If you follow this blog in any way whatsoever, this isn’t surprising to you, but this will be the last beer review on this website. I’m going to be re-focusing this site back to where it probably would be best served: my own writing. So I’m closing it out with a special one.
This isn’t to [...]
Often, the name or type of a beer is descriptive of what’s actually in the bottle. This is to the advantage of the advanced beer drinker, especially if s/he knows what s/he likes, or is looking for, or whatever. The problem with these descriptions is that they almost never taste like what you’d expect if [...]
I just happened to grab one of these on a recent shop. I generally like pilsners, which I would also term as “The American Standard Beer,” and tend to fall back on those when it’s time to knock back more than a few. For a long time, say, a couple years or so, Miller Lite [...]
I liked the label. It’s as simple as that–O’Fallon’s Smoked Porter has a retro-y label that I was sort of drawn to. I’m starting to lean towards porters and stouts as the beers that I tend to like, so I picked one of these up from my local beer cave.
Pretty awesome looking, yes? It looks [...]
It took some doing, and a couple weeks to orchestrate a meeting, but I was able to procure a bottle of New Belgium Brewery’s Fat Tire Ale. Quite a story, really.
Many, many months ago–no. That’s not it.
A friend of mine–let’s call him Wes (since that’s his name)–got in touch and told me that I [...]
This beer review has been two weeks coming. This tells you how far in advance I’ve been drinking the beers I review. Le Wif and I went to a one-year-anniversary party a couple Saturdays ago. It was our first night out without Le Bebe. We needed it.
The party was a good bit more classy than [...]
I can’t remember what list I was looking at when I added Fuller’s London Porter to my brew wish list. Not that that’s alarming or anything, but it came highly rated from somewhere. So I bought a bottle from my typical beer haunt close to the home in Northern Kentucky. The bottle’s somewhat impressive looking–it’s [...]
Can you take a guess? Here’s a hint: our house came with a whole-house filtration system. When the filter gets super-gummed up, though, our water can get to look like this in the right conditions.
So, if you guessed “White Ale,” you win the prize: the rest of this blog post. The pictured beer is [...]
Great Lakes Brewing Company makes a pretty good beer. Being a guy who’s trying to learn a little bit about beer and its varieties, I’ve been on the lookout for a porter and came across their Edmund Fitzgerald. I just figured it was a name, until I searched it and came up with this. I [...]
A couple weeks ago, I cracked open an Abita Golden as part of a good, solid pilsner beer that I could drink more than a couple of. After ditching the bottlecap, I took a big whiff. It smelled like a skunk’s dick. As you might imagine, I got super-excited to give a taste.
I don’t want [...]
Comstock, Michigan. That’s where Bell’s Brewery is. In my novice-level forays into the world of fine beers, it appears that there are quite a few Bell’s fanboys out there. At the “premier” beer-review websites, pretty much every Bell’s beer gets glowing reviews. In general, these reviews are earned.
I haven’t had that many Bell’s varieties yet, [...]
About a week or so after we got home from the hospital, I sent Le Wif out for a brief jaunt in the car because she was starting to get a little stir crazy. She’d been stuck on the couch and needed a little time doing something else. Good husband that I am, I happened [...]