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Little Woody 2010

The Little Woody is back, and what a difference a year makes!  Here in Bend, OR we have more than our fair share of good beer.  We have multiple GABF and World Beer Cup winners.  We have breweries both large and small cranking out world-renowned beer.  And now, in its second year, we have The [...] [...]

Estrella Galicia

Descripción:Siempre le tuve ganas al pack de Estrella Galicia, que vienen 6 botellas de 330 ml y una linda copa para tomar cervezas de tipo lager. Después de patearla varias veces en el super por el simple hecho de llevar algo más interesante, me de… [...]

Snippets

Bury St EdmundsThe weekend just past saw me back in Bury St Edmunds. I met a friend for a lunchtime session in the town’s premier real ale pub The Dove. I’ve blogged about this pub before. The beer quality in this pub is so incredibly good and it’s… [...]

Great Divide Hercules Double IPA

Now this is my beer style!Call me crazy, but I like a good IPA. I like it when it’s so hoppy it burns bitterness into your palate and ruins any other taste for the rest of the day. I like it so hoppy that nobody else likes it except me!Great Divide B… [...]

Pumpkin Beer Review 2010

For all of its fun and frivolity, the seasonal beers of summer are notoriously un-fun. Perhaps the activities of the season itself are so much fun that the beermakers of the world have concluded that really good beer is not necessary to enhance the bee… [...]

Beer Vid: Firestone Walker XII Anniversary

John Bryan with Firestone Walker was nice enough to bring some of the incredible 12th Anniversary along to share with me and the boys. I hear it’s trading for about $150 buck a pop so we were way thankful to get our lips on it. If you can get this beer DO IT! 234beerVeeple Interactive [...] [...]

Did the Breweries Invent Chicken Wings? (Beer #5 Rickard’s Red)

I am catching up yet again.  I had the pleasure of another classic wings and beer outing with a good buddy I hadn’t seen in a while (I know, this seems to be a theme.  What can I say, I have two kids.)  This time we visited the venerable Toronto wing joint Bistro on Avenue. [...] [...]

Foto de la Semana (Dulle Teve)

 Hola de nuevo hoy os vamos a hablar de una cerveza belga, la Dulle Teve de la cervecera De Dolle Brouwers o traducido al cristiano “Los Cerveceros Locos” . El fundador de la cervecería fue un doctor en medicina, Louis Nevejan. Una vez &nbs… [...]

Claire’s top 10 cookbooks

When I wrote up my top ten books it caused some consternation from a few people not least Claire who has her own, very well defined list of books.So here they are in no particular order (apart from number one which at the moment is Claire’s all time fa… [...]

Limited Fruit Beer Release #1: Yes, There Will Be 2!

Ok, so a less than descriptive title, but it’s an honest one at least. Which do you want? Honesty or Comprehension? Both? Hmm, I’ll work on it. So on to the beer I’m looking into right now. Granville Island’s Raspberry Wheat Ale is by far the reddest beer I’ve ever had. At first that was [...] [...]

Coaster: Duvel

Still one of my favorite beers of all time, I picked up this Duvel coaster in Belgium as the dual Flemish/French tag  line gives away. Roughly translated, “Shhh…here we serve ourselves Duvel.” It’s a play on the slogan on the outside of the Moor… [...]

Brit Pop

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Problemi Del Borgo

Io amo le birre che produce Leonardo Di Vincenzo, non parlerei mai male di lui e della sua azienda, però ultimamente, soprattutto dopo l’accordo con Interbrau a questo punto, mi è capitata ripetutamente un situazione spiacevole… Le sue birre vengon… [...]

Craft Beer at a tipping point?

An idea I had never considered:  explosive growth in “craft” beer is unsustainable, and has probably already peaked (mostly because of value of shelf space conflicting with need for variety).  Article by the “beersage” in 3 pa… [...]

Baltimore Beer Week 2010

Baltimore Beer Week 2010 is dropping anchor in the Land of Pleasant Living from October 7th to 17th. My favorite event of the week is the Chesapeake Real Ale Festival held at the Pratt Street Ale House on October 16th – more than a dozen brewerie… [...]

Goose Island Hex Nut Brown Ale

Brewery: Goose Island Beer Company Beer: Hex Nut Brown Ale, Pint Style: Brown Ale POP: Goose Island Wrigleyville Price: $5? I live on the North side of Chicago. I don’t live in Wrigleyville proper, but I am walking distance from Wrigley Field. Though I’m mostly indifferent about baseball, I did grow up a White Sox [...] [...]

Revolution / 3 Floyds Collaboration: Sodom & Gomorrah

Brewery: Revolution Brewing Company / Three Floyds Brewing Company Beer: Sodom (snifter) & Gomorrah (pint) Style: Russian Imperial Stout, Small Stout POP: Revolution Brewing Company, Chicago Price: $9 snifter, $5 pint Sometimes I struggle with whether or not to post about limited-run beers that I know are gone. Most of the time I spend so [...] [...]

Sam Adams, Black Lager

Boston Beer Company Grade: B-Appears black at first, but when you hold it up to the light, it becomes a deep blood red. A tan head tops the beer, falling to a thin layer fairly quickly. Dark brown sugar, molasses, bread and toast all come up from the a… [...]

Grimm Realities and Some Photos

I see that I’ve only posted about two new posts a month for the past few months. Here’s to consistency, I guess. Guess I’ll ramble on and post some pictures that I’ve had in the hopper for some time.I’ve sampled plenty of new beers and probab… [...]

A tale of two beers. Adnams Innovation and Sam Hill Homebrew

The first beer I’m going to write about today is a pretty special one. When I won the World Cup Beer Sweep my prize was three cases of beer, one from Ales by Mail, one (still to arrive) from the Highland Brewing Company and one from Adnams. The one I w… [...]