Flying Dog Small Bottle Mixed Pack

Interesting news about Maryland's own Flying Dog I found at the DRAFT Magazine blog. Flying Dog will soon begin selling eight packs of mixed bottles of their "Canis Major" offerings -- mostly higher ABV brews.

The catch?

They'll be in seven-ounce bottles.

what people might not know is that the brewery inherited a little gem of a bottling line designed to package seven-ounce bottles in the move. Not wanting to discard this equipment and certain they could find a use for it, the team worked on a project that would utilize the bottling line. The plan? Make an eight-pack of seven-ounce bottles that will hold two of each of the brewery’s Canis Major series beers: Double Dog Double Pale Ale, Gonzo Imperial Porter, Kerberos Tripel and Horn Dog Barley Wine. One year later the project is complete and Flying Dog is about to unveil a new mix-pack of their high-octane brews.

Sounds fun. Look for those to be available before the Holiday season after a cold open Sept. 15 debut at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver.

Max's Best-Selling Beers

Interesting find, via email from my friend Steve who writes "Summer of Beer".

According to DRAFT Magazine, the following are the five top-selling beers at Max's Taphouse in Fells Point:

1)Brewer's Art Resurrection
2)Franziskaner Hefe-Weizen
3)Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA
4)Heavy Seas Loose Cannon
5)Stella Artois

Things were going smoothly until that last one. Oh well, four out of five ain't bad.