Archive for September, 2008

[BW] Beer Blog: Bearded Brewing’s Uno Orange Honey Wheat

Brewery: Bearded Brewing
Style: Wheat
Serving: 12oz Bottle

Instead of doing my usual pre-review spiel, I’ll let Eric from Bearded Brewing explain this brew from his original blog post.
This summer for my daughter’s first birthday party, w…

Speaking of Beer: Beer to Find for Show 53

Next up is a Beer As Folk show in which we find out all about the Shmaltz Brewing Company, most familiar as the crafters of the He’Brew line of beers. They brew tons of great beers and any one of them would accompany the show in tremendous fas…

Beer Haiku Daily: A Hard Days Work

after the yard work
I can barely grip my beer
my hands are so sore
Written by Captain Hops.

My Beer Pix: I’m drinking a Victory Storm King Stout and Sage is having a Wipeout IPA

Champagne of Blogs, The: Budweiser American Ale vs. Budweiser Lager

At a going-away party for a co-worker last night, I found myself at a sports bar in the pearl district whose name rhymes with “Schlitz.” It’s not my favorite place in the world, but they do have a lot of cheap bar games (plastic dart…

Yours for Good Fermentables ™: Einstein’s Oktoberfest

Today at noon ?Munich Germany time? the lord mayor of München tapped the first keg of the Oktoberfest. Standing in the Spaten (Schottenhamel) tent, he proclaimed “O’zapft is!” (“the barrel has been tapped”).Oktoberfest continues through 5 October…

Confessions of a Beer Geek: Let Oktoberfest begin!

It’s that time once again when beer lovers from around the world descend onto Munich, Germany, for the biggest and baddest Oktoberfest in all the land. This giant beer-love-in lasts for another 15 days 5 hours and 46 minutes (give or take an hour or t…

boakandbailey.com: Blackberry wit beer works

Blackberry wit beer, on our aspirational garden table, next to an aspirational salad
Last year we brewed a lurid blackberry wheatbeer. It was actually pretty successful — it was refreshing, very fruity and very purple. There were no off flavou…

boakandbailey.com: Wedmore beer festival

An arguably slightly stereotypical Somerset view
I had a great time at Wedmore beer festival last year.
Wedmore is in the wilds of Somerset, beyond the impossibly ancient, witch-haunted hills beyond Arkham near Cheddar. The beer festival takes place i…

a beer sort of blog: It’s All About the Benjamins

Right outside of Wrigley Field in Chicago are a number of buildings and rooftops visible from inside the stadium, for both live audiences and those watching on TV. One of them is the “Budweiser Building,” a bright rooftop that A-B has used to run a gi…