The Bruery makes some pretty good stuff, and White Oak is certainly no exception. If you like Allagash Curieux, you’ll likely enjoy this. White Oak is a wheat wine, aged in bourbon barrels. It’s no secret that I love bourbon. If beer didn’t exist, I would have a bourbon site. I first tried the White [...]
Ale on lees. Yum! When I see “ale on lees,” I know it’s a Unibroue beer, and I’m typically a fan… no matter who owns them. Even if it had Trader Joe’s on the label, I thought it’d be worth a spin. And for $4.99 on a 750ml bottle that was 9%ABV, I was willing [...]
Bottles, bottles everywhere. Between empty and full homebrew bottles, I’ve got a ton of bottles sitting around. I don’t know if any of you homebrew, but maybe you have the same problem. Yet, there’s even more than meets the eye. I’ve got bottles of beer that I’m planning to drink but it seems like I [...]
Pure lambics are hard to find no matter where you go or where you live. Of course, it might be easier to find them in Belgium. It seems that, for now, brewers and the public are content to drink blended lambics. Gueuze is about as close as we get to an unadulterated version of the [...]
A brief email conversation with Scott of Manland led to this week’s first Sip With Us Saturday beer, Maharaja. A little bit of conversation with Peter, of Simply Beer regarding his review of Maharaja and its sister beer, DuganA led me to choose DuganA as a second beer this week. You see, I’ve had both [...]
I don’t know how you feel about Guinness. I like it, but I really like Murphy’s Irish Stout. So I re-created an Irish Stew using Murphy’s rather than Guinness. I love to eat this and drink it with its base beer. The result? Well, judge for yourself. Here’s the recipe (of course, proportions are adjustable): [...]
The Jolly Pumkin’s Perseguidor 5 (their fifth release) is a coveted beer for several reasons: 1) It is a “Grande Reserve.” This means it has been extensively aged. I was told by a Jolly Pumpkin employee that this years release was three years old, which probably includes the six months it aged on oak as [...]
I am maybe one of the least qualified people to speak on MLK day about Martin Luther. However, I’m simply going to make a quick series of observations. I think many, if not most of us, know about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s namesake. Martin Luther, after whom Martin Luther King, Jr., was named, was the [...]
WARNING: THIS IS A RANT This past Sunday my wife and I made the trek to Ann Arbor, MI to so I could pick up a few bottles of Jolly Pumpkin’s special release of Perseguidor (review coming soon). My wife stayed in the van with our kids while I joined the line that was already [...]
If you are a home brewer, you are already a do it yourselfer to a degree. I mean, you are making the beer you drink. But maybe you are still using extracts. Simply said, extracts are primarily made of maltose, which is the byproduct of saturating grains at set temperatures to convert starches (complex sugars) [...]
