Archive for July, 2008

Beer, Beats & Bites: ORVAL! (and some other beers…)

It’s been a while since I’ve done a round-up of links to my Beer of the Week columns over on Taste T.O., so here’s a run down of what I’ve been writing about over there for the last few months, including the world classic Orval…

Beer Examiner: Bud Light Lime vs. Miller Chill beer tasting.

I don’t have time to go out and try every beer iteration that’s in the market, so up until today, I never had the opportunity to want to try lime flavored Bud Light Lime and Miller Chill. At a recent beer conference an iced tub of f…

MNBeer – By, for and about Minnesota beer. Dedicated to MN breweries, brewpubs & homebrew: Acadia Cafe Specials

Juliana from Acadia Cafe sent me a little update on some of their specials:
Beer Nights Sunday-Thursday 7 p.m.- close. Here’s the schedule: Sunday – Bartenders Choice! Come and be surprised! Monday – Local Night – $1 off all local tap brews and …

Mississippi Brew: Keg & Barrel (Hattiesburg, MS) To Open Sundays

This Sunday at 4:00, Mississippi’s finest draft beer emporium will open its doors for the inaugural Sabbath Session. Local beer geek Butch Bailey was able to talk the owners into gambling that he could pack the place with enough other beer geeks to m…

Brew Lounge : Beer Tasting Brewing and Culture, The: Ommegang BCTC 2008: A Primer

There’s been quite a bit of activity ’round here lately related to Ommegang’s Belgium Comes to Cooperstown event, occurring again in just a couple of can’t-be-short-enough days. Not only with Chris LaPierre’s Two-Wheeling Chronicles, but with many of …

MNBeer – By, for and about Minnesota beer. Dedicated to MN breweries, brewpubs & homebrew: Ommegang Rouge at The Corner Table Rest

Another fine ale from Ommegang is making it’s way to the Minnesota market. Corey over at Hohenstein’s posted the following over at beeradvocate.com:
Beer Folk,
We will be debuting the Ommegang Rouge on draft @ The Corner Table Rest 4257 Ni…

Year of Beer: #328 Corsendonk – Abbey Pale Ale

Another beer from Corsendonk, first beer I has was their Brown Ale.This beer has a yeasty aroma with some Belgian spice flavor. The color is a golden with a haze. The haze is formed by large pieces of yeast floating around like a snow globe. the he…

Beer 4 Chx: The Water of Life

I just made a new friend from Scotland I did. Can you hear my bad Scottish accent? And he’s lit a fire in me and awakened me to another malt beverage – Scotch. Mmmm….Scotch. Scotch, Scotch….I love Scotch!I’d actually been nosing around whisky a…

Nate’s Beer and Brewing Blog: The Police in Concert

A couple of lawn tickets at the Post-Gazette/Star Lake Amphitheater were made available to us last week – $30 each, which was very reasonable for the Police tour. Primo seats were selling for $200, and that was face value.We drove to Pittsburgh on Mon…

LIQUID DIET: the blog: One Shining Moment…And Then the Inevitable.

Late this afternoon, I was driving along Boot Road, one of the great connector roads which stretch across the western Philadelphia suburbs so that you can get from place to place without hitting all the major, traffic heavy roads that the mundane peop…