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...
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: #20 Red Brick Peachtree Pale 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've been in the yard again today. But now I'm done and I've got some beer to be drinking. I picked up another of Atlanta Brewing Co.'s beers the other day, and I'll go ahead and say that I'm more a fan of this one than the last one I reviewed--the Blonde Ale. Of course, this is probably obvious because it's a pale ale. (If you haven't read...
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....
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: #2 Rogue Juniper Pale Ale
Today I picked up a Rogue Juniper Pale Ale on my way home from getting some paint for a holiday home improvement project (see my wife's blog for details soon (shout-outs!)). I'm a fan of the other Rogue beers I've tried, specifically the Brutal Bitter and Dead Guy Ale, and I also have come to enjoy gin (which gets its pine flavor from juniper berries) in the last few years. So Rogue Pale Ale with juniper berries--where do I sign? This pale ale tastes, at first, about like a standard pale ale. Then you taste a bit of the pine...
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