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If you keep up with us on both Twitter and Facebook, well, this Thirsty Thursday update may seem a little boring to you. We’re sorry. Here, watch a puppy play in snow in slow motion.

(You might want to watch that anyway. It’s really cute.)

Let’s start with the time sensitive item: do you want to go to Beerology at the Science Museum on April 9? Then you should stop reading this post and buy your ticket right the hell now. Okay. Welcome back. Glad you got in before they sold out.

This isn’t about CBW directly, but craftbeer.com’s article Nano Breweries—Talk of the Craft Beer Nation. It’s mostly directed at people who haven’t heard of the nano movement, and if you’re here then you have, but it’s certainly worth a read.

Mmm. Beer. Good. Yes.

All that fancy readin’ too much for you? Well then Fox News has a video for you to feast your eyes on: representatives from Schlafly, Saranac and Lazy Magnolia were on to talk about the ‘beer stimulus’ program, a bill not passed in the last Congress that they hope to get introduced in the current one to lower the excise tax on small brewers.

Just because we’re interested in tickling all of your senses, one by one, we’ll give you some audio too: we haven’t been linking to each week’s episode of Craft Beer Talk, but they certainly have been working on in our absence: the latest show features a vertical tasting of Bigfoots.

And then, finally, it’s Words With Friends time. I believe the only update this week was Elizabeth’s victory over Josh. She’s 3-0, people. Assuming Michelle and Eric ever finish their second round game*, maybe someone will be able to step up and sotp her (*’blah blah blah moving 800 miles blah’: EXCUSES EXCUSES)

But wait! Are you an Android user? Well, a tad late for the tourney, but you’ll be set for next time, because Words With Friends is now available on the too-cool-for-iOS marketplace.

My apologies for not getting some of these links up earlier. I had intended on last week’s Thirsty Thursday post to be a double header, and then it was to be a Link Dump Friday, and then, well. Here we are.

Before we get to the links and Words With Friends update, I need to get this out of my system. It’s too cool to bury at the end. Our kettles and conicals showed up today, fresh from Stout Tanks & Kettles, and gods damn if they aren’t awesome:

So very pretty

Next Friday our burner setup arrives from Psychobrew, and then we’ll have a party on our hands. Or not, actually: we’ll have already submitted our TTB application, and once you hand that in there’s no brewing until the licensing process is complete. It will be a bitter sort of love, as we enter the brewery and see our preciouses sitting there, unable to be used. All in good time, though. All in good time.

So, then: the links!

Firstly, a hearty congrats to Todd at Cosmic Frog for getting his TTB application in. He’ll be a few weeks ahead of us (curses!), but that’s not much in the grand scheme of things. And also? Buffalo beer is Buffalo beer. We’ll be drinking more than our fair share of his beers, we can tell you. He’s already reciprocated, featuring Ethan’s Sorachi Rye Saison in his ‘Daily Beer’ review section.

(It should be noted that while we plan to make a saison once we’re up and running, it may or may not have sorachi ace hops and/or rye. These are still test batches, folks)

We’ve gotten some more press as well, being featured in Buffalo Beer and Food’s article A Great Year For Nano/Microbreweries in Western New York. Thanks to Scott for the plug, and also for pointing out that we should update some of the information on the site (which we have since done).

I have a Google Alert set up for ‘Community Beer Works.’ That means that if one of you so much as breathes our name, I’ll hear it. Like any number of wizards in fantasy novels, I will stop what I’m doing and cock my head to the side, like a dog who hears a rabbit shuffling about outside (yes, that was two similes in one sentence). I keep a listing of CBW sightings, by the way, if you’re interested.

This alert is how I found out about the Buffalo Beer and Food article above, even. Sometimes they’re false alarms, like when a site that has us in their blogroll (thanks, by the way!) updates and our name is picked up for some reason, or when (for reasons I cannot comprehend) Korean Facebook (I think) has a link there.

And then sometimes we’re mentioned on a long page of texts and links, directly above a crucifix.

What is this I don't even

I mean, we even wrote a Christmas poem, but that’s not what they picked up on. Nor did they link to us. Their motives are a delicious mystery.

