My friend and colleague, Thomas Kerns (who’s the head brewer at Maui Brewing), sent me the link to a wonderful insert all about Hawaiian beer that the local paper, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, published in the Sunday newspaper. Entitled Hawaii On Tap, the article takes an in-depth look at beer on the islands and runs to fourteen pages. It’s great, positive publicity for the craft beer industry as a whole and Hawaii in specific.

It’s said that bigger isn’t always better, but then again sometimes it is. Case in point, more beer can be a good thing. With that in mind, Heartland Brewery is introducing The Beer Goddess®, The World’s Largest Glass of Beer (We Think).”

From the press release:

Heartland Brewery announces the introduction of The Beer Goddess®, a three-liter hand-blown Pilsner glass (that’s 6.3 pints, 101.4 ounces, or 8.5 cans) custom-made for Heartland by Rastal of Germany. Heartland Brewery believes that when filled with one of its locally brewed craft beers, the glass may be “The Largest Glass of Beer Commercially Available” (that is, served in a bar or restaurant), and has applied to the Guinness World Records to have it designated as such.

The Beer Goddess is available at all five Heartland locations and is served with a choice of six Heartland beers. The Beer Goddess costs $49, and does not include the glass itself, which is not for sale at this time. There are a limited edition of only 100 Beer Goddess glasses in circulation at Heartland Brewery restaurants.

Heartland Brewery founder Jon Bloostein, notes, “We appreciate that The Beer Goddess may not be for everyone, but we all know beer drinkers for whom it is perfect. That said, we are limiting orders to one per person and encouraging customers to share. While we think we serve the world’s largest beer (mind you, in a glass, not a pitcher), we invite the public to e-mail us with any examples from bars or restaurants around the world that they believe are larger.”

Heartland founder Jon Bloostein and Brewmaster Kelly Taylor show off the Beer Goddess glass.

 
In case you were curious, that ® refers to Beer Goddess being a registered trademark of Ale Street News.
 

I got a great e-mail from Ray Merkler, who has a new homebrewing blog — the Bathtub Brewery — along with his significant other, Melissa Ward. Ray took the original Session logo file I made way back when, re-rendered it in Adobe Illustrator, and cleaned it up quite a bit, adding a third type of logo with the text “The Session” inside the red circle. He did a great job and they look much better than mine, which admittedly I did on the fly and quickly, so I’ve replaced mine with his on the Session Logo page. I’d encourage you to use his, too. Way to go, Ray. Great job, and I appreciate the effort.

Today is the beginning of Oregon Craft Beer Month, a series of events celebrating beer in Oregon, with over one hundred events throughout the month. There’s also a new website that includes a blog, events and twitter updates. Unfortunately, the events calendar doesn’t seem to be working, so I put up my own calendar from the press release.