Despite the dodgy internet connection, I’ve managed to sign up as an affiliate for Liquid Solutions, an online beer retailer. On many of the 400+ beer reviews on this site, you’ll now find a link to buy that particular beer (if available) at Liquid So…
Apologies for the intermittent posting – I have no internet connection at home at the moment and it doesn’t look like it will be back until Monday. It’s like being trapped in the dark ages! Regular posting will resume soon…
When I was asked recently —by a wine guy— if anybody could actually like beer, I replied that I assumed the question was merely rhetorical.But if I had been Michael Jackson, I would have replied:”Do you ever drink wine?” people ask me, as though b…
I guess we tried this one of fear it might be off. It is a Val Dieu Noel/ Christmas beer. Of course it wasn’t off! At 7% a pleasant beer, highly yeasty and malty, fairly balanced beer. Brewed by the Abbaye du Val Dieu.
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If you were wondering, after yesterday’s post, how to brew a Butt Beer, you’re in luck. Courtesy of “London and Country Brewer” (1736), here is probably the first description of how to make Brown Stout.”This is the strongest Butt-Beer that is Brewed f…
Well it was a long and less eventful Summer than I anticipated, though there were some really good times, times, times, and times, and would have been more if I wasn’t sick for so long. But with rotations starting this last week I’m out all day and …
There is a hint of sour fruit aroma, a little lemony. This beer has a golden color with some haze and flakes of sediment on the bottom of the glass. The head pours thick and pillowy with good retention.The taste is fruity with a well blended spice p…
Hocus Pocus stands as the final beer in a mixed 12 pack from Magic Hat. The three other beers in this twelve pack were: Odd Notion Summer, Circus Boy, and #9. The beer cap read “Just Beyond The Whales Tails Await For You Exquisite Ales”….
Here’s the best Norwegian beer I’ve not only ever tried, but ever imagined. I’ve been reading about the Scandanavian brewing revolution that’s well underway, turning a region packed with light lagers and light ales into a taste-expanding, expe…