New Cans
Working at Ball Corp. piloting the new Infinite Monkey cans – Back Alley White & Red.
MONKEYSHINE Wine on Tap
New branding project for a Wine on Tap collab between Breckenridge Brewery and IMT.
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The MonkeyShine name comes from the root- Moonshine
Moonshine- The word is believed to derive from early English smugglers who clandestinely (i.e., by the light of the moon) produced and distributed illegal distilled rum in the 1500s. The word was picked up in during the 1920’s Prohibition era when the 18th amendment created an enormous illegal business around Moonshine. Monkeyshine references this counterculture and frames IMT’s keg program in this great underground tradition.
Moonshine- as in the light of the moon. The deep red of the planters moon & the pale yellow of the harvest moon are expressions of the natural cycles of the seasons that are so key to the cultivation of great fruit and great wine.
The letter Q
The letter Qof – The Ape
“What is the monkey to man? Derision or painful shame.
This is what man should be to superman– derision or painful shame.”
-Nietzsche
Wine Cans
The Infinite Monkey Theorem’s Carbonated Black Muscat Wine Can is available for sale in Colorado only for $7.00. IMT produced 10,000 cans of this varietal with 2 new releases coming out in the next few months. Single serving in a 250 ml vino-sealed aluminum can. Carbonated Black Muscat is on the sweet side but still crisp, w/ tiny bubbles. Refreshing ice cold. Color is pink. The design is 4 color: gold, silver, brown & black- utilizing a combination of opaque and transparent inks. A deep yellow produces the gold color and the silver is a knock-out to the aluminum can. This is an emerging category with very few wineries producing cans. The Black Muscat Can was launched at the Aspen Food & Wine Festival in June and received an amazing response. Click link to see a picture of wine industry innovator Charles Bieler shotgunning a can http://www.facebook.com/photo
Wine in a can
Proofing the Carbonated Black Muscat Wine Can at Ball Corp in Broomfield, Colorado.
The Infinite Monkey Theorem Carbonated Wine in Can out this summer.
SLB
Sanford Biggers is an interdisciplinary artist who works in film/video, installation, sculpture, music, and performance. Biggers’s art frequently references African American ethnography, hip hop music, Buddhism, African spirituality, Indo-European Vodoun, Jazz, Afrofuturism, urban culture and icons from Americana. www.sanfordbiggers.com
IMT Petite Verdot
Winemaker’s Tasting Note: Tight. Savory herb, juniper, ripe plum. blackberry, earth and mineral flavors define this full bodied ultra concentrated young wine. Tannins coarse and chalky.
The Infinite Monkey Theorem 6pack
Mixed varietal 6 pack from The Infinite Monkey Theorem. Custom designed wine briefcase – holds six bottles – printed in gold and black.
The Blind Watchmaker
William Paley in his book Natural Theology argued more than fifty years before Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, that the complexity of living organisms was evidence of the existence of a divine creator. He drew a parallel with the way in which the existence of a watch compels belief in an intelligent watchmaker. Richard Dawkins in his 1986 book argues that natural selection can explain the complex adaptations of organisms and poses an arguement against the intelligent designer – “a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, … must already have been vastly complex in the first place …” Deftly twisting the intelligent design argument back on itself ”organized complexity without explanation.”