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 [...]
No, seriously. I’d like to get together with some peeps to just drink a couple beers together, say, next Friday–that’s the 24th, maybe around 6:30 or so.
Around the end of their 20’s and into their 30’s, men don’t seem to hang out with each other enough. I’m not sure why that is, but it happens. I’m [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Okay. A while back, I posted a beer review that mentioned the fact that I don’t really know what I’m doing when it comes to drinking and tasting beers. This is absolutely true, and I was thinking the other day about something completely embarrassing. More than completely embarrassing, especially when it comes to drinking beers [...]
Oh. My. God. It tastes like chocolate and coffee. It’s thick and dark. Just the right about of bitterness. It’s like a magical liquid meal. This beer is North Coast Brewery’s Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout.
Given that I’m more or less a beer novice, here’s what I understand about a regular old stout versus a [...]
As part of my seemingly never-ending quest to find tasty beers, I came across one that interested me at Beer Advocate a few weeks ago. I finally found it in the form of a 4-pack at one of my local liquor stores. It’s Bluegrass Brewing Company’s Jefferson’s Reserve Bourbon Barrel Stout (BBCJRBBS for short). [...]
I’m well aware that I don’t try a new beer in the way that is generally accepted to be “correct.” The first thing I do when I crack one is stick my nose in the bottle. Usually, the beer smells more or less the same as it does after it’s in the glass. Not so [...]