Archive for August, 2008

brewvana: Off KILT er Experience

For the longest time, Millstream Brewing Company has been the only bottled option for Iowa beer. Narrow choices: bad for beer folk. And then there was Olde Main. Wider choices: good for beer folk.
Several weeks back, I ran across Off KILT er Scottish …

Confessions of a Beer Geek: Dundee does Beer!

No, not the short, funny Aussie crocodile dude from the movies. This is a whole nutha Dundee.So it’s mid-August here in Colorado and the weather has taken a decidedly wintry turn. The months of June and July encompassed record heat and record lack of…

boakandbailey.com: Stella up to their usual tricks

The geniuses behind Stella Artois really are trying to convince us of the historical worth of their brew. A new advertising campaign on the telly makes lots of intriguing references to “1366″, obviously designed to suggest that this is th…

Brewed for Thought: Thoughtful Recipes: Beer and Brats

If you’re going to cook, you have to know the basics. Cooking with beer is no different. For that reason, I wanted to share with you the most basic beer related recipe there is: beer and bratwursts. 
This recipe is very simple, you’re go…

Metropolitan Brewing: Bill Murray sky dives onto North Ave Beach

Yesterday, Friday the 15th, Bill Murray opened Chicago’s 50th annual Air & Water Show by doing a tandem sky dive with the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights. The Sun-Times article can be found here.

But the reason we’re posting about this is here. Raw f…

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Sybeeritic: Review: Castillo Cerveza Especial

Castillo Cerveza Especial from Marks & Spencer
Rating: D+

The penultimate beer from the dodgy Marks & Spencer Beers of the World pack, Castillo is a “truly classic example of Spanish beer…” at least according to the label.

Appearance: Pour…

It’s The Beer Talking: Review: Blue Point Blueberry Ale

A Fruit Beer brewed by
Blue Point Brewing
Patchogue, New York USA
ABV: 4.6%
Best served in: A flute glass
I like one good blueberry beer a year. I hold the same rule true with pumpkin beers. This one made it about halfway there – not bad but not the …

Relentless Thirst: Beer Geek Week 2008

Oyez, oyez, oyez! Capital Ale House has recently…

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Appellation Beer: Beer From a Good Home: #5 – Where in the beer world?

This week’s “Where in the beer world?” includes a person . . . for those of you with facial recognition software.
A hint? We bought “scratch and dent” cheese at a store in a nearby town. These are cheeses presumably from…