So this week, as an expression of sympathy to hard working American brewers who were dismayed that the President chose a foreign owned company to procure his beer, we are choosing a patriotic choice as the “Sip With Us Saturday Beer.”

The founder, Steve McAuslan, left his position as senior administrator at Dawson College, under the firm conviction that Quebec needed and could handle a quality beer, and that after 25 years of experience as a home brewer he was the guy to bring it to them.

Coming up soon, I’m going to start posting more pictures of the brews that we drink.  We want to make the site more visually stimulating while maintaining the same great content.  I have a ton of non-picture reviews stacked up, so I need to do those first.  In order to make this happen, I’m going [...]

Manland is a site that has really supported us, especially for knowing us such a brief time.  We have a banner on their site and the picture you see is one of the blog owners sporting the best shirt that ever existed (it’s our shirt).  So many people are helping us to become a better [...]

everyone reading this article right now had an epiphanous moment in which they realized that beer did not have to be a pale, flavor-free lager that short on malt and hop content, and pumped full of additives like rice.

Before reading this article, I implore you, attempt to get “Get Together,” by The Youngbloods stuck in your head. As the spirit of reconciliation and good will hovers in the news, it is a good time to review a beer born of collaborative efforts.  When two different brewers/breweries come together to create a unified beer, [...]

Nate mentioned quite a while back that we would eventually get around to reviewing Pliny the Elder.  He said this in his article on hops, which is worth a read.  Anyway, let me say that I’m not intentionally iconoclastic and that I simply don’t go looking for beers to denigrate.  In fact, I’m not going [...]

A brief moment of indiscretion, with the slip of a tongue, President Obama catapulted a percolating controversy into an international debacle.  What was the Gates/Crowley affair suddenly, with an unchecked honest opinion, became the Gates/Crowley/Obama affair and the incident, the arrest of the Harvard professor began to rise in import.  When it came out that [...]

Recently, I’ve bought a couple beers that explicitly told me not to cellar them.  Pliny the Elder from Russian River and 13th Anniversary Ale from Stone are the two that I’m thinking of specifically.  On the bottle, they make it seem shameful that one even has the idea to cellar their products. What do these [...]

When it comes to Stone Brewing Company, respect and admiration is due even if you are not one to rave about their product, like myself.  I do enjoy a stone beer, just typically, it does not get me up and dancing after the first sip.  So this past Saturday, as I popped open their 13th [...]