Coming in at number 15 on Beer Advocate’s All-Time Best Beers on Planet Earth list, a bad review of Speedway Stout would be hotly contested indeed. I have no intention of offending the pundits when it comes to denigrating the reputation of so formidable a beer. In fact, I think it’s an excellent beer in [...]
To be clear, the intent of “VS” in the title for this post is to indicate comparison, not competition. After all, Dogfish Head is a favorite brewery of mine, and I enjoy just about all their brews…perhaps even the one made with spit, were I given the opportunity to try it. Nonetheless, when two things, [...]
This is a world class beer. If you haven’t tried it, you must, even if you shy away from Belgian beers, as many folks I know do.
Since we drank Fiddler’s Elbow and Hobgoblin on Saturday, I thought I might pick up Scarecrow Pale Ale, too. The trio of bottles were simply lovely together, and I personally thought that they might have been nice as Halloween beers. Halloween or not, these English Ales are all worthy of a try (or two). Nate [...]
Having worked to straighten out the beer section for a few days (I’m the beer guy at Whole Foods now), I’m dog tired. It’s amazing what will happen when a beer section is neglected. At any rate, I’ve had to bust my hump to get this thing in a good working order. Today I need [...]
This Saturday we will be switching things up for our our world famous, Sip With Us Saturday. Typically we pick a beer and then hope that all our readers purchase that beer and enjoy a remote sense of camaraderie in knowing that the same beer is being consumed by like minded individuals each Saturday. This [...]
An unusually warm 70 degree November day in Ohio made Wychwood’s Fiddlers Elbow seemed a perfect fit for my Saturday evening. Described as a beer that “evokes the lazy, hazy days of summer in golden meadows & ripe corn fields,” I assumed a light and fruity beer. To some extent it was, and to some [...]
If you haven’t noticed by now, Christmas beers are really starting to pour in. I’ve seen some that I’m really interested in…and then I’ve seen some others. I’m looking forward to Affligem, St. Bernardus Christmas, and Delirium Noel. I’m sure that I’ll be picking up some others, but in some sense, it’s beginning to look [...]
In my last post that dealt with the cost of beer, I mentioned the impact of grains. My expatiation was plenty for many of you. And since “brevity is the soul of wit, brief let me be.” Hops are important on various levels for making a beer. There was a time in history when they [...]
Even as I’m writing this, I fully realize that writing a series on yeast is of particular interest to homebrewers. Nevertheless, I’m still hoping that numerous people will find this to be an interesting posting series. Let me mention briefly how I arrived at the idea for this series, and then, contrary to what might [...]
