It is almost quotidian that wine can be cellared. ”Bring out the bottle of ’58 Merlot.” Or whatever wine lovers may say. Wine has long been cellared by the wealthy, but even the average (and occasional) wine drinker has a bottle or two sitting around the house. But once again, wine’s ugly cousin beer has [...]
Trinken Sie mit uns! We are heading back to Bavaria, a land rich in beer history, for this weeks Sip With Us Saturday beer: Paulaner’s Salvator. Paulaner is one of those breweries that has achieved a certain respect over time, and for many a beer geek world wide, I dare say it is one of [...]
This is our second Friday of beer tasting at Crown Liquors in Avon. Last week we had Nogne Imperial Stout and Mekkeller’s Jackie Brown Ale, which I’ll be posting about really soon. As far as this week goes, Cavalier and Crown have teamed up to let me give you some more good beer to try. [...]
One hit wonders are not limited to the music industry. Aha is to 80′s pop as Primo is to Beer fads. Sure, plenty of breweries have one or two slam dunk beers that everyone can agree, but what really puts them on the map? There are two reasons I have been considering this: First, I [...]
Once a year. Why, oh, why? Having gone to the festival, I think I can understand why Dark Lord is only released once a year. If I were one of the brewers, I would love to have something special like this happening only once a year. What an event, what a time! Now that I’ve [...]
Perhaps this beer was doomed to get bad reviews from the beginning. After all, Three Floyds and DFH are known for their bold, sometimes very hoppy and extreme brews. So, I think when most people heard that they were doing a collaboration, they assumed this would be a a huge beast of a beer–something that [...]
I’m sure we’ve all had this experience: You are walking through the beer aisle sort of aimlessly without a target beer, or even a target beer style in mind. Your eye catches something vaguely intiguing. You’ve never heard of it. You don’t know how it has held up to judgmental tastebuds of beer reviewers. Yet [...]
What’s in a name? I don’t know if Shakespeare was right when he said, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” SkullSplitter would be a good smelling, tasting, and sipping beer. But something inexplicable tells me that I wouldn’t love it as much if the name were different. Sometimes an appellation can be [...]
I recently attended a beer fest here in my humble little rust belt city and had a blast…but for some reason, at times I felt like a fish out of water. The odd thing about this beer fest, was that nobody (besides the venders) interacted with me. Everyone seemed so focused on getting their monies [...]
There are moments in life when you see the best in people. Sometimes it’s something simple like when someone waves you into traffic. Other times it’s stopping to help if you are stranded on the road. But then there’s Dark Lord Day at Three Floyds brewery in Munster. Nate and I went this weekend not [...]
