Archive for August, 2008

beernews.org: Beer Notes Midwest: Surly Darkness/Surly Hell Update; new New Glarus, Left Hand beers

Surly Brewing debuted Surly Hell, a Munich Helles-style lager, at the Great Taste of the Midwest recently. The limited-run beer will goes on tap this week (and it is only available on tap, folks). Perhaps more interestingly, today’s newsletter…

Great Canadian Pubs and Beer: Living With a Beer Nut – My Point of View

As I briefly mentioned here yesterday, my fiance decided to sit down at the computer and write a little piece on her view of living with a beer nut (Me). I gotta say that as someone with Celiac disease, she does put up with an awful lot of my obsessio…

Potable Curmudgeon, The: Contact NABC’s councilman and weigh in on the smoking ban.

As reported previously, on Thursday, August 21, the Common Council of the City of New Albany will consider 2nd and 3rd readings of an ordinance to prohibit indoor smoking in all workplaces in New Albany.The proposed ban is comprehensive and would incl…

Lyke 2 Drink: Tuesday Tasting: A Tale of Two Ales

Tuesday Tasting is a regular feature of Lyke2Drink that explores some of the best beers, wines and spirits on the market. This week we sample two ales launched by Anheuser-Busch.They will soon formally be part of the mammoth (we used to call them “gia…

Yours for Good Fermentables ™: The Philosophy of Enough

Here’s Rudi Ghequire, brewmaster for famed Belgian brewery Rodenbach:You have to have a philosophy to make beer. My personal philosophy is to make beers with a lot of taste and flavor but without too much alcohol. It’s not too difficult to make a c…

Beer Culture: Primátor Exklusiv: Best Lager In the World?

From the Primátor file: Pivní deník recently reported that the Náchod brewery won the prize for Best Lager at the World Beer Awards.
The surprising part? They didn’t win it for their Premium, a Pilsner-style beer, generally considered the f…

Realbeer.com Beer Therapy: The Oregon Brewers Festival Turns 21

The 21st Annual Oregon Brewer’s Festival week started out for me on Monday with Fred’s 17th annual beer and cheese tasting at Rogue Ales Public House, and though the Brewer’s Dinner on Wednesday kinda gets the juices flowing, it really doesn’t…

Pfiff!: And on the seventh day, there was Brett

And a lot of Brett, to be quite clear. Yesterday, we hosted the first ever Pfiff! beer and food tasting, a five-hour session of “The New American Mavericks”, a collection of American wild ales paired with fine nibbles held on a marginally summerish Sa…

Potable Curmudgeon, The: “Murketing” makes the Pabst seem fonder.

After making various gibes in the general direction of a weirdly rejuvenated Pabst Blue Ribbon, generally along the lines of my finding it constantly amazing that a beer so unspeakably bland and formless could inspire an inexplicable cult following am…

The Brew Basement: Southern Tier Creme Brulee Stout – Tasting and Aging Notes

Name: Creme Brulee Stout
Brewer: Southern Tier Brewing
Style: Imperial Milk Stout
Vintage: 2008

Cellared On: August 1st, 2008
Original Tasting: August 4th, 2008
Upstate New York can be a great place to live in during the summer. The Saratoga Track i…