This beer was part of a Drink with us Friday that we did a while back. It was one of many options for that particular Friday. The first product, from Fuller’s, that I reviewed on here was a Fuller’s Vintage Ale; that particular beer was five years-old. That is just one of many fine products [...]
The other day I was heading to work and listening to NPR, and I heard a cool story, which I want to share with our readers. I also want to use it as a source of exhortation. India was the locale of this particular story. Basically, some hard-line Hindus were protesting the celebration of the [...]
Three Floyds finally posted some stuff about their Dark Lord Day on April 25th 2009. Here is a link that you need to click in order to register, to make sure that you get some of this beer. I know that it took them a while to put up a date and such, but I [...]
Hope, change, and togetherness. All these words seem to embody the rhetoric of our politicians. A hope that we can look past partisan politics and get our economy, in fact, our country, on track seems to be becoming a more and more remote proposition. I know: let’s form another sub-committee on a sub-committee to try [...]
Per requests that we have gotten, we are planning on posting about home-brewing this spring. You are cordially invited to read our step-by-step “how to home-brew series.” We want to have all of our articles written out before we post the first one. I hate dragging things along forever, especially when they are step-by-step. But [...]
Why are hops in beer? The simple answer is, “It’s the law.” Sort of. You see, the earliest example of regulatory action taken on a food industry was in Bavaria in the 1490′s, demanding certain standards purity and excellence in food preparation and distribution. The law, Reinheitsgebot, was expanded in 1516 to include beer, for [...]
I cannot help but wax nostalgic as I anticipate this Friday’s beer. The first Drink It With Us Friday beer here on Thank Heaven For Beer was DogFish’s Raison d’Etre, reviewed way back in August of 2008. The relationships that have been built since then is what inspires Mike and I to keep up this [...]
It may seem silly indeed for a Belgian brewer to make a Scottish style ale. Yet, you begin to think, “Why not, they make some many other things well?” What did I think? When I poured this beer it had a big, billowing head–maybe not typical for many Scottish Ales but very typical for Belgians. [...]
We’ve already reviewed Old Foghorn and Small beer by Anchor, but how does their Porter stand up? I’ve said before that Samuel Smith’s Taddy Porter is my favorite of this style, so I tend to compare others to it. Anchor is only slightly different in color that Samuel Smith’s, which is to say that it’s [...]
Ever been drinking a beer and the head just seems to dwindle into nothing? I’m sure this has happened. The head on a beer is a good source to release the aromas (and by proxy the flavors of the beer, since smell is indispensable to taste). If you’re drinking a beer that lacks aroma and [...]
