Hall of Beers

***DEAR BEER FRIENDS! THE CAPTAIN HAS JUST STUMBLED UPON A REVIEW BY MAJOR MICROBREW, WHO I BELIEVE IS IN A SIAMESE PRISON FOR USURY, BUT GOODNESS! FROM THE DUSTY ARCHIVES COMES…THE BEER I JUST REVIEWED! I SHALL LET THESE TWO REVIEWS DUEL IT OUT AND MAJOR, IF YOU EVER MAKE IT OUT OF THE ORIENT, [...]

Today’s hearty brew hales from the barrels of North Coast Brewing Company, located in Fort Bragg, California. Brother Thelonious is an abbey-style dark ale, brewed in the same yeasty tradition as practiced by centuries of our blue-balled Belgian brethren.

My second beer of the evening is a juggernaut, a legend amongst the beer-swillers of the world: Chimay Blue Grande Reserve. It all started in 1862, when a cadre of Trappist monks decided that they could not subsist on prayers and self-flagellation alone. The intrepid Belgians took to brewing, and traded in cries of [...]

My first beer of the night comes to us from Lagunitas Brewing Co. in Sonoma County, CA. At first glance, setting up a brewery in the middle of wine country seems a bit like placing a tanning salon in an albino leper colony. But even surrounded by legions of grape-fondling juice jockeys, Lagunitas [...]