Bell’s just released Hopslam Ale, which means its time for me to drive to all my favorite liquor stores and pester the owners for release dates and times. Like many limited release beers, this one comes in and barely gets settled on the shelf before it is gone, and for Read more…
Welcome to 2018 beer lovers! I wanted to start out the year with something refreshing and complex. I landed on Brewery Vivant’s Triomphe, which is a Belgian Style IPA. I recently took a trip to their taproom out in Grand Rapids and I can’t remember having a bad beer there. Read more…
Myths surrounding the enigmatic Russian monk Grigory Rasputin have managed to survive to the present day. He supposedly had mystical powers that allowed him to survive being poisoned and shot, before succumbing to death after being thrown into a river. While the truth is certainly less interesting, North Coast Brewing Read more…
It’s Christmas time and with it has come the first accumulation of snow and my annual cold. I apologize for skipping a week, but everything tasted like cardboard and off-brand cough syrup. Since it is the holiday season I picked up Weyerbacher’s 20th Anniversary Ale. It is a Belgian style Read more…
Trust me, anything with the word ‘Lazy’ in the title gets my attention. Lazy Hiker Brewing Company is in North Carolina and I’m starting to think this neck of the woods is a pretty good source of some good craft beers. The history of the junction of North Carolina / Read more…
My apologies reader, but the responsibility of hosting and cooking for Thanksgiving this weekend has delayed my review this week. I’m going to make it up to you by reviewing Gonzo’s Biggdogg Double IPA, named Yummy Hoppy. Yummy Hoppy is well named, as it is both yummy and hoppy. It Read more…
This is certainly not some johnny-come-lately craft brew – New Belgium first pumped out the Abbey in 1991. The web site states their recipe was modified a bit in 2015; if that did anything it rounded out a smooth Belgian Dubbel. In a nutshell: a good beer but not an Read more…
What a nice little beer. The label calls it an ESB Amber Ale, an Extra Special Bitter. Not sure why they’d call it that, as the IBU’s tip the scale at a meager 32 and the taste, while certainly having a bit of a something like a bite to it Read more…
A friend recently handed me a can of Vanilla Bean Buffalo Sweat and asked me to try it out. I wasn’t sure what to expect out of Tallgrass Brewing Company out of Kansas, but I was not expecting a rich and creamy stout that balanced the dark malts with oats Read more…
With Better on Draft hosting The New England IPA Showdown, I thought I’d review one of the beers still in the running. Rochester Mills has hopped on the haze train and has put out Juice Bigalow Hop Gigolo. Now that this style is becoming more prevalent I wanted to not Read more…
