Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest Fresh Hop Ale (or as us in the know call it “SNSHHFHA,” pronounced, obviously “sin-shif-haa”) is a blast of hopped goodness from one of the originators of the Craft Beer movement, Chico, CA’s Sierra Nevada. It’s no secret that these guys make great beer, and besides having perhaps the greatest, [...]
It’s not terribly surprising, given the reputation of Lager in general, that this Two Brothers Dortmunder Style brew is one of the first of this classification to be reviewed on the blog so far. While rightfully vilified American Standard Lagers aren’t likely to grace these pages, many excellent examples of beer styles whose means of [...]
Ah yes the Blind Tiger treats me well again. The day after I went with Ceeg to sample some fine brews I found myself back there waiting to meet up with some friends in the west village. Spying the board, I noticed that the Ola Dubh 30, which I had tasted 6 oz [...]
The Pugsley Brewing LLC has unleashed (no pun intended) a foul beast upon the beer drinking world. Several actually the entire Sea Dog line seems to be an ill advised trip into a world where adjuncts are what make a beer. I can sort of wrap my head around a blue berry and [...]
Yeah another Southern Tier review from t-bone, I know, enough already, but DAMN if this ain’t the one! Thanks to Stinky for pointing me in this direction on my search for a heavily hopped wheat, its exactly what I’ve been looking for.
The pour is a deep gold with a cloudlike two-finger head. I was immediately [...]
I tend not to be a huge fan of British barley wines. Huge, sweet and syrupy, they seem to me at least to be the most unnecessary style of beer around. If you want sherry drink some sherry. At least part of this opinion was formed by drinking too young bottles [...]
This blog hasn’t been showing much love to the Blind Tiger Ale House, being that most of us live and spend most of our time in Brooklyn. However, now that half of us work in Manhattan on the west side, and another Dog might be joining the Manhattan workforce, I see more visits to this [...]
Hoppin’ Frog says that B.O.R.I.S. (Bodacious Oatmeal Russian Imperial Stout) the crusher, its Oatmeal-Imperial Stout, “…will crush you like no other!” Consider me crushed. This is the last of the good number of Hoppin’ Frog brews I grabbed on a trip to Philadelphia a couple months back. Ohio’s Hoppin’ Frog beers are rating pretty high [...]
On the same trip to Maryland I espied a liquor store in a hotel across the highway from the one we were staying in. Going in to check it out I found a small but diverse selection of craft beers. Most of these were available in New York but there was the Terrapin [...]
Honestly, I didn’t think it would happen so soon, but here it is — another pretty much perfect brew that is so incredible and tasty that pretty much all I want to say is “Life is Beautiful.” But since I AM feeling a bit chatty, I’ll give it a shot and try to break [...]
