My trials, tribulations and other things …

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DBI Beer Company

After a few naming rounds and some trademark agony we decided to form as a holding company for whatever brand name we eventually would use.  DBI Beer Company, LLC formed to take on a loan, start purchasing equipment, file tax returns, etc. We will file a d/b/a under our eventual brand name, that the general public will be introduced to.  In the meantime we are moving forward, the loan has been approved and finalized, equipment should be purchased soon and we are basically on track to debut at the Magic City Brew Fest. We are planning on releasing one main beer and a few one offs at the festival, fingers crossed, everyone will love us and we will be off to a running start. To ensure that we don’t stumble at the gate we will be holding a couple of private tastings pre launch to get the kinks out and to help whet people’s thirst for our beer. So if you are interested in getting in at the ground level of Birmingham’s next big beer company, just let me know.

 

It’s all happening

Four Horsemen Brewery is in the process of being reborn as The DNA Beer Company.  I hesitate to even publish this as it all seems so fragile right now but the paper work should be finished by the end of next week. We decided to become contract brewers and as luck would have it we hopefully have found a brewery to work with here in the great state of Alabama. I hope to publish more as the deals get signed and everything is finalized, but look for our beer on shelves sometime this summer! I still can’t believe this is for real.

 

Data recovery

I’m trying to consolidate all of my old photography work and I’ve run into an expensive issue. All of my europe photos are saved on a single Hitachi 4GB MicroDrive. This as some of you know is basically a mini HD mounted in a CF case. in other words extremely easy to break and somewhat unreiable. So now in hte hopes of getting my photos back I’m going to spend upwards of a grand to have the platters pulled and the data read off the disk. I hope this is worth it. $1000.00 bucks and a one month turn around time, you’d think those photos were made of gold.

 

 

At the apple store

I’m at the apple store trying to merge my old MobileMe account and my new iCloud account turns out I get a 20 gig bonus for being an old MobileMe customer! I’ve gotten my old photos off of my iPhone so that’s good news. But now it is taking forever to get my photo stream to update with all my old photos. Good thing I didn’t have anything else to do today.

iOS frustrations

How do you get your old photos on your iPhone to appear in the iCloud photo stream? This one question has been bugging me since I upgraded to iOS 5 on the 12th. It appears that Apple has shut off all the old ways of getting photos off of your iphone ie using import in preview, iphoto, aperture or image capture. I don’t mind using the cloud but my iphone should stil be able to get old photos back into my Mac without all this hassle. I am going to the Apple store tomorrow to try to get to the bottom of this, until then I suppose I will remain frustrated.

Great Quote

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”

- Sylvia Plath

final stages of my MBA

I’m taking my capstone class for my MBA this semester. That means I will graduate in May as long as I pass everything this semester which is by no means a guarantee. I’m taking Marketing policy,  the Capstone class and the the second finance class. No light weights here. these are all heavy hitting research and study time intensive classes. Wish me luck this fall as I march towards Christmas and my final semester at UAB.

Taking a break from brewing

The Irish Stout and the 90 minute clone are both kegged and carbonated and ready to enjoy. Since the semester has started back up I’m taking a little break from brewing. Not to mention my wife and I have started a new diet that is not exactly beer friendly.

Hazelnut Porter

We took our 5 gal batch of the Hazelnut Porter down for a beach trip and the guys and myself finished it all in the first two days. That’s the fastest I’ve ever seen a keg of porter go! Not too bad for a first try.