Archive for October, 2008

Slashfood: Slashfood Ate (8): Halloween beers

Filed under: Beer, Lists, Slashfood Ate, HalloweenDid you know Halloween is one of the biggest drinking days of the year? Scary, huh? But let’s be honest, for most of us, we reach a certain age where our inhibitions have to be chemically lowered to ge…

Wort’s Going On Here?: Frankenbrew Video

Frankenbrew Video

Wort’s Going On Here?: Frankenbrew Video

Frankenbrew Video

Barley Blog, The: Brooklyn Local 1

I didn’t know too much about this beer when I bought it the first time a few months ago. I have since enjoyed a few bottles of it and felt it was about time I get off my ass and post a review for the Brooklyn Local 1.
I’m a big fan of just…

Mississippi Brew: Party Hearty

Clarion Ledger article about Friday’s Jacktoberfest.

Musings Over a Pint: Duck-Rabbit Brown Ale

I haven’t done a beer review in a while, but I tried a new beer this week that surprised me and I figured I’d share that find. It was a pleasant surprise, but unanticipated nonetheless. When I was in Durham for the World Beer Fest one of the beers I p…

Yours for Good Fermentables ™: List-o-mania and beer shops

Those Top Ten lists. Late night talk show host David Letterman’s lists occasionally are humorous. Other such lists can be ponderous or inane.Is #10 really better than all those #11s left off the list? What are the criteria? Were all choices researched…

Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Number of breweries question

This might sound like a weird question. Especially coming from me. Well, it’s not so much one question as a couple.Does anyone know:the number of breweries in the USA in 1996the number of breweries in Canada in 1976the number of breweries in Australia…

Madison Beer Review: Interview with New Glarus, Part II

The second part of our interview with Dan and Deb Carey of New Glarus brewing company. In this installment we talk about their new Alt beer, the unplugged Imperial Weizen, Bohemian Lager and Berlinner Weiss, their new R and D series, and our thoughts …

Lyke 2 Drink: Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve Launched in Limited Release

Whiskey barrel aged beers were not hard to find in Denver last weekend at the GABF. Now London’s Fuller Smith & Turner is showing its love of wood by releasing a beer aged in Scotch barrels.Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve is a 7.7 percent alcohol by v…