Another quick post, this time about a beer that I was quite surprised by. I’ve been down in West Palm Beach, Florida for a few days visiting my folks who winter down here — typical “snowbirds.” While the company of my family, fresh fish, good homecooking, and lots of sun are always on my agenda [...]
Historical British beer styles are among the greatest benefactors of the American Craft Beer scene, as they were the first and the most widely accepted of the various International cultures to be ressurected, redefined, and essentially kept alive by the tenacity (read: insanity) of American Brewers. While Belgian beers are more popular right now in [...]
The Sturdy Brewers are making a lot of appearances on this blog, and for good reason — their beers are perfect. For my recent birthday, Brew Dog t-bone recently brought me back a bottle of De Struise’s Struiselensis from Philly’s so-close-yet-so-far beer Mecca The Foodery, and I was almost as excited (I won’t say more [...]
Winter Beers aren’t really my favorite category — Winter Warmers, Christmas Beers, whatever you call them, they can be overspiced, cloying, and just plain weird when you get the wrong combination of ingredients together. Unfortunately for me, my birthday falls in the heart of Christmas Beer season, and since birthdays are the time when you [...]
2008 will by default always be my best year in beer, being that it was the first year that I fully dove into the madness of craft beer obsession. I sampled an insane amount of amazing beer this year for the first time — making my way through all of the Belgian Trappist beers, sampling [...]
The frequency and awesomeness of Beer Events in Brooklyn is reaching a frightening crescendo. Almost nightly you can cruise to various parts of the five boroughs and drink several lines of fresh brew from one of any of the hundreds of breweries that make it to Gotham — and that’s just the events which focus [...]
San Diego’s Beer Mecca status is well established. Ask anyone who has been there or has spent more than a couple hours there, and they will tell you: “The weather is perfect” and “The Beer is amazing.” Scientists are now trying to bottle San Diego sunshine and export it around the world, for more [...]
When I started to ferment hard cider in my basement, I knew that I had to get deeper into the world of hard ciders. Since I grew up in New York State, which still produces a hell of a lot of apples, I definitely knew the difference between commercial, filtered and pasteurized juice, and fresh [...]
Victory Brewing Company is another reason why I need to go to Pennsylvania on a beer trip immediately. I haven’t paid much attention to their beers critically yet, but a recent trip to Bierkraft to fill my growler had me choosing their Porter as the beer to bring to my Mom and Dad’s house where [...]
A strange combination of beers to say the least — each has become a classic commercial example of its style, by very different means, and in very different categories of beer altogether. The beauty of the “Life is Beautiful” tag is that it can apply to a range of things, even those as different as [...]
