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The "Beer Me!" Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
He's got a 21-year head start, but I'm catching up quick! I should reach 10,000 different beers on December 28, 2018. The first was Dinkel Acker. Dale Van Wieren of Lansdale, Montgomery County, cracked open the dark German lager on March 19, 1971, wrote its name in a notebook, poured himself a glass and put the bottle on a shelf. The next was Fix, a Greek beer, then, San Miguel from the Philippines....
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My Beer Pix (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
After closing up Port it was time to venture south and meet up with a friend. As always, BLAH, had a wonderful tap list including some sours, for a mini-sour fest just for the night. We started with a Super Freak from Green Flash and a Mission Armada double IPA. We talked and sipped and I [...]
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Appellation Beer (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Alan McLeod totally nailed it with his review of The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer, answering the two biggest questions I had while reading the book. - First, why are there homebrew recipes in this book? Can’t even a book for beginners be a bit specialized or must every introduction to craft beer [...]
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Blog About Beer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Needless to say, I was really excited when a friend who was up visiting from Massachusetts recently brought with him a bottle of Newport Storm (Coastal Extreme Brewing Co.) Luke. ‘Cause, well, that’s me. So maybe, given the beer’s name, I’m a little biased as I write my review. But regardless, this was one damn [...]
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The Brew Site (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since this week is the Thanksgiving holiday (at least, here in the U.S.), and I didn’t do Theme Week last week, I decided to combine the two and do something a little different: I’m going to be blogging this week about the stuff I’m thankful for as it relates to beer and this blog. The first [...]
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Beervana (Free subscription) | yesterday
Portland beer drinkers spend so much time talking about ourselves (I'm allowed--I have a blog ) that it's interesting to get the perspective of visitors. Today's report comes from John Dodge, writing for The Olympian . On Friday night we crossed the Willamette River to the Hawthorne neighborhood in southeast Portland for some more pub crawling. This neighborhood has a weathered, counterculture feel...
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Appellation Beer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Molson Coors has announced the launch of Molson M, the world’s only “Microcarbonated” lager beer. Microcarbonization is a revolutionary process implemened by Molson Coors at the company’s brewery on Notre-Dame Street in Montreal, a process during which the beer is injected with CO2 through smaller, finer bubbles with a high level of precision and consistency. “The [...]...
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Beervana (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tomorrow I will be filming a shot segment for the show "Keep It Local," which airs daily at 4pm on KOIN TV. We will be tasting winter beers, four or five, of which I have three identified. Don't know if it will air on Tuesday, but it conceivably could. For those of you with the fortune to be near a TV set at four, tune in--if only to see how many gaffes I commit. I'll do my best to track...
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Beercraft Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am no fan of the winter ale style. That’s because there isn’t a winter ale style, just a loose amalgam of strong ales with or without pumpkin-pie spices. Many brewers make them, and the characteristics of each one vary so widely that the drinker can’t usually get a sense of what the brewer was trying [...]
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The Brew Site (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Or perhaps this should be called “Alenog”: over on the “This is why you’re fat” blog is this concoction: “Ale boiled with butter, sugar, an egg yolk and topped with a whipped cream and nutmeg.” It simultaneously sounds gross and intriguing.
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A Roughneck's Take On Beer (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Hamtramck Beer Michigan Brewing Co. Webberville, Michigan I loved a girl once who lived in Hamtramck. She raved about how cool the town was and that being part of Detroit it was a hip-happening place. I'm sure that it was/is. Her college friends would party and watch bands there. I hate bars but went along a few times because her friends were just so wonderful and we should hang out with them more...
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The Bitten Bullet (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
It's been said before. The on-line beer community is a thriving little micro-cosm of generosity. Yesterday, a package arrived from Rick Kempen ( @eurodog on Twitter), the face of Bier & Co, the Dutch importers and wholesalers of the kinds of US craft beers that make beer geeks drool, and the suppliers of BeerTemple in Amsterdam, at which I had the pleasure of visiting on the opening night . The...
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Appellation Beer (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Roger Protz has the exclusive: “The (Bass) brewing museum and visitor centre in Burton-on-Trent has been saved and will reopen in 2010, possibly as early as Easter. This major victory is the result of a sustained campaign by beer lovers, brewery workers, the local MP and the Burton daily newspaper.” Molson Coors had announced it would [...]
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KC Beer Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I spent part of my Saturday doing the Boulevard Brewery tour with some friends from out of town. The tour itself hasn't changed much since earlier this summer, but now they have a slick new video about the brewery and the brewing process. The highlight of the video had to be Trip Hogue's "Trip Down Memory Lane." I was a little surprised to see the barrels in the aging room of the old brewhouse...
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Beer Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
If you are reading this then the beers I sent have reached their destination. This post is in place of the letter that was meant to go in with my beer swap parcel, I did write one I just forgot to put it in – along with a rather tasty bar of chilli chocolate i bought [...]
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