Not vomiting in my mouth will be difficult during this post. While at work, I saw something that damaged me irrevocably. The author of Drink This, not That (the link to this site says it all) was asked the question of which beer to drink that was low calorie but still tasted good. Answer: Bud Select [...]
Atomistic materialism? So I don’t hold to some of the finer points of Epicurean philosophy like the belief in a strictly material universe and the neutrality of the pantheon. Nor am I as strictly close to acetisism as he was. What I can say is this, Epicurus has been pretty badly represented in and among [...]
Excuse me while I get personal…this is a first person point of view post. I am just sick of beer reviews. Blah. Boring. Now, if you review beers frequently for your blog, please don’t get mad at me, because I review beers too. I’m not really preaching to the choir, I’m preaching to the preacher [...]
Kelpie Ale, by Williams Brothers Brewery, is a beast of an Ale, in name and flavor. No, I’m not joking…as cute as “Kelpie” sounds and as wimpy as 4.4% ABV may seem, sometimes there’s more than meets the eye. The beer, based of historic Scottish ales that were brewed on the coast using malts that [...]
As a disclaimer from the start, I want to categorically state that I did not use this yeast for fermentation. This yeast was used at bottling and for the conditioning of my Saison. So, if you are looking for performance of this yeast strain of normal fermentation cycles, then perhaps this will not be that [...]
This is for you, Scott from Manland. It wasn’t more than a year or so ago that I started having quite a bit of interaction with my (now friend) Scott. He would write me, talk about beer, and ask some advice. He was kicking around the idea of homebrewing, which I knew would keep getting [...]
This is officially our 700th post on the site. It’s a little hard to believe that we started this thing not quite two years ago and have reached a landmark. Writing that much is always a lot of work, but we hope to keep putting posts up. At any rate, I thought we would do [...]
This week’s Sip With Us Saturday beer is unlike any other SWUS brew we’ve drank together, in that there is a rather strange addition to the brew: Seaweed. The beer, Kelpie, that hales from Scotland’s Williams Brothers Brewing Company follows the pattern of a very historical approach to their brews. Williams may be best know [...]
