Devil’s Canyon has upgraded it’s commenting system today!

We installed a back-end commenting system by IntenseDebate. New Features Include:

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*      Importing/Exporting
*      Commenter Profiles
*      Reputation Points & Comment Voting
*      Moderation/Blacklisting
*      Widgets
*      RSS Readers & Tracking
*      Twitter
*      FriendFeed
*      OpenID
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*      HTML Formatting

Details on the features are located here. Feel free to leave a comment to this posting in order to try it out!

You may have been wondering about all of the activity on the other side of the wall from Devil’s Canyon. If you didn’t know already, there has been a super secret Tea company brewing their magic on our system. If you did know this – we want to know how since it was super secret.

Golden Star Tea Co. has been diligently toiling over their brand new product, White Jasmine Sparkling Tea. It is a departure from what you might expect from a non-alcoholic tea beverage, and they introduced it to the Devil’s Canyon community at the October Beer Friday.

In the future, expect to find Golden Star tea on the shelves of Whole Foods and other purveyors of fine brands.

Their new sparkling tea won top honors at this year’s World Tea Expo, and has received rave reviews from Beverage World, Imbibe, and Patterson’s Tasting Panel.

More information is available at www.GoldenStarTea.com

Did you know you can buy kegs of our beer directly from the brewery?

Step 1) Buy a kegerator from Craig’s List or make one with a kit from MoreBeer in Los Altos.

Step 2) Call the brewery

We will need your full name & phone number, pick-up time (Fridays anytime between 1pm- 5:30pm. Other days of the week we will schedule a time.)

All orders should be placed at least 24hr in advance so we can get your stuff together. Pick up is at the front door facing Harbor Blvd.

No Kegerator?

We have a limited number of jockey boxes and hand pumps!  Check our current price list for . . .um. . .. well. . .. current prices!

The info has gone out to Mailing List faithfuls - Expect to see an update here Friday mid-morning.

UPDATE:  Here is a link to a copy online.

And here is an important nugget:

There will be a sign on the brewery gate December 26^th reading “For 6 months we have been telling people that there will be no Beer Friday in December. Due to popular demand we did hold a special Beer Friday Holiday Hootenanny Year End Spectacular last Friday. Please subscribe to our mailing list or visit our website. We missed you last week! See You Next Month.”

Why? Because we will be celebrating Boxing Day with our Canadian brethren and sistren, the beginning of Kwanzaa with our African-American friends and if you have a problem with Beer Friday being changed, might we remind you that that December 26^th is also National Whiner’s Day!

Update your calendars and we’ll see you DECEMBER 19^th for the Beer Friday Holiday Hootenanny Year End Spectacular!

Why? Because there is no December 26^th Beer Friday – The Beer Friday Holiday Hootenanny Year End Spectacular will be Friday, December 19^th

As a small, local brewery competing against corporate giants - one differentiating thing we can offer our customers is personalized service. We don’t have a million dollar budget and we can’t give away free schwag - but we can deliver outstanding customer service.

In our monthly mailing list we usually ask people to take a moment to write a quick review for us at Yelp.com. We wanted to take a moment to say Thank You to those of you who have left comments, praise and constructive criticisms.

Looking at our latest statistics is appears as though we have an increasingly content customer base:

Our production numbers are higher than ever and growing but we have not nor we will ever lose sight of what makes us successful - our customers.

We always welcome your feedback and ideas. And, especially in this current economic mess, it can never be said too often: “Thank You For Supporting Local Businesses and YOUR Local Brewery! “

Ran across a very cool beer article with some interesting graphics.

Beer. A sweet nectar from the gods themselves. A 8,000 year old process of refinement culminated into 12 oz of sublime libation. More than milk, coffee, or even bottle water, beer is the drink of choice for thirsty Americans of age.

Yes, we Americans grease the wheels of human emotion with this social lubricant like no other. Some 200 million barrels a year go down our collective hatches. But instead of a string of numbers, lets visualize our way to grasping the United States’ yearly beer consumption.

Continue checking out the graphics and reading up on some American Beer Statistics over at SloshSpot. The site itself a a little on the PG-13 side but this article is excelllent.

Well that got my heart going . . . I just updated the back-end database of our website to SQL v5.0 from 4.0 to see if I can get the photo gallery running.

Of course I lost the entire website for about 5 minutes.

Maybe I should do these things after getting home around 3am from the brewery?

Awesome party last night, It was nice to be able to talk to so many people and listen to superb local artists jamming for the extended Devil’s Canyon family. We are looking forward to the next Bluegrass night in December.

OK, lets see if I can get a photo gallery working.

Welcome Aboard!
Be sure to stop by our newest accounts and thank them for supporting Local Beer!

Route 92 – San Mateo
Marvin Gardens - Belmont
Turtle Bay – Foster City

A map with all of our customer locations is available here

And Remember – a $15 receipt from any of the places our beer is served gets you a free beer on Beer Friday! Limit 2 for Beer Club Members, 1 for non-Beer Club Members, See Jamie for receipt redemption.

The mailer is getting ready to go out . . . are you on the mailing list?

and . . .

The mailer has been sent! Here is a link to a copy online.

See you at Beer Friday and the Oct 3rd BrewGlass Jam!

In honor of the fabulous Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Devil’s Canyon Brewery will be hosting its own warm-up party at the brewery. This means we will be open October 3rd in addition to Beer Friday!

We will be featuring local Bay Area bands playing bluegrass, jamgrass, and other sorts of grass for your boogieing pleasure. Starting at 11pm it’s a free-for-all Open Jam Pickin’ Party!

CROWD PARTICIPATION IS HIGHLY ENCOURAGED!  Bring your instrument, whatever it may be!

5:00  Openly Grey
6:00   Moonshine String Posse
7:00  Four Finger Stringband
8:00  Matt Stivers & Friends
8:30  The Day Late Fools
(Ted Kratter & Friends)
9:30  Stoney Mountain Ramblers
11:00 Open Jam

Food Will Be Available For Sale As Will Wine, Soda and Award-Winning, Hand-Crafted Beer. THERE IS NO COVER CHARGE!

Thank You For Supporting Local Music and Your Local Brewery.

Want To Help Out?

Here is a flyer you can download (1st-strictly-brewglass-poster) and distribute to your friends via email or you can print out several copies and hang them up in your office, local coffee shop, luthier, dry cleaner, pre-school, dentist’s office, music store, church, nunnery, automotive dealership, fast-food “restaurant,” computer store, kilt-maker tailor place, police office, library, etc.

See you at Bluegrass Night!