Reviews
Look Out Nation, Here Comes MGD 64!
Brew Blog is reporting:
Miller Brewing Company told distributors today that it plans to roll out MGD 64 — a 64-calorie light beer — nationally this fall.
“With the brand building impressive momentum in the Midwest and West, the time is right to give beer drinkers across the country a chance to enjoy the unmatched refreshment and [...]
New Belgium Skinny Dip
I don’t know how I managed to make it two weeks into June without trying a New Belgium Skinny Dip. I’m hit and miss with most New Belgium styles. Fat Tire, while interesting and popular, has yet to achieve “anytime” status. In other words, I have to be in the right mood.
Skinny Dip though, has [...]
The Best IPA You Haven’t Heard of Yet
I was in Arkansas last weekend. So I’m a little biased, but if you haven’t had Diamond Bear’s Presidential IPA your life is incomplete. They claim the beer is so good because Arkansas has such great water. Whatever. It’s just goood.
Peak Organic Maple Oat Ale
I love Peak Organic. Before last week, I had tried both their Pale and Amber ales. Both outstanding! Unfortunately, the third time wasn’t a charm. At Whole Foods last week, I picked up a pint of the Maple Oat Ale. While it is certainly a fine beer, it doesn’t live up to its better known [...]
Red Hook Brewery: Take the Tour!
See, it was easy deciding to go to Red Hook. I’ve been drinking their ESB for years. LUV IT! And the wife and I happen to be in the neighborhood so, what the hell. Unfortunately finding the place is nearly impossible. I guess it would have helped to stop and ask directions, but being a [...]
Two Brothers’ Hop Juice
I finally got a taste. Lord almighty, the taste. It’s still hanging on … and I love it.
On Saturday my wife and I found ourselves in the neighborhood of one of three full-scale craft breweries in the Chicagoland area: Two Brothers Brewing Company. Their pale ale, The Bitter End, is widely available in local stores. [...]
Rock Bottom: Strong Belgian Rye Pale Ale
I don’t like wheat beer generally. I can’t explain it. There’s something about the taste of wheat based beer that just doesn’t sit right with me. But since I’ve been brewing beer I’ve also been trying to get used to the style. I figure there has to be something worth appreciating about it right?
Monday night, [...]
The Drinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down/ Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee/ Superior, they say, never gives up her dead/ When the gales of November come early.
These are the closing words of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” Great Lakes Brewing Co., pays tribute to the tragic event [...]
Yazoo City
I was sent to Nashville, TN on business this past weekend. I spent pivotal childhood years in small town east of the Music City but was definitely too young to drink. I was pre-hopped so-to-speak. Though … my step-father did give me my first sampling of the malty nector at age seven. Still, I was [...]
A Pilsner That Doesn’t Suck
I must admit that I am generally biased against pilsner style beer. I don’t know if its the tendency for American beer companies to add rice to the mash to lower the cost of production. Or whether its because some friends of my have an undue obsession with Stella Artois. But whenever I see the [...]
