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Red Wine Welcome After Long Thanksgiving

It’s the little things. Like coming home from a long trip and wanting something to drink, only you don’t know what that something is. You walk into the kitchen for the first time in days, dragging bags behind you, the house cold and quiet and sad for its prolonged vacancy, your back sore from piloting [...] [...]

The Brewvie Review: The Walking Dead

This will be the first Brewvie Review of a TV series, but it had to be done. And now that I’ve done it once, expect me to do it for some of the other shows the wife and I plop down to watch during the week. But I’ll start off with AMC’s The Walking De… [...]

Vit helg i Köpenhamn

Inte vit i meningen alkoholfri, utan på grund av det härligt vintriga snöandet som på pågick i princip hela helgen, med ett kortare avbrott under söndag förmiddag. Jag hade lyckats dra på mig en förkylning innan och var på grund av det inte s… [...]

Bottled-on Dates

I’m having a problem here in Humboldt County. We’re just too damned out of the way. There is a great appreciation for craft beer here. Hell, I live within 30 miles of five distinct breweries. California and Oregon’s finest micro-brews rock the display cases and new offerings from Stone or Lagunitas invariably fly off the [...] [...]

San Francisco Fryday

I took no small amount of shit from my friends when I recently admitted to never having visited San Francisco.  Some even said they lost a little respect for me.  (Why they held any in the first place is anybody’s guess.)So when my beer hikin… [...]

Mocha Death from Iron Horse Brewing

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays to pair beer with. When sifting through the wide variety of choices at my local bottle shop, it reminds me how far American craft beer has come in the last twenty years. With maverick Sam Calagione from Dog… [...]

Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale

English Pale Ale is a true workhorse beer style. For me, English Pale Ales epitomize the kind of beers a majority of us really appreciate at the end of a long day – a touch bitter, full yet refreshing and light enough in alcohol to soberly enjoy a few … [...]

Sun King Osiris Pale Ale

This Pale Ale from Indiana is yet further proof that great beer also comes in cans, in fact, this example is significantly better than many of its bottled brethren. The aroma is extremely sunny and floral, with lush sweet herbaceous notes – certainly a… [...]

Danish Craft Beer sampling – Copenhagen

There’s nothing better that comes to mind on a frosty snowfall-infused evening than relaxing with a robust Christmas beer – and there’s no better place than Denmark to do it.  Or so I thought!  In my short 3 evenings here in Copenhagen, I finally managed to find one worthwhile Christmas beer, but more about that [...] [...]

Beer Bloggers Conference and Where did November go?

Where has November gone? I can’t believe it is nearly December 1st (my birthday) already.I attended the 1st Annual International Beer Bloggers conference the first weekend of November, then immediately headed out of town to help my father move. When I … [...]

A Tale of Two Elves

Like many of you, every November when Troeg’s Mad Elf hits the shelves of my favorite beer distributor, I pick up my yearly case. I’ve even been known to set aside a six-pack for later enjoyment. The aroma and… [...]

Young’s Special London Ale

Qué ganas tenía de probar esta cerveza. La encontré en el Oktoberfest y me la llevé sin dudarlo.Young´s Special London Ale es una cerveza fabricada por la compañía inglesa Wells & Young que entra dentro de la categoría de las Extra Special/… [...]

A welcome back with a WiezenBock

I admit that it has been harder than I had imagined to make the time and muster the effort to keep this blog going at a serious level.One of my problems has been that I don’t get out much … that is, out of Mie. Another angle for the blog I had tried … [...]

Michelob Dunkel Weisse

Michelob Dunkel WeisseMichelob Brewing Co.St. Louis, MissouriI haven’t drunk a dunkel weisse in probably two years and don’t recall the last one I had so I’ll just wing it here and pretend to know what I’m talking about. The one thing that I can tell y… [...]

Någon som kan skiljas från en flaska Idjit?

Jag hade tänkt köpa några flaskor av Dugges Idjit! när den släpptes på Systembolaget för ett par veckor sedan. Satt på jobbet på måndag morgon och inväntade att klockan skulle närma sig 10 för att bege mig till Nordstan. Blev i stället ak… [...]

Tech Problems Lead Me To Writing, But Do Not Fret My Beer Bloggin’ Ones It’s Time To Reveal All, Grab a Beer & Class Begins….Now

Most of you are in “the know” as to what I’ve been up to as of late (well kind of). If you read that post below, you’ll see that I’ve been talking about moving over to a video format all together for some time now, and that the post below was supposed to be one [...] [...]

Calling in the CPAs to do Some Number Crunching

Total Beers: 944Where I Should Be: 906.849So you might have noticed I put the numbers up front.  The total beers includes my Thanksgiving weekend totals you’ll see at the bottom here.  I did the Bethlehem Brew Works Rude Elf Reserve tasting a… [...]

Sam Adams Winter Ale Review

Next up, as I continue on through my Sam Adams winter 12 pack, is the Winter Ale.  I’m not a big ale drinker, but this one started to grow on me as it began to warm up. As you can see, it poured a dark copper color and had a HUGE head build up. … [...]

MAPA DE CERVECERÍAS

Antonio, uno de los socios, nos mandó hace un tiempo ínformación sobre su cafetería-cervecería. Nos comenta que ahora mismo tiene de barril la Budejovicky rubia y negra, y de botella unas 20 o 30 referencias que van variando. Encontramos en su car… [...]

34th Annual Fall Tasting Recap

Approximately 120 members and guests attended the 34th Annual Fall Tasting & Dinner at Reza’s Restaurant. A whopping selection of 18(!) craft beers were available for all to sample in our now-standard walk-around format. Then, after careful evaluation, attendees cast ballots  for the top beers  in both session beer and strong beer categories. After [...] [...]