Should I call this group (beer) photo? Here we go, more beer for us, more beer for you. All of them are from Brouwerij/ Brasserie de Ranke. Now aside from the website (Opening July 2005? We’re almost in July 2008!) here are the beers: No. 236 Pere No…
I am a nice person. Really, I am. Yet this is the second time around at Zythos that I had to say ‘beurk’! Primula. By the Brewery Lupiline. Coriander, citrus, hops, bitter, sweet: chaos. Or simply my palette is not made for this kind of herbal, spicy …
Ahh children… You raise them, nurture them, give them the benefit of your knowledge, (or lack there of) send them out into the world to find their way. When they do find their way back hopefully they will bring back knowledge, experience and good…
The Wall Street Journal reports today that the Anheuser-Busch’s Board of Directors will reject the Brazilian-Belgian conglomerate’s $46.35 billion acquisition tender. InBev, it is assumed, will then take the battle directly to A-B’s stockholders.Anheu…
(We were on a short holiday break to Italy, no beer to speak of as we mainly concentrated on food and wine … now back …) So, Kempisch Vuur. Steamy. The Pirlot Brewery brews three beers, of which we tried two at the Zythos Festival. The Kempisch V…
Good news was reported from Utica yesterday: “We’re alive, we’re going to be well, and we’re here to stay,” said Matt Brewing’s Vice-President Fred Matt.As reported at the Syracuse Post-Standard, recovery is moving forward at the upstate New York brew…
OK, it may well be some time before I encounter Brew Dog’s Buzz, since it’s not likely to be imported on cask, and one sort of Paradox isn’t really the complete set, but I was still really happy when I saw the two Brew Dog bottled beers that I had yet…
An important characteristic in homebrewed beers is the ability of the beer to retain a nice foamy head for a long period of time. Commercial brewers go to great lengths to improve head retention by a variety of additives. However homebrewers also hav…
(Bend, OR) – The 2008/20th Anniversary Commemorative version in the Special Reserve Series, Deschutes Black Butte XX Imperial Porter, is on sale now along with Deschutes 20th Anniversary Wit, the next Bond Street Series release. Liquid Solutions is …
On Monday, I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Van Wyk and family. They were in route from Illinois, where Matt brews beer at Chicagoland’s award-winning Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery, to Roanoke, Virginia … and like all the rest of us, …