Drinking It All: #3 Sam Adams Cherry Wheat

December 3, 2009 by Ed · 2 Comments
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cherry coke for adults

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. -- Between end-of-the-semester grading, painting and installing moulding and baseboards in a living room, and getting a Xmas tree and decorating, I'm trying to squeeze in this humble post this week so I don't fall completely off my 12 readers' radars. Like I've said before, I'm not much for fruity beers and can't think off the top of my head of one that I really, really like. But while...

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Brewed Slowly: #2 Cherry Stout

November 29, 2009 by Ed · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Brewed Slowly, beer, brewing 

I'm not a fan of fruity beers (or negative construction introductions), but today Steve and I made a Cherry Stout. We have our reasons. It's a holiday beer of sorts. Steve brought some Sam Adams Cherry Wheat for the occasion. (I got no pictures because our digital camera (my other camera's an old-school film kind) killed the batteries as soon as I turned it on to take some pictures of the process. Imagine pots and brown/black liquid. Smiling faces on two medium handsome men.) This might be the darkest beer yet. Like dark as in black hole with chocolate milk froth as...

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