Since I was running late from the Upper West Side to band practice last night, I asked T-Bone to pick up the brews for practice. He lives right near a very competent deli that in the past has supplied us with more than enough good jamming fodder — Lagunitas Hop Stoopid, Stone Ruination, Sierra Nevada [...]
My wife doesn’t drink beer. This isn’t such a terrible thing — she still happily carts my fat ass to beer events, indulges my friends and I when we babble on about brewing minutiae, and does a bunch of other stuff for me that makes her a saint in my eyes. The thing about it [...]
Tracing the unique paths of influence back and forth between Europe and the USA in terms of brewing styles and techniques has been a particular focus of this blog since it’s inception about a year ago. Here we have an interesting if not more old school example of the same kind of cross-pollination, not between [...]
Short’s Brewing Company produces some of the most sought after beers in the spectrum of beer nerddom and it took me quite a while to get my hands on some. They don’t distribute outside of Michigan, they don’t bottle very much beer, and the beer they do bottle is pricey, hard to track down, and [...]
A few days after I got back from LA, I drove out to Ohio and back within a 24 hour period. It was a whirlwind that I just woke up from, but it was very worth it. I got to see some old friends, play some music in a beautiful chapel, and of course, drink [...]
I recently had the chance to visit, very briefly, one of my favorite cities in the country — Los Angeles. I often joke that I was sort of “raised to hate” the city, being from New York and wholly identifying with it’s version of The City, which a friend summed up by saying that “she [...]
Aecht Schlenkerla is the Bamberg, Germay brewer which is known for being the godfather of Rauchbier producers in Germany, and hence, the world. Fastenbier is produced in a limited fashion to be available only during the 40 days of Lent. This beer can get you through your other Lenten fasts, or, like me, it can [...]
It’s been over a week since my last post. A lot of things have been keeping me away from the computer to write about beer — but like I said in my previous post, dear readers, worry not about my beer consumption. It’s been staying steady and I’ve had the pleasure of trying even more [...]
Work has been dominating all of my writing time, but thankfully not all of my Beer Drinking time. Since I don’t have time for a full rundown, and I’m waiting for some illustrations for a few articles (a big Founders writeup, a bit about Brooklyn’s Kelso, and a few more), I thought I’d highlight a [...]
At the end of August I brewed a “Belgian Pale Ale,” which I called a “Sour IPA” at the time because I didn’t have anything else to call it. Since then, I’ve tried most of the easily obtainable examples of commercial beers which pair Belgian Yeast with big doses of American or Noble hops, [...]
