So many times we’ve had beers on here that many of you couldn’t get.  Well, my answer to that is to occasionally post a beer that most everyone can get.  Although I’ve said before that I don’t feel this is a classic example of Pale Ale as a style, it is a beer to be [...]

Several posts ago we talked about those beers that are so unsettling, you, the connoisseur are left with no recourse but to empty the contents down the drain. Upon asking your opinion, the responses made me chuckle. Whether it was Dave equating Coors Light with urine, Jason ridiculing imitation craft beer, or Vince confirming everything, [...]

I have mentioned the beer Dark Lord on a couple of occasions in the short life of our website (no need to post a link to my articles that only briefly touched upon this beer).  Let me say first, I’ve never actually had this beer.  But word on the street is that this beer is [...]

I’ve had some things by Anderson Valley that I think are pretty good.  I liked Brother David’s Triple a lot.  They have some other stuff that I don’t particularly enjoy (Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout is an example).  Let’s see how their Pale Ale measures up.  (Click here to learn about Pale Ale as a style.) [...]

I recently had this Cold Nose Winter Ale when I was in Idaho, which is its place of origin.  When I poured the beer, it was Porter in color and had a soft stable head.  Beyond this, there was not too much to look at. But when I smelled it…man, was this beer full of floral and citrusy hops [...]

Wow…what a beer. I let this sit down in my basement for days to allow settling and for proper serving temperature (55°).  As I poured it, I knew this was a sipping beer.  It poured with lower viscosity than any beer I have reviewed on this site.  The color was a deep amber/brown color, with [...]

One Helles of a beer.  Okay, I know that was predictable, but name five people who wouldn’t have made that joke.  If you actually can name five, you are around people who are too serious. Seriously, though, one Helles of a beer.  In this case, Helles means blond or blonder than their dark version of the beer.  [...]

This Friday we will be drink a little bit of history…Thomas Hardy’s Ale. The great thing about this beer, is that it has been aged already.  For most of us we’ll br drinking the 2005 editions.   Perhaps some money-bags out there will find the 1968 edition and humiliate us all. I have never tried this [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, hops were not always king when it came to bittering or flavoring a beer.  So, when the William’s Brothers Brewing Company made their “Historic Ales” collection, it was not “historic” in the first-time sense of the word.  It was a blast from the past.  I had actually had all but this one [...]

Have you ever tasted a beer that was so bad you just couldn’t finish it? Really, we want to know…what was it?  Go further if you can.  What, in your opinion, makes a beer “sink worthy?” Or are you one of those as-long-as-there’s-alcohol-in-it-I’ll-drink-it-even-if-it-tastes-like-urine beer drinkers. Don’t get me wrong.  I can drink a lot of [...]