Two great beers and a not so great podcast recording

Last week we recorded a podcast episode for one of our own productions called TorsdagsSurr. The goal is to record a relaxed an informal chat about the future of entertainment online. Usualy we just do audio but this time we decided to do both audio and video live, the video part was supposed to be two small videos of me and Linda and also we would show one of our desktops.

The initial setup was like this:

- Garageband recording audio for the MP3-version, to be mixed afterwards

- Screenflow recording my desktop

- A window of iChat with iTheater showing our faces and a KeyNote with images and video

- CamTwist to stream my desktop

- Ustream as streaming service

- Using “Share this screen” in OS X so that we both would see the same thing on our screens

We had to remove some of these features the hours before the recording because it became to complex. But even though we removed some steps we lost our connection and presence in the technical jungle that we had built.

The episode was not a success but at least we learned a good lesson – focus on the content! Next time we will keep it more low key and focus on the content and the audio part.

Sometimes things dont work out the way you want to. But still, you always learn something from it. Just wanted to share that.

But I had two great beers from two great craft breweries this weekend. That made me feel better..

If you are into beer here they are, a very nice barley wine from Anchor Brewing Co. and a lovely IPA from Gread Divide.

That’s it for now.

//Tomas

Beer Tasting: Lovelly stout from Catalonia

This weekend I decided to try a Catalan stout called Guineu Montserrat, which I bought about a week ago at my favourite shop in Barcelona – La Cerveteca. The text on the bottle is in Spanish (or maybe Catalan, I don’t remember right now) but my video podcast collegue Johan from our video show FemKommaNoll.TV sent me a link to a blog post about this beer. But it still felt like a wildcard…

So how was this beer? In the scent I noticed citrus fruit but also a hint of smoke. The head was pretty powerful initally and the colour was beige. The fruit comes through in the flavour as well but here I get smoke and a really nice bitterness from the hops. The hop flavour reminds me a bit about Dark Hops (which we tried in the latest episode of FemKommaNoll.TV) but more mellow.

It has a lot of flavours but it’s still a well balanced beer. I will definitely buyt this one again, I love it! And I’m looking forward to trying to all of the other beers from Guineu.

I’m beginning to understand that Catalonia is the Mecca of craft beer in Spain. It just takes some efford to get your hands on the actual beer. Good thing I’m stubborn as hell…

//Tomas

New episode of FemKommaNoll.TV!

Today I published a new episode of my show about craft beer in Swedish – FemKommaNoll.TV. If you understand Swedish and beer is your thing, don’t hesitate just push play!

FemKommaNoll.TV – S02E01, Mörk humle och ljusare APA from Urban Lifestyle on Vimeo.

//Tomas

Last weeks episode of FemKommaNoll.TV

I just remembered that I never posted lasts weeks episode of my Internet show about craft beer in Swedish. So here it is, if you are into beer and you understand Swedish then this is for you.

FemKommaNoll.TV – S02E02, Skumma smaker i Sommarsverige from Urban Lifestyle on Vimeo.

//Tomas