Drink Bob Moog Beer!

Moog Filtered Ale guaranteed to be a zillion times better than that damned Sammy Hagar tequila... New brew coincides with Moog Foundation benefit next week.

By Fred Mills

One of the earliest features published here at Blurt Online, in June of 2008, was a story on the Bob Moog Foundation (read "Moog In Vogue" here), outlining the work the late synthesizer pioneer's daughter, Michelle Moog-Koussa, and others to preserve Robert Moog's legacy and "inspire electronic music and creative technology for years to come."

Since then the Foundation has been quite active in and around its home base of Asheville, NC - read more of our coverage here - with outreach programs for schoolchildren in particular being among the nonprofit organization's key mandates.

Next week, May 27, there's to be a fundraiser for the Foundation, "Moogus Operandi," at Asheville's Orange Peel club, featuring performances by synth whiz Erik Norlander and other musicians - full details can be read here, and for those of you who might be interested in donating to the Foundation and the Moog Museum, visit the official Foundation website. (It's a pretty cool site, by the way - check out that Beastie Boys photo!)

Meanwhile, in conjunction with the benefit bash, local brewers the Asheville Brewing Company are unveiling an official Robert Moog beer. They're dubbing it the Moog Filtered Ale, and it's described by Asheville weekly The Mountain Xpress as a "smooth, piney, easy-to-drink American Pale." Proceeds from the sale of the  brewski will go, naturally, to the Foundation. It will be distributed nationally and internationally distributed and available in 22-oz bottles. Check out some of the details right here.

You can never have too many American Pales. Pour it alongside some chips and jalapenos, with maybe a side of synth.