Definitely a missed opportunity at GSA in Portland
Just found this by accident on the Internets: a club called holocene, which would probably have been an appropriate place for the Portland GSA geobloggers meetup last month. Which makes me wonder what other geo-themed booze is there out there? Syncline makes a wine called Subduction Red. Wineries EOS and PEPI share names with geophysics publications. Dogfish Head makes Pangaea, a beer that they claim contains “ingredients from each and every continent” (how do they get the water from Antarctica, I wonder?). Does anyone out there know of others?
Andrew Alden has a gallery of geo-themed wines: http://geology.about.com/od/winegeology/ig/geowines/
Big Rock Brewery (bigrockbeer.com), in Calgary, Alberta, is named for a giant glacial erratic. Contrary to the blurb on their site, however, the erratic is not “granite”, but Lower Cambrian quartzite. Their Traditional Ale is my number one.
And Big Rock Brewery made a limited edition “Shale Ale” in 2009 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Charles Walcott’s discovery of the Burgess Shale. The empty bottle resides on my desk. The contents were delicious!