The Hop Head Red comes from Green Flash Brewing of San Diego CA. BeerAdvocate lists its style as an amber ale but according to the label and the ABV it reads more like a big American India Pale Ale.
Read morePour Hard, Admire & Enjoy
Sawtooth Ale Nitro by Left Hand Brewing is an interesting twist on a traditional beer. Here are four reasons you'll love this beer and one why you may not.
Read moreLagunitas Night Time Ale
I found this a good beer that I think just by the name, you have to sip at night. Right?
Read moreMaine Weez Poured
Weez is dedicated to the brewers cat (thus the whiskers on the label) of the same name. I'm not a cat person but I wouldn't let that get in my way of a good beer.
Read moreSouthern Tier Goat Boy
The style from Einbeck was later adopted by Munich brewers in the 17th century and adapted to the new lager style of brewing. Due to their Bavarian accent, citizens of Munich pronounced "Einbeck" as "ein Bock" ("a billy goat"), and thus the beer became known as "bock". To this day, as a visual pun, a goat often appears on bock labels.
Read moreLagunitas Undercover Investigation
Lagunitas is one those brewers you know that you can trust to produce a great beer. This a beer that has been around for awhile but has that strange name. There must be a story here.
Read moreBeer - a four course meal
One beer as an adventure, one as an appetizer, one that would pair well with my meal, and one for dessert. Walla, I've turned a small plate of ahi tuna into an experience - well in my mind it was.
Read more20 Most Influential Beers
If you enjoy intellectual conversions especially when beer is the topic you will have a lot of fun with the banter over what are the 20 most influential beers of all time.
Read moreBourbon County Stout in a Paper Cup
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, a beer that has created a lot of beer buzz, no pun intended.
Read morePlan Your Meal
And so I thought it would be great if a restaurant would offer smart portions of a variety of beers so that you could have one with each course. And then it dawned on me - they do - they call them samplers, flights or paddles.
Read moreBeer, No-Part-Time-Passion
In the beginning there was beer - and it was good.
Okay, it was sometime after that but it was along time ago and it was good. It had to be because they kept on making it. And making it better ever since.
Read moreWisdom of Zappa
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
- Frank Zappa
An Irish Toast
“Here’s to long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A cold beer — and another one!”
A Way of Celebrating Life
“Taking an active role in learning about enjoying good food and good beer together is an attainable and rewarding way of celebrating life.”
Beer Seasons
Seasonals are a wonder to experience. It keeps life interesting that there are always a group of beers just waiting to be released. I keep telling any one that will listen, and some that don't, that this is a great time in history to be a beer drinker.
Read moreMax's Taphouse
I have read Short Course in Beer: An Introduction to Tasting and Talking about the World's Most Civilized Beverage more than once and a chapter I have studied is where the author lists some on the best beer places in the USA. Of course there is Monk's Cafe in Philadelphia and it also mentioned Max's Taphouse in Baltimore. It has been on the road trip short list ever since.
Read moreCicerone Me
The day finally arrived that I have been focusing on for months, the Certified Cicerone exam in Washington DC. For those that don't know, a cicerone is to beer what a sommelier is to wine.
Read moreBrew News
Growth of the craft brewing industry in 2012 was 15% by volume and 17% by dollars compared to growth in 2011 of 13% by volume and 15% by dollars.
Read moreFood and Beer
And this is what real beer can do: it can make every single decent meal you have an interesting and memorable flavor experience. It can be something that will light up your senses and make you actually want to pay attention to what’s happening on your palate.
Read moreHey, There's an Egg in My Beer
I love scrambled eggs in the morning (anytime really) and one morning was feeling a little playful. How would beer be in my eggs?
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