Submitted by drinker Jeremy Olson from Saskatchewan, Canada.

Greetings!

Over the Easter Holiday, I traveled from my home here in Atlanta, GA, to my Mother’s house up in Tennessee. As usual, my weekend consisted of many great brews, some from Bell’s, SweetWater, New Belgium, Terrapin, and, of course, Brooklyn. My fiancé and I have loved Local 1 since the first time we tried it a couple of years back. She loves Belgian Wits, Saisons, etc and I’m more of the Hop-Head. One beer I grab often is Local 1 so we can share it. It’s something we both like and it goes really well with some of the meals we make together, especially Chicken Alfredo.

Well, apparently Local 1 isn’t just for humans…

My Mom’s English Bulldog, Bugsy, has been a beer lover since day one. He’s about 5 years old now, weighs about 60 lbs, and is one of the most perfect Bulldog’s ever made! Starting mostly as a BMC drinker, I’ve tried to convert him to a true beer connoisseur over the years. He would swig swill at family gatherings, try to turn over friends’ drinks to steal a drink or two, or simply beg if you’re drinking something that even remotely resembled a beer, but now he apparently is getting it. My fiancé and I were having some glasses of L1 when I hear:

My Mom: “What does he have?”

My Aunt: “Who??”

My Mom: “Bugsy, he has something in his mouth. What is it?”

My Aunt: “Well, it looks like a cork or something”

Me and my Fiance: “Oh $&%t!”

To my surprise, the aroma of Local 1 was just too much for him. I’m not sure where I sat the cork down, but apparently it was in paw’s reach for him. He then hid under the swing outside so we couldn’t reach him and enjoyed all the Local 1 he could contrive from the cork! I saw the Brooklyn Brewery’s logo hanging out of his mouth and thought “What a great picture!”. So, I had to send it on to you guys. Obviously, he doesn’t drink much beer as we know it’s bad for him. We actually stopped giving him anything at all as of a couple years ago, but apparently he couldn’t resist the temptation of your wonderful Local 1. We had to offer him a treat to give it up but he still licked those lips for 5 minutes after we took it away from him!

I hope you like the picture as much as I do!

Cheers,

Marc Powell

BJCP Certified Judge F0412

Our neighbors over at Remains Lighting sent us this cute photo of Brooklyn Brown Ale chilling in some snow on a car in front of their factory today.  Let’s hope it’s their car.

If you’re curious, Remains Lighting is a super picky local lighting manufacturing company that employs lots of tree-hugging tactics to ensure their product makes as light of a footprint as possible on the environment. How’s that for late Friday afternoon pun?

Thanks for the photos, guys!

Dear Brooklyn Brewery,

As you know, we were hit with a big snow storm yesterday which closed many schools and businesses all day.  Some friends and I took advantage of the snow day by enjoying some Brooklyn Lager and playing in the snow.  We made a pretty nice snowman, and as a tribute to your fine product, put a nice bottle of beer in the thirsty snowman’s hand.  Thought you might like to see it.

Cheers,
Shane