Archive for August, 2008

Sybeeritic: Review: Podge Belgian Imperial Stout

Podge Belgian Imperial Stout from Picobrouwerij Alvinne
Rating B+

Appearance: Very deep brown color, slightly cloudy. Moderate head, some lacing.

Smell: Served far too cold, aroma was very closed. After warming it my hands for a good ten minutes, co…

The Beer Babe’s Brew Reviews: Long Island Beer Adventure – DEKS Restaurant

Last weekend I went to Long Island to celebrate my brother’s graduation from SUNY Stonybrook and to generally raise a toast to all the incredible work that he’s done over the four years he’s been there. There was a party in his honor, fireworks that a…

Lyke 2 Drink: Bristol & Beer

I spent last weekend attending races at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn., with my wife and 160,000 NASCAR fanatics. The Sharpie 500 night race for Sprint Cup cars is one of the toughest tickets in sports. It looked to me like most of the f…

LIQUID DIET: the blog: A West Coast brewer sends Philly his daughter and, soon, his beer.

Pete Ricks of Beer Valley Brewing Campany (Ontario, Oregon) was in town this past week. Before moving on to honest work, he did some writing for Celebrator Beer News and beloved editor Tom Dalldorf put us in touch a while back. Unfortunately, he was h…

maeib’s Beerblog: The Queen Adelaide Beer Festival

The Queen Adelaide is described as “Northampton’s Best Kept Secret”. Blogging about it here isn’t going to change that, but perhaps a listing in the Good Beer Guide under Northampton rather than Kingsthorpe, the village totally within the town border…

The Beer Brotha: Oktober in August

It’s still busting 100 degrees feel in Houston, but the boys at St. Arnolds have put out their Oktoberfest. I think they actually have their Christmas Ale out as well. I’ll hit that one later on when the weather dips below 80. But I grabbed the Harves…

Brewed for Thought: Introducing BrewedForThought.com

We’ve got new digs.  Change your RSS feeds, links, homepage, etc to www.brewedforthought.com

Hoosier Beer Geek: Drowning in One Ounce Pours of Ultra-rare Beer

It starts like this: a post on the RateBeer Calendar and Beer Advocate forums:Hello everyone! I thought I would go ahead and start a thread since I am leaving for my honeymoon and I just submitted this tasting for approval. Lots of great brews in the …

Beer Haiku Daily: Scary

Ghost River Brewing:
Their beers are so delicious
It’s downright scary.
Written by Dave Undis.
References: Ghost River Brewing
Thing of the Day: Our Haunted Lives: True Life Ghost Encounters
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A Good Beer Blog: So What Exactly Is A Session Beer?

A couple of articles I read this past week got me thinking again about that spiny question of what exactly constitutes a session beer. There was the last Tuesday’s article in The New York Times by Betsy Andrews entitled “The Other Extreme: Low-Alcoho…