CBW Words With Friends Update

Our first week is over! Three games have finished, with others doubtlessly almost there. (If your game hasn’t been started, by the way, please let me know so I can give them a kick in the pants. Also, JoshTheBrute, your email bounced so please send me one to dan at this domain).

Updates!

(direct link) As you can see, neut2004 has triumphed over pbarczys, and they’re awaiting the finish of Blankboy vs SudsyMaggie. Meanwhile, the Battle of the Dans has finished, as has econley/aplacito, and that means something very bad: I’m now playing my wife.

Worse, I’m losing.

I made a Twitter list for the people involved, though not everyone is on Twitter (that I know of). I don’t really know why I did, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

See everyone next week! And remember: if your #cbwwwf game finishes, send me an email.

As we look now towards Christmas, there are as yet two things that must happen before we can file with the TTB (the next step in our quest for global beery domination):

1. Close on 15 Lafayette*, aka CBW HQ
2. Amend our Operating Agreement to include all members of Team CBW

Both of these are proceeding well and are nearly complete. I realized that once the building is ours, all ours, our meetings can be held there. We can have things like awesome get togethers there if we so choose, and we will so choose, though I’m certain I don’t know what you mean, I didn’t announce anything just there, you’ll have to come back later.

So then, in lieu of more news that doesn’t exist, let’s have some links, eh?

They sure were locavores back then!

No doubt you’ve heard of Craft Beer Talk, the new weekly beer talk show on WECK 1230 AM, Tuesdays at 8. It’s two episodes in and Ethan has been on both, so of course we think you should listen. Episode one is split up into chunks and Ethan can be found on parts 4 & 5, the 5th being exclusively about CBW and its progress. This week he was on the full hour, discussing things like Genessee, Dundee, Anchor and Bruce Springsteen.

Then there’s Beerology, the Buffalo Science Museum’s fundraiser/beer event. Tickets are on sale now for the April 9 event and they sell out every year, so get yours now. It’s an awesome time and features such exciting events as a brewing demonstration from the Niagara Association of Homebrewers! Science is real, after all.

Speaking of science, some of the science of beer was discussed on last week’s Science Friday on NPR (warning: the link goes straight to an mp3, the best permalink we could find). Charlie Bamforth, University of California, Davis professor of brewing science and author of Beer Is Proof God Loves Us is on the program.

And, finally for this week, seminal nanobrewery Hess Brewing has updated their list of nanobreweries in the US. We were put on in the last update, though there still isn’t much information on us. That will change — we’ve leaned over and said hello — but is irrelevant to the news at hand, which is that with the new breweries added there are now 51 nanobreweries actively in operation, with 32 more (yours truly) in planning.

Next week: Rudy unveils the World Juniors of Beer.

* From time to time you may have seen us refer to the building as 13 Lafayette, or 13/15 Lafayette. It’s both, technically, and we’ve decided to use 15 officially. So mote it be.

Ethan was on The Late Nick Mendola last night, and if you have a few minutes to spare you should listen to the third clip from the top. Our variance, CBW’s mission, why a nanobrewery and an interesting bit at the end about a future venture await.

Stan Hieronymus, who you really should be reading, wonders what a nanobrewery really means: Portland is hosting a nanobrewery festival, and some of the participants have 7-10 barrel systems.

The craziest stuff comes up on Google Image Search. This was for 'nanobrewery' (also, anybody want a peanut?)

‘Nanobrewery’ can be seen as somewhat trendy and gimmicky (especially when you do the math vs the max amount of a microbrewery). Despite that, we at CBW do consider ourselves nano, in that we’re much, much smaller than your average brewery. Our system is going to be one barrel. One. That’s only about six times as much as I make per batch on the homebrew scale. (some people wonder how you make a living off of that small a production, and the answer is that we won’t; no one is quitting their day job until there’s been some expansion) I don’t think it’s fair or accurate to group us in with Stone, Dogfish Head, et al as just ‘craft’ beer. But hey, we’re interested in your opinions.

Then of course when it rains it pours, as the brothers Woodcock have announced plans to build a $1.3 million brewery in Wilson. That’s about all there is to know now, but we look forward to more news as it develops.

Anything we missed? Drinking anything exciting this weekend? I’ve been enjoying the saison I recently kegged, being on a serious Belgian kick (and carefully watching The Blue Monk’s Facebook page…)