Drinking It All: #31 Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
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 had a birthday this past weekend and my good friends Ben and Selena got me a couple of four packs of fancy beer. Thanks, Ben and Selena. Also, they got me beers I haven't had before. So today I'm trying Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout. I think this is the first stout I've posted about (aside from the one I made), which is a shame because I like...
Drinking It All: #30 Brewery Ommegang’s Hennepin
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 just finished watching an episode of Drink Up (on the 'new' Cooking Channel that recently replaced the Fine Living Network), which was about beer, and since I wasn't doing anything else, I got out a beer to review. Lucky me and you. I decided on a Hennepin from Brewery Ommegang--a 'true Belgian-style saison.' I'm pretty sure I've made it evident that I'm no expert when it comes to...
Drinking It All: #29 Boulder Beer Co. Cold Hop
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. – It's been about a week and a half since I last posted because I've been somewhat busy making the bread that my wife and I sell at our community market. But now I'm cracking into some beers I've been saving up. Today I've got a beer called Cold Hop made by Boulder Beer Company. This beer looks like a joke. If I'm to be honest. The label reminds me...
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...
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...
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,...
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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