Drunk on Geology - The Divining Rod Chardonnay

The next up in our Drunk on Geology series is Marc Mondavi's The Divining Rod Chardonnay by The Divining Rod wines.

A divining rod is geological you say?!?! Now hear me out.

A "divining rod" is a "magical" stick, often in the shape of an "L", that helps the user find various things under the ground's surface including (most commonly) water, but also oil, gold, gems, etc. It is considered a "pseudoscience", since it doesn't involve an evidence based system of determination and instead uses the user's "feelings" to determine where to find what they are looking for. 

Even though the divining rod is basically guesswork at it's most glorified, it could be considered the first step along a long road for humanity to determine how to accurately and repeatedly find the location of valuable underground commodities, such as water and petroleum. It is a first step to the scientific method for exploration (try, repeat, doesn't work, move on to a new method). 

Drunk on Geology - Field Assistant Ale

Along with a previous Drunk on Geology post (Lava Cap), another special bottle was produced by the Geological Society of America (GSA) for their 125th anniversary meeting back in 2013. This one is the Field Assistant Ale by the Left Hand Brewing Company. Not fitting into any specific category, this is my first "Drunk on Geology" generic category because a field assistant can be found in any geological discipline so I didn't want to limit it to just one.

The beer is normally the Left Hand Brewing Company's Sawtooth Ale, with a special bottle designed by design agency Moxie Sozo and artist Andrea Oropeza. You can find Andrea's work on her website: https://www.acoropeza.com/. 

Drunk on Geology - the Logo

  I needed just a regular Drunk on Geology category logo for some beers and wines that cross categories so I came up with a new logo for the overall Drunk on Geology series:

Drunk on Geology

Trying to keep this one fairly simple with a mug of beer on the rocks and a rock hammer umbrella. Also I liked the idea of the drips of beer turning into diamonds as they fall.