While interviewing for a job possibility the other day, I was looking at a Travel and Leisure magazine. Normally, I’m not that interested in what they have to say…unless I’m traveling soon. However, there wasn’t much else to look at so I went ahead and started flipping through and saw an interesting article about the [...]
Have you heard of Stragford Lough Brewing Company? If not, don’t feel bad…neither had I until a rep contacted me and offered some beer, free for sampling. (As an aside, why is it that so many beer fanatics feel ashamed if they aren’t on the leading edge of breaking craft beer news, new breweries, and [...]
This is our fourth attempt to do the uncouth: intentionally stereotype, our first attempt was a tad fun as was the last (and my favorite, “Partying Dudes”). You see, in a past post we discussed stereotypes a bit in a nonjudgmental and humorous attitude. It occurred to those who participated in the discussion that it [...]
Sitting, waiting, wishing is not an easy state of affairs. Considerable time goes into make some styles and types of beer. Specifically, Lambic is the style that is rolling around in my head. My Lambic is now about two and a half months old in the fermenter. I’m seeing the beginnings of pellicle formation, the [...]
I’m the type of guy that can drink any style of beer at any time during the year. that winter warmer taste just as delicious to me poolside as it does fireside. Nvertheless, the idea that certain beer styles are seasonal has some weight to it. A good Saison, when sipped on a humid summer [...]
Besides the fact that true Lambics are intensely complex, flavorful, and delicious beers, they can serve a higher purpose. The Lambic could have been designed to prove to the wine guy/gal that beer can be good. (1) Let’s start with the name of the Lambic, in this case the Framboise that I drank this past [...]
Nate appealed to us saying that we should drink a lambic for our SWUS festivities. My brother and I went to The Lost Abbey, so sipping some Amorosa was a no brainer. Actually, my brother went with the intention of buying some Isabel Proximus or Duck Duck Gooze…stumped on both accounts. I would loved to been able [...]
Bill Clinton–while trying to circumvent an incriminating answer to the Grand Jury regarding his Oval Office Philandering–stated, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is?” Rather than fess up to the truth of his affair (that was later confirmed from sequestered emails) Clinton beat around the bush in a semantic game. [...]
