The Mechanics of Religion and Beer
As I always do whenever I have a problem, such as this business in Maine (perhaps you’ve heard about it?), I called the guy who fixes my car, Ken.Ken lives in Monson, a couple of towns over, and he’s a wiz with internal combustion engines,…
More on Censorship
We’ve received a ton of email about this issue in the past couple days, with those in support of the First Amendment and the US Constitution outweighing the negative ones by about ten to one. But there’s a lot more to this than just our…
Beer Label Censorship
Shelton Brothers Challenge Maine Censorship of Artistic Beer Labels PORTLAND—Today, the Maine Civil Liberties Union Foundation filed a case against government censorship. The MCLU represents Daniel Shelton, a specialty beer distributor who was refused permission to sell three beers because the State deemed their labels…
Shelton Brothers Does Cider
Well, sure, we’ve been asked to bring in ciders before, but we didn’t much like the ones we tried and figured we’d stick to beer. Three or four years ago, however, we started to hear a bit of a buzz about traditional English farmhouse cider,…
“He Considers Beer a Matter of Great Import”
(Reprinted from the New York Daily News article by Ron Givens, April 04, 2006) For Dan Shelton, the world can be neatly divided into “good beer” and “industrial beer.”The good stuff is complex, while the industrial stuff is like water. The good stuff is made…
