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 [...]
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 [...]
On a trip out to the west coast a few months back, I firmly and finally fell in love with the insanity of American IPA and DIPA styles. Green Flash’s “West Coast IPA” was my first love, and since then, I’ve tried to sample as many examples of the style as possible. Two of these [...]
Bell’s Expedition Stout is a straight up glass of midnight. Thick, chewy, improbable, and huge on every level. When you’re pouring this beer into a glass, it looks otherworldly, like some other state of matter that fluctuates between liquid and solid. It has an insane amount of hops, an insane amount of malt, an appropriate [...]
Okay, so I clearly have no restraint — here’s the third beer from my run down to Philly. In the massive bank of refrigerated brews at The Foodery, Bell’s Batch 8000 called to me for a number of reasons including the amount of booze in this small bottle — a 9% ABV Witbeir? This [...]
Feeling good about our heavy family hang time, my wife and I decided to blow through Philadelphia “on the way” back from Maryland, meaning that it added a few hours on to the trip, but man was it worth it. We went to Philly to hit the Foodery, which I knew was stashing plenty [...]
