Drinking It All: #26 Rogue John John Ale

May 27, 2010 by Ed · Leave a Comment
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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...

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Drinking It All: East Atlanta Beer Festival

May 23, 2010 by Ed · 1 Comment
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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...

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