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This week while I was elsewhere, a package containing three bottles of Widmer‘s new seasonal, Brrr, arrived: Brrr is the winter seasonal version of Widmer’s W’06 Northwest Red Ale (read the comments from my earlier post), and I’m looking forward to reviewing this one. It also came with a press … Continue reading
It’s utterly apropos that I drank and am now reviewing the Flying Dog Dogtoberfest that I received the first part of the month: the beer won the Gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in the “German-Style Märzen” category. Congrats guys! This year’s version is slightly less in alcohol … Continue reading
This week I’m out of town for the first half of the week, with limited computer access, so don’t expect too many updates (if any). Next week is Theme Week here at The Brew Site, and since it’s October, I’d thought I’d have fun and go with an appropriate topic: … Continue reading
The Great American Beer Festival held their coveted awards ceremony yesterday, and by afternoon had the list of winners online; you can view the page here. They have the complete list in PDF format, but I like the searchable format they have on that page too; it makes it easy … Continue reading
I posted last month about this year’s Fresh Hop Tastivals, and the Hood River one took place on the 4th, last weekend. The next two are coming up the 18th and the 25th, in Portland and Eugene, respectively. Ironically, on the 18th I’ll be attending Deschutes Brewery‘s Fresh Hop Beer … Continue reading
November 29 date for one of Cornwall’s biggest parties of the year Real ale and music lovers are gearing themselves up for one of the biggest and best parties of the year as the St Austell Brewery Celtic Beer Festival prepares to celebrate its tenth birthday. The hugely popular event … Continue reading
The Great American Beer Festival started today. I’ve been following the ramp-up among the bloggers as they’ve been getting ready and traveling to it… this year likely would’ve been the year I’d have gone, had I not been affected by the economic downturn. (Don’t worry, everything turned out fine—but you … Continue reading
Next month’s Session is the 21st Beer Blogging Friday since it all started—which might be more of a milestone than #20 since, as I’m shamelessly lifting from someone else, 21 makes it "legal." The topic for the next Session (which is November 7th) comes from A World of Brews: When … Continue reading
Somehow between last month when I blogged about receiving Kona Brewing’s Pipeline Porter and now, I forgot to actually post, you know, the review. (I also missed two others I needed to post, but that’s another time.) Pipeline Porter is the seasonal from Kona that (you may recall) is actually … Continue reading
To spoil things right away: this year’s version of Jack’s Pumpkin Spice Ale that I received is much better than last year’s. Jack’s is brewed by Anheuser-Busch under the Michelob label, and it’s brewed with "farm-grown pumpkins, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves" to a 5.5% alcohol beer. Appearance: Clear, bright … Continue reading