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: #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...
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...
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