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Samuel Adams Imperial Series Double Bock

This brew sings with blissful and brewphoric flavor harmony. Sip and prepare to have your mouth packed to the creamy rafters with splashes of chocolate, vanilla, mocha, cherry, macadamia nut, maple and a thousand decadent essential herbal oils. This … [...]

Isaac The Great: APA

Last Monday, a good friend has come back to brew more hoppy beer. This time, as part of a birthday gift, it’s a batch he brewed to take home and enjoy for himself and his group of friends. He likes hoppy beers, and this one is not only a big batch of I… [...]

a firkin for Friday 13th launch for Arcadia Ales at Sugar Maple

Join Jim Javenkoski, fan of all things beery, at the launch of Arcadia Ales at Sugar Maple, 411 Lincoln in Bayview, Milwaukee, WI. The tastings start this afternoon around 5 pm, with firkins tapped of Angler’s Ale and Hopmouth Double IPA – here are tasting notes courtesy of “Dr. Beer” – Angler’s Ale (5.4% ABV, [...] [...]

Pi Bar

Pi Bar– beer bar Mission District 1432 Valencia St @ 25th St (Google Map) Official Site | Yelp | BeerAdvocate Local microbrew: $5 Open every day 3pm-midnight MUNI: 12, 14, 26, 27, 48, 49, 67 BART: 24th St/Mission π, as I … Continue reading [...]

San Diego Beer Week in full effect…

Visit here to find out the happening on the second half of the week!SD Beer Week [...]

Hair of the Dog Adam Hearty Old World Ale Batch #73

This is a truly spectacular and muscular beer, warming like a duly spicy dark spirit and as decadently sweet and smooth as liquid vanilla ice cream. You can savor this now or bury to age like a fine wine – folks are still aging the first batch of ‘Ada… [...]

Pausa Cafè Taquamari

Spiced, sour and clean, this left of leftfield Italian brew is packed with a kitchen of off kilter ingredients. The unusual palate of flavors build to create a symphonic and classy drinking experience that is anything but the awkwardness you might expe… [...]

Warning: Pike Entire Wood Aged Stout

I was excited when I saw a lone bottle of this brew I had been dying to try on the shelves at Spec’s Arborwalk today. Naturally, I picked up the bottle and rushed home to put it in the fridge.Upon opening the brew I did the requisite bottle smell to g… [...]

Brewing with Potatoes

Stan made an interesting post today about an old book that he came across on google books.  In it the author makes the case and gives direction for using potatoes in brewing beer.  Anyone ever done it?  I think I may see a small batch of potato port… [...]

Odds and Ends

Boy, do I need to brew some beer!!!! My last batch was back in September. I brewed my Winter Spiced ale for this year. I’m changing it up. For starters, I brew it will all grain. Second, I’m not going to dry spice it this year with cinnamon sticks… [...]

The Sparkler: One paddy’s take on this divisive device.

The sparkler debate is something I have observed with mild puzzlement for years. British real ale drinkers seem to feel very strongly about it, but whether they are in favour of it or against it seems largely to depend on their point of origin. The nor… [...]

Captain Lawrence Captain’s Reserve Imperial IPA

A hefty brew by most standards, packing some seriously steroid induced hopage. On the palate this brew is bitter… and then bitter some more with a peppery, razor sharp bite and a mischievously sweet and enticing nose. Needless to say, this is not a b… [...]

21st Amendment Brew Free Or Die IPA

A truly, truly beautiful IPA, fresh and hoppy with an Olympian perfect balance of magnetic pine essence, citrus spray and light woodsy aftertastes. Simply put, this is canned American IPA perfection. This beer has the power to make an IPA lover of the … [...]

Pacific Coast Brewing Co

Pacific Coast Brewing Co – brewpub Downtown Oakland 906 Washington St, Oakland (Google Map) Official Site | Twitter | BeerAdvocate | Yelp House microbrew: $5 Open 11am, closes midnight Mon-Thu, 1am Fri-Sat, 11p Sun BART: 12th St Oakland City Center … Continue reading [...]

Episode 117 – Great Lakes Commodore Perry

One of our “Great Lakes Brewing” series, we examine the Commodore Perry IPA. The beer celebrates an epic battle fought by Commodore Perry and his men on Lake Erie during the war of 1812. This IPA actually presents a nice malt nose, which doesn’t nec… [...]

The Streets of Nice

Someone recently told me that Ralph McTell’s famous folk song “The Streets of London” was originally written about Paris. Well, all I can say is that neither London nor Paris has got anything on Nice for the number and variety of “street people”. The m… [...]

Peak Organic Nut Brown Ale

This ale opens with the pop of bitter citrus fruit before quickly and unexpectedly falling away to reveal a much softer and creamy dairy textured and tasting center. The finish is sweet and buttery and a little nutty. The unexpected dairy and sweet c… [...]

Wolaver’s Brown Ale

A robust Brown Ale possessing a slightly jagged, uneven bitterness. Thankfully the rough around the edges bite is rounded out by some welcome bready vanilla cake like flavors in the mid section. Finishing on a strong note, sweet caramel malt and yeasty… [...]

Beer & BBQ

Singapore; the land of great food. Maybe the greatest diversity of food anywhere (per sq kilometer), but no place is perfect. Sadly there is a dearth of certain ethnic food varieties here; there is no Ethiopian, no Hawaiian, no Samoan, only okay Mexic… [...]

Episode 116 – Great Lakes Burning River

We’re starting a series of four episodes dedicated to the wonderful liquid coming out of the Great Lakes Brewing Company, in Cleveland, Ohio. Mark Weinmann from Great Lakes was kind enough to drop a bunch of beer on us to try, so we’re going to brin… [...]