweet flavor with a dry and spicy finish. This nectar of the Gods is deceptively strong at 8.5% and is bottle conditioned for an authentic flavor. Beer nerd stuff below:

ABV: 8.5%
Plato: 19
Specialty Malts: 2-Row Pilsner, Aromatic
Hops: German Perle, French Strisserspalt, Saaz
Process: Bottle conditioned to create authentic Tripel character.



Check out www.FlyingDogAles.com for more on Kerberos and the rest of the Flying Dog litter of ales.
Cross Country TourFrom April 25th-28th the Flying Dog RV will be taking a tour down I-70 to the east coast. Because a 28-hour drive is long enough to make anyone ponder their existence, I thought it would be fun to spice up the trip with a contest. If you get a picture of the RV on the road during our journey and email it to me at bullshit@flyingdogales.com with the date, time, and location you took the picture, I will send you a gift package full of Flying Dog gear. If you don’t live anywhere near I-70 (which will prevent you from participating), you can take comfort in the fact that you get the consolation prize. You are miles away from my road rage and I won’t be rear-ending you when you’re talking on your cell phone while driving like an asshole.Flying Dog Lands At #29 In Craft Beer RankingsWe here at Flying Dog want to extend our gratitude to all those out there in the People’s Republic of Flying Dog for making us one of the country’s top 30 craft beer breweries. The numbers, just released by the Brewer’s Association (www.beertown.org), have Flying Dog jumping several spots from 2006. We appreciate the support - and get those livers trained because we expect you to step up and land us in the top 20 this year.Our Quest For World Domination ContinuesOn Monday, a container chock-full of delicious Flying Dog brews will start its journey to Singapore. As our latest addition to the People’s Republic of Flying Dog, Singaporeans will join the likes of Austria, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, UK (and more!), further strengthening our ever-growing international contingent. Now if only the Brewery would pony up the cash to send me on a 4-month long “sales tour” to all those regions. I get no respect.What People Are Saying About Us Mostly unsolicited, outside opinions about our beer and our company from the media and world wide web. To read what people are saying about us click on the links below. This week we have a ton of Garde Dog reviews.

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.Flying Dog Sponsors SAVOR Flying Dog is partnering with the Brewer’s Association, the producers of the Great American Beer Festival, to bring you Savor, America’s premier food and beer event. Flying Dog will be exhibiting complete with sampling of our highly regarded Canis Major Series, recipes from BeerDinners.com and food pairings. We will also be joining other craft breweries as attendees experience a reception-style sampling of their choice of 35+ sweet and savory appetizers and 96 craft beers. For tickets visit wwwSavorCraftBeer.com.
Executive Brewer Matt Brophy Gets Caught Garde Dogging On Camera“Everybody’s doing it,” he proclaims without the slightest hint of remorse. Flying Dog’s Executive Brewer Matt Brophy (fancy talk for a guy that really knows his shit) goes on camera to talk about his brew team’s new creation Garde Dog Biere De Garde. This is the first in our series of videos that will cover all our Flying Dog beer styles with complete style history, flavor profiles, food parings and Flying Dog’s unique twists. Matt, Head Brewer Bob Malone (that’s fancy talk for the guy that does all the work) and Flying Dog President and CEO Eric Warner (that’s fancy talk for a guy that golfs a lot) will be filling your brains with useful beer knowledge as they try not to overindulge on the fruits of their labor. 

Click on the image above to view our new video.

For more on Matt, Bob and Eric’s world-class brewing careers and other things
Flying Dog related check out our blog, www.FlyingDogNews.com.Flying Dog Launches Twitter UpdatesFlying Dog has launched a couple of new Twitter pages so you can stay even more connected and have yet another excuse to play with your computer and not your wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Twitter, it’s a microblogging website that allows users to write and read posts that are shorter than 140 characters. The really nice thing is that you can write and receive messages via text message on your cell phone.

Our first Twitter page is at www.twitter.com/flyingdog - This is where you can stay connected with everything going on here at
the brewery - new styles to be released, promotions/contests, awards, Eric’s vacations, all of that.

Our second Twitter page is at www.twitter.com/craftbeer - We love reading beer blogs and newspaper stories about Craft Beer, so we’ll be posting all of the good links on our Twitter page so you don’t have spend hours Googling crap. It will all be right here.What People Are Saying About Us Mostly unsolicited, outside opinions about our beer and our company from the media and world wide web. To read what people are saying about us click on the links below. This week we have a ton of Garde Dog reviews.

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.Flying Dog Releases New Spring Seasonal Garde Dog Biere De Garde, our new Spring Seasonal has started shipping to distributors across the country this week. Hailing from the French Flanders, Biere De Garde is a classic French farmhouse ale with Belgian influences. Bier De Garde, or “beer for keeping”, is traditionally brewed in March for drinking in the spring and summer months.  I will avoid any humorous, yet harmless French stereotyping in this newsletter because it is available to read on the label.

With it’s toasted aroma and spicy, malty sweetness, Garde Dog will liberate you from the winter doldrums.





