Drinking It All: #28 Red Brick Laughing Skull Amber 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'm trying to clear out the build-up of beers I've saved inteding to post about them here, so today I've got another beer from the Peachtree Brewery (Red Brick Beers) in Atlanta, GA: Laughing Skull Amber Ale. I've been saving this beer for a while--the rest of the six-pack has long been gone. We were hanging out with some neighboorhood friends yesterday, and they were drinking the Red...
Drinking It All: #27 Heiner Brau Maerzen
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 my wife and I sold some homemade bread at the community market (sold it out, bitch), so I thought I'd go ahead and post about a beer I've been saving--Heiner Brau's Maerzen. This style of beer, according to the label, has been called by southern German monks 'Das fluessige Brot,' which means 'Liquid Bread.' So it seemed appropriate today. This Maerzen is a German style amber lager. But...
Drinking It All: #26 Rogue John John 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. – Before we left Atlanta last weekend (for you faithful readers of my humble serial), Steve sent us back with a big bottle of Rogue's John John Ale. Which said ale is a pale ale brewed with juniper berries (sound familiar?) and aged in spruce (wood) gin (liqour) barrels. I'll preface the rest of this post by saying that this beer may be the most complicated, in terms of...
Drinking It All: East Atlanta Beer Festival
My wife and I went to the East Atlanta Beer Festival this weekend with our friend, Steve, who lives in Atlanta. I took a little notebook with me to make notes about the beers at the festival and at restaurants and bars we went to, so then I could post about them. Such cataloging did not happen. But I did go back over the beer list at the festival and write down the beers I remembered trying, which, I'm pretty sure, is fairly accurate (the list). The beer festival was not the free-for-all crazy drunkfest that some people may think a beer...
Brewed Slowly: #7 American Pale Ale
So when I bought the stuff for the last beer I made (80 Shilling), I went ahead and got what I'd need to make a Pale Ale. I haven't made one in about six months, so I figured I was due for it. This time I wanted to try to make the beer more on the balanced side with regard to the malt/hops ratio than I would for, say, my attempts at an IPA. That said, I did buy the same hops that Sierra Nevada dry-hops their Torpedo IPA with with the intention of dry-hopping this pale ale similarly. The...
Drinking It All: #25 Lazy Magnolia Gulf Porter (cont.)
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. – Before you read this entry, you should (if you haven't already) read the first part. Monday, my wife and I did a little experiment in which we tasted the Gulf Porter, Sierra Nevada's Porter, and Lazy Magnolia's Southern Pecan (which, on Sunday, I was afraid the Gulf Porter mimicked too much). I got her to taste all three beers blind and tell me what they tasted...
Updated/corrected Beer By-product: Bread
Note: I'm updating this recipe and posting it again because I've since been omitting the milk and extra cup of water. The result is a lighter bread, with more air holes inside. After I made the Scottish 80 Shilling beer, I had a pound of Simpsons Crystal grains to do something with. Normally, I toss all the grains and hops into the compost bowl, but I've read that these grains can be used for other interesting means. So I figured: We buy whole grain bread, and I make beer, which can't be all that different from making bread. Light bulbs, virtually and...
Drinking It All: #25 Lazy Magnolia Gulf Porter
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 haven't posted a 'Drinking It All' in a while, and I've got a fair amount of beer piling up in our refrigerator (so much that I'm considering plugging in the beer refrigerator downstairs to catch the overflow). But I recently acquired a jug of Lazy Magnolia's Gulf Porter, which I opened yesterday, so I've got to write about it soon--as in now. Lazy Magnolia is the one,...
Brewed Slowly: #6 Scottish 80 Shilling
I've been watching a lot of golf this week (since The Players Championship is on tv), and I haven't yet posted about the last beer I've made. Now that I look at the date I brewed it on, I can't blame my tardiness solely on golf. In any case, here's the last beer I made. It's a Scottish 80 Shilling--a British session beer that's heavier on the malt than the hops. I got no pictures of the brewing process, but here's what I do got: an Ommegang Hennepin Belgian Saison to drink and Hollywood Town Hall on the stereo (Mostly, Jayhawks...
Drinking It All: #24 Tecate (Cinco de Mayo ed.)
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. -- Since today is Cinco de Mayo and we just got back from the Mexican restaurant (where there were so many people out, you'd think they were giving away free money), I thought I'd post about my favorite Mexican beer: Tecate. If my site actually received regular comments, I'd fully expect to get all kinds of responses about how Tecate isn't as good as insert any other Mexican beer here....
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