Hall of Beers

A  fine young beer, friends! And a Trader Joe’s-available (in fact, it may be an exclusive… someone research that and get back to me*) beer at that, so we’re talking $5.99 a six pack. Most affordable! But let’s not muddle around over who paid what for who when and why and where and let’s focus [...]

Friends, ever wonder if that delicious Budweiser you’ve just cracked open is really American? Then go away. Now. One, it’s not delicious. Two… you know little of the beer world. (ImBev mean anything to ya? Maybe a little thing called The Cotton Gin!? Aberdeen!!?? But I digress. And make no sense.) But there are some [...]

Friends, let me be frank. I don’t much care for Becks. It is a prosaic beer in the German style. OK, a prosaic German beer (it is imported… it can have that much from me). As most of you know, good ol’ Captain Beer isn’t one for light beers. If you want to cut calories, [...]

Folks, The Captain has been sticking to familiar waters lately. Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada and such—beers we have long ago discussed here. I did have a Pliny the Elder on tap on both Thursday and Saturday at the hep and well-tapped (go with it) Verdugo Bar, which I’m sure will become a new haunt. [...]

Why, just last Spring I brewed a Blackberry Wheat beer. So either great minds think alike or Jim Koch owes me a sweet piece of this action. No… no… I’m sure it was innocence that created this wonderful (sounding… but I have no doubt) brew. Take it away, Sam Adams On Tap Newsletter… 2008 Beer [...]

This is one of the best stouts I have tried in months. It hangs right up there with some of Rogue and New Belgium and other such top-tier brewery’s offerings. It’s… delicious. Go… go get some. Don’t bother reading this post, just go—hey get back here! OK. That’s better. Have a seat… relax…

New year, new beers! We’re back and much the same as ever, beervolk! New Year’s Eve was an extravaganza of wonderful beers and I shall try to get to many of them in time. But I begin 2009 with a review of a good old brew from Yuengling. As I was on the east coast, [...]

And… yet another deep doff of the cap. What… a… beer. I finally spotted a Sam Adams Holiday Pack the other day and leapt onto it, shattering every bottle and injuring a small Navajo boy. I wept at the lost beer for several hours and then, assured the young lad was resting soundly, went out [...]

Friends, we here in the Hall have started an informal rapport with the good people of the Karl Strauss Brewery (you likely know their Star Gazer IPA, Woody Gold or Red Trolley Ale among others) and I just got an email from them about a holiday beer that sounds like madness. You decide. I mean… I’m gonna try one. [...]

Friends, once again the illustrious team brew team of yours truly and Sergeant Stout teamed up 3 weeks back and brewed up a storm. Or rather two batches of beer. Then last weekend we bottled them… and something wonderful happened… both of our beers… while flat, tepid and not even done with their development (2 [...]