Beer MadnessThe Washington Post has come up with the brilliant idea to create a college basketball-style March Madness competition for beer. Now, if only they had Vegas-style odds to match each round it would be the perfect competition. Old Scratch beat down its first round opponent, Michelob, but we actually lost the popular vote (a la the 2000 election). Seriously? We lost the popular vote to Michelob? I need members of the People’s Republic to step up and flog the next round opponent, Brooklyn Beer. To follow all the action and show your support for Old Scratch check out this link.
Flying Dog Photo ContestWith over 130 entries from the People’s Republic of Flying Dog we had a hell of a time picking a winner. There were many worthy entries and we thank everyone… blah, blah, blah. The winner entitled “The Last Call” was submitted by Mike Reaser and Mike Frederick. They win for creativity and execution. Congrats gentlemen, your Flying Dog neon will be shipping shortly. Check out their winning photo and all the contest entries at this link.




What People Are Saying About Us Mostly unsolicited, outside opinions about our beer and our company from the media and world wide web. To read what people are saying about us click on the links below.

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. Some email services will block the newsletterformat. If you see a black screen please view the newsletter at FlyingDogBlog.com Join The American Homebrewers Association Today! Although we would much rather they purchase our beer to consume, homebrewers have always been an important part of the beer community. The American Homebrew Association is looking for members to spread the gospel of good beer and Flying Dog has partnered with the AHA in a membership drive. Check out all the details below.

For a limited time, you can sign up for membership to the American Homebrewers Association® (AHA) and receive a FREE Flying Dog Ales beanie.

American Homebrewers Association (AHA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the community of homebrewers and empowering them to make the best beer in the world. Join the more than 15,000 homebrewers and beer enthusiasts who are already members.

If you’re a not yet a homebrewer this is a great way to start. Or if you know someone who might enjoy learning more about beer and homebrewing, this makes a great gift!

Members enjoy these benefits:

Memories Of Hunter It has been three years since Hunter Thompson decided his time had come.  As has become tradition, our February 20th newsletter is sent out in memory of his life as a friend and writer. Hunter was a long time friend and co-conspirator of Flying Dog owner George Stranahan amd his influence on the creation of Flying Dog is most evident on our labels as Hunter was the connection between Flying Dog founder George and Gonzo artist, Ralph Steadman.

Today, in what might be our longest newsletter ever, we bring you insight from one of the men who knew Dr. Gonzo best - Ralph Steadman.  “This is the last thing I wrote in any detail about Hunter after our last visit to Owl Farm in 2004,” Ralph wrote in a recent email.

Thank you Ralph and we encourage everyone to exercise their “Inner Gonzo” tonight and raise their glass to the American Dream.
Ralph’s Gonzo Memories
In 2004 sometime around mid-September, I received a menacing, insulting and brutal ansaphone message from Hunter that went on for five minutes. He rambled through several demands of things he needed from me for Rolling Stone for the issue before the Bush-Kerry election -the one that I think broke his spirit- and others too. I kept it and publish ithere as a last desperate call to arms from my friend who sounded as though he was up against the wall. Specifically, he wanted me to portray an image of absolute evil. ‘Absolute’ is a odd word and cannot be quantified, but when I have finished committing these words to print, I am going to try to do just that and do it in Hunter’s honour.

‘Ah Ralph, you filthy little animal, filthy little beast, I have a job for you, a proud and noble job,  I know, don’t say it, this is just a job, another job . I am now writing on the fax ,  a rueful message, never mind,  I am now writing, sending a page. Fax on the woeful message required , I’m a little high, Ralph, writing many weird pages, on this article for Jann for this coming Friday, as my deadline, it’s scheduled for the issue of October 1 2004 to the best of my knowledge. It’s about voting and it’s about elections – it’s about vote or die -  Ralph, this is about kicking ass, Ralph, who else but you –who would I turn to when we want to kick ass – so, we will need some art on the US election, as it looks now,  the real grit question for you, is this, for some reason, Ralph. er- what is the physical nature of evil?  My real question for you that I’ve written down here. Things that I had on my mind earlier.  Yeh, then it occurred to me,  For some reason this is what I wrote on my note book.  Yeh,(a laugh)  then a political drawing might stand out – with this art business – Somewhere in this context – your drawing of me in the jeep – We won’t worry about the title or the caption yet (laugh)  in that one – I am thinking of re-writing that Time magazine masterpiece – it has become quite famous in the underworld of poof-poof journalism in politics – you know, the taco stand – yeh, all the time they’re asking about you – I can probably get you a fellowship out here – immediately, come to think of it – now I understand you are coming here- so that’s a different thing – of course you’re coming here – when?  Not soon enough to meet this deadline we have now in a week – for your take on my view on the eve of election – out view , Ralph, our view - yeh, fuck you, Ralph, oh and in the piece also which I sent you just – one lead, well I’ve sent you several leads, Ralph, call me on   US 970 xxx xxxx – I look forward to the orgy – and believe me we’re going to kick ass or get our asses kicked – before you get out of this country – if we do this art – er, we’re just going to use the Rolling Stone conduit through October – to have an effect – and it’s about the right time to do it – drop a bomb on the bastards – ah – so – do  you have it, Ralph, you must have it, call me on – I’ll sleep for a while after this message or maybe I’ll swim – or maybe I’ll go out and cruise the dark underbelly of Carbondale – who knows what I’ll do? – but you’re it. Thank you.

Tuesday September 7th at 1.05 pm

Ah Ralph, one more thing concerning the art – ah, I’m going to send you if I can find it – the absolutely classic political po