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: #23 Sierra Nevada Torpedo
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 haven't posted in a while (I know you've noticed), but I've now turned my grades in and am ready to talk about some beer. Also, my wife and I got back from Alabama today, and after making a ridiculous stop at Whole Foods, I've got shitloads of beer to write about. It felt like a very yuppie-ish/hipster-ish Smokey and the Bandit run across the state line...
Drinking It All: #21 Dogfish Head Aprihop
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've got a beer from Dogfish Head Brewery. Dogfish Head is arguably one of the most interesting American craft breweries, and from the beers I've tried, it's easily one of the best. All of their beers I've had would make very short lists. So my friend knows that I really like the Dogfish Head beers, and he brought some over when he came to visit this past...
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: #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: #11 Sweetwater IPA
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 last of the papers have been graded--it's officially time for beer. So, I'm going through and finishing the hanger-ons from some sixpacks I bought specifically to post about. Today I'm on the last Sweetwater IPA from a sixpack a friend brought back with him the last time he was in town. Sweetwater's the premeire, I guess, brewery in Atlanta, GA. Or at least it's the only one I...
Drinking It All: #10 Sierra Nevada 2009 Anniversary 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've been out of commision for some time now. And I've been saving some last-of-the-sixpack-beers for posts but have also been too lazy to post. The beers are still there, I'm still here, you are (I guess) still there, so let's talk about some fucking beer. Specifically Sierra Nevada's 2009 Anniversary Ale. This beer's an IPA style, which I'm happy about, but they change the recipe every year....
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...
Brewed Slowly Update: American IPA
I know I've slacked a little on updating the progress of the first Brewed Slowly entry and how the beer has turned out. I started trying them about a week and a half ago to see how far the carbonation was coming. I know you're dying to know. Well, now they're carbonated to my liking, a little softer than your Budweiser or High Life, but sharper than, say, a Guiness. I'll admit that I'm pretty pleased with the taste. This was the first beer I've dry-hopped, and the process really does make a difference. My wife says it reminds her of...
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