Sam: I’d been looking forward to this beer for a week, so yesterday, when my wife said we were having sammiches for lunch, and that she’d picked up some local specialty rye bread, I sprinted upstairs and put a couple bottles of Big Butt in the beer fr…
Steve: Duchesse de Bourgogne is a blend of 8 and 18 month old ales, and is an extremely rich, very sweet ale, with a sugary flavor to it….
Sam: My taste buds have really been going through a change of late….
Steve: Sprecher’s Triple is missing one thing that most triples have….
If we were not clear on this point as yet, our English expat pal in the Netherlands has made it abundantly clear in his last post wherein he sums up the 20th century. If I perhaps could claim to be The Jam – an accolade I would resist – he is no less …
I’ve brewed the second batch of what I call an Americanized version of English Special Bitter. I’m a little worried about this batch because the aroma is a little unusual. There’s a little bit of fennel or maybe a wisp of smoke. Phenols for sure, but …
November 15, 20086:30 pmto11:00 pmJoin us at Rock Bottom Chicago (1 W Grand Ave, Chicago) for the latest edition of the country’s oldest tasting of commercial beers. This will be a blind tasting – beers are served in souvenir CBS glasses to allo…
Scientists at Rice University in Houston, Texas are hard at work trying to create a beer that can fight cancer and heart disease. A student research team of six is trying to genetically engineer a beer to include higher levels of resveratrol, the che…
This beer has been sitting in my fridge for a while, which isn’t the best way to treat a saison ale. Furthermore, I don’t know why I allowed this to happen – I’ve been saison crazy for the last year. Maybe I just overkilled. Dunno…
I can’t believe I have not written about Koningshoeven aka La Trappe. Like the great soda v. pop conundrum, this sixth monastic brewery has divided the planet according to how people describe it. Bah! What’s that, you say? BAH, I say. Was not “La Trap…