Drinking It All: #19 Red Brick Blonde 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. -- So I'm finally finishing up with the beers I'd saved up to post about. This is the last one. I don't have the bottle in the picture, like I usually do, because the label came off the beer at some point, and you'd just be seeing a plain brown bottle--not that informative. But I do remember what beer it is based on the bottle cap. This is the...
Drinking It All: #18 Terrapin Hopsecutioner
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. -- Back on to some IPAs. Today I've got Terrapin Beer Co.'s Hopsecutioner. Hopsecutioner is just one of several IPAs that brandish a clever title involving hops due to the high hop content. This kind of beer, to me (and others, I'm sure), is more a hops delivery vehicle than anything else. Which doesn't really sound that appealing, but it sometimes is enough. Terrapin's IPA has its (and a few...
Drinking It All: #17 Sam Adams Double Bock
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've been doing some mind-numbing reading this afternoon and thought I'd break it up (or end it) by posting about another fancy beer I've been saving. A friend brought me some of Sam Adams' Double Bock a few weeks back, so I made sure to keep one to post about. Here we go. This Double Bock is a lager, which is a type of beer I don't review much...
Drinking It All: #16 Amnesia I.P.A.
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. -- Back to the fancy beers. Today I've got the Amnesia IPA from Indian Wells Brewing Co. in California. I've been saving this beer for about a month--I picked it up while out of town a while back and am just now getting around to reviewing it. I'm by no means an expert on beer types/tastes, although I've had enough IPAs, and like them so much, that I'm pretty confident...
Drinking It All: #15 Steel Reserve
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. -- This'll be the last of my cheap beer posts for a bit. I've got lots of good beer waiting in the refrigerator to be posted about, and I want to get to it. A little while back, I bought a 4-pack of Steel Reserve, and I've had 3 so far--on the fourth right now. What does Steel Reserve taste like? Not much. Carbonation more than anything. This beer gives me...
Brewed Slowly: #5 Kolsch
This is the first beer I've made in a little while. Actually it's been over a month since the last beer I made. So that's longer than I'd like it to be. I don't think I got too rusty in the meantime, but we'll see. I waited to post about this beer until I bottled it, and right now, the beer's just gotten into the bottles. We'll see it again in a couple of weeks or less depending on how impatient I am. I decided to make a Kolsch this time. It's not a beer I'm very familiar with, but...
Drinking It All: #14 Natural Ice
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 really thought it might be fun to try some of these cheap beers and post about them since you probably won't read about them in any serious beer publication, internet or otherwise. But I'm about ready to post about some good beers--and I've got plenty saved up. But before I'm done with the cheap beers, I've got two more to cover. And they're serious cheap beers. We'll start...
Drinking It All: #13 Keystone Light Tallboy
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. -- The next stop in cheap beer land is Keystone Light. This beer is Coors Light's little cousin, just as Beast is Miller Lite's little cousin. The fact that I'm not a drinker of Coors Light, or really any Coors product, should make this review fairly objective (or that's what we'll say). There's a label on this beer's can that claims it's "Always Smooth." These two words are trademarked as...
Shit’s On Now
Filed under: Brewed Slowly, DIY, beer, brewing, drinking it all
There is now an official beer refrigerator on the property. Here's a picture of the fridge (sp?) that's in the basement: Marvel at its ability to extract internal heat from items (i.e., beers) and leave them cold to the touch. Magic! See how it stands free of cumbersome generators and complicated machinery. Self-contained! Super! Is that a handle allowing easy access inside the machine? Goddamn right it is! In there's where the beer goes! Now that we're done with all the shouting, here's what the refrigerator (correct spelling--looked it up) is going to do: 1. House any prospective beers that need to be...
Drinking It All: #12 Milwaukee’s Best Tallboy
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. -- Over the next few Drinking It All posts, I'm going to take a little detour from the IPAs and other craft beers that are likely to cost six or more dollars a sixpack. I invite you to come with me and wander around the seventh circle of beer world (I won't call it hell--it is still beer) and try some beers you might not have had since the...
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