Drinking It All: #8 Old Stock Ale 2009
Drinking It All is a document of my attempt to try every beer in circulation. It's a Herculean and tragic attempt at best. But it's the means, not the end that counts here. -- Today I'm reviewing another beer that my wife brought home as a surprise. This beer is, like the last one, made by North Coast Brewing Co. I've only had one other of this brewery's beers, Red Seal Ale, and I am constantly trying to find it again. These are solid brewers. But so this beer is a "Limited Release," which is too vague to mean much to me,...
Brewed Slowly Update: #2 Cherry Stout
The cherry stout that we made for the holidays has been ready to drink for some time now. It's been busy around here, and most of the beers have gone out as presents, but I'm finally making time to talk about it here. Our cherry stout, also known as our Red-nose Stout, is pretty self explanatory. It's black as any stout, and it smells that way as well (like a stout, not black). You can smell the cherries somewhat, and you can taste them up front. Then you taste the stout. It's a pretty heavy beer. We added extra malt to...
Drinking It All: #7 Pabst Blue Ribbon
Drinking It All is a document of my attempt to try every beer in circulation. It's a Herculean and tragic attempt at best. But it's the means, not the end that counts here. -- PBR is, along with High Life, one of my favorite beers. If I'm drinking cheap domestic beer, PBR is what I go to 50% of the time. There's something to be said for blue collar beers, and this beer is one of the blue collar standards. I'm sure there are different go-to blue collar beers in different parts of the country, but I imagine PBR always ranks pretty...
Drinking It All: #6 Full Moon Winter Ale
Drinking It All is a document of my attempt to try every beer in circulation. It's a Herculean and tragic attempt at best. But it's the means, not the end that counts here. -- I picked up some of Blue Moon's Full Moon Winter Ale the other day for no real reason other than I've never tried it. And it was kind of cheap (Those seem like acceptable reasons). As much as I like really hoppy beers, I know that I've kind of got to try to drink other types of beer every once in a while. Full Moon is not really...
Drinking It All: #5 Cru D’Or Organic Belgian Style Ale
Drinking It All is a document of my attempt to try every beer in circulation. It's a Herculean and tragic attempt at best. But it's the means, not the end that counts here. -- A few weeks ago, my wife brought me some organic beer home from a fancy grocery trip. I'd told her to surprise me, and she did bring back some beer that I wouldn't normally be interested in trying. Ain't that the theme of this little series? She came home with some organic Belgian ale. After I looked it up on the webbernet (the bottle doesn't really have a...
Beers in New Orleans (12/12-13)
Last weekend, my wife and I went down to New Orleans with a couple of friends for the weekend. We'd gotten an awesome deal on a hotel in the Garden District from Travelzoo.com. And it was worth it. But this isn't a travelogue, so I'll just tell you about some beer. Note: I'm only going to talk about beers that I actually drank last weekend, even if I might reference other beers I didn't. Full disclosure: we did drink our fair share of regular old domestic beer (i.e., High Life and Budweiser) because we're not made of money, shit. Aside from...
Drinking It All: #4 Anchor Liberty Ale
Drinking It All is a document of my attempt to try every beer in circulation. It's a Herculean and tragic attempt at best. But it's the means, not the end that counts here. -- I got the grading finished yesterday. Hot damn. We're packing up and going to New Orleans for a few days this afternoon. Double hot damn. Since I'm relatively free of work, or at least work I get paid for, I figured it was time to start drinking for the website. So I went out last night with about 10 dollars to get some good beer to post about....
Drinking It All: #3 Sam Adams Cherry Wheat
Drinking It All is a document of my attempt to try every beer in circulation. It's a Herculean and tragic attempt at best. But it's the means, not the end that counts here. -- Between end-of-the-semester grading, painting and installing moulding and baseboards in a living room, and getting a Xmas tree and decorating, I'm trying to squeeze in this humble post this week so I don't fall completely off my 12 readers' radars. Like I've said before, I'm not much for fruity beers and can't think off the top of my head of one that I really, really like. But while...
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