We are smack in the middle of Snopocalypse 2010. More than half of the pubs and bars on H St were open for business! We hit Little Miss Whiskey’s for a Stone IPA and Founder’s Dirty Bastard (fabulously brown sugar-y). Then we slopped through the accumulated inches to the H St Country Club for a [...]
Filed under: Drink local on February 5th, 2010 | No Comments »
We just spent 10 days in Croatia on a “hey we’re 40!” trip. Zagreb, Zadar, Split, Korcula, and Dubrovnik, with excursions to Plitvice Lakes and Mostar somewhere in there. Absolutely gorgeous! All of it! The people, the architecture, the old stuff, the weather, the mountains, the Adriatic. And, most importantly, the beer (which is why [...]
Filed under: Beer, Drink local, Tasting notes, Travel on December 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
I’m in Louisville, Kentucky for a conference. Whenever I go to a new town, I look up a few breweries or brewpubs I can easily visit. I found two within a half-mile walk of my hotel in downtown Louisville: Bluegrass Brewing Company on Main Street is at the end of a long block of warehouse-type [...]
Filed under: Beer, Drink local, Tasting notes on September 11th, 2009 | No Comments »
I pulled this from this month’s edition of Real Beer News QUOTE OF THE MONTH “Bless, O Lord, this creature beer, that Thou hast been pleased to bring forth from the sweetness of the grain: that it might be a salutary remedy for the human race: and grant by the invocation of Thy holy name, [...]
Filed under: Beer on June 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
A Chicago theatre troupe has a show called BEER! http://www.neofuturists.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=191 Judging from their website, the reviews are good. And it’s probably a good thing they don’t actually serve beer during the show: There’s only one bathroom!
Filed under: Beer, Not beer on February 24th, 2009 | No Comments »
I have been drinking Long Hammer for about a year now. Next to Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, it is sort of my go-to beer. I tend to like hoppy, flowery, bitter beers. Over the last couple of months I have not enjoyed it as much as in previous months. It has an almost soapy taste.I [...]
Filed under: Beer, Tasting notes on January 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
Open it now? Or save it for later? Decisions…decisions…
Filed under: Beer on January 15th, 2009 | No Comments »