Hall of Beers

Bon giorno, signoras e signores! Adeso Io capisco molto bene l’Itiliano! If you got that, you too have a very shaky grasp of the Italian language. I just got back from two lovely weeks in Italy and boy, it’s great to be a workin’ man again! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GREAT! Ech. Anyway, while the times and the wine [...]

OK I have to come right out and admit that I have yet to upload the pictures I took of the Eagle Rock Brewery this weekend, so I kind of took or stole or whatever these from their site. Now that the air waves are clear and the Captain can rest easy, here is a [...]

Friends, The Captain admits he’s been up on deck a bit less than usual recently. I’ve been busy but dammit, no excuses… I need to be there more often for you beautiful beervolk or my name is asshat. I do hope my recent absence hasn’t left a bad taste in your mouth: * But, well, [...]

OK… I forgot to take pictures. Sue me.* So here is a doctored picture of Sgt. Stout and myself (we love our Brigadier Bock, but he was absent from yesterdays brewing**) and uh… so here’s us. To set the mood. So it was (or we hope it will turn out to have been) an interesting [...]

Friends, it was a lovely time. A tasty time! A Belgian Beer tasting time! Sergeant Stout, Admiral Ale and Brigadier Bock gathered around with ‘ol Captain Beer and we strode over to the superlative Red Carpet Liquors—one of Mrs. Beer’s and my favorite haunts!—and reveled in good beer, wisdom and revelry! Yes we… we reveled [...]

Folks, I know I haven’t been reviewing all that many beers lately, but I have a good excuse—the Cap’n has so much homebrew around the house these days that I’ve barely bought beer in the past few weeks. There are upsides and downsides to this. I’d get into them, but instead, I think I’ll just [...]

Friends, I’ll not do a review of this Captain’s latest homebrew per say, as it may seem A) self-serving and B) like an awful tease as, unless you’re on the HoB fleet or one of my South West-area compadres, you’ll never taste this sweet, sweet beer. Brigadier Bock and Sergeant Stout came over last month [...]

BELGIAN WIT ROUND III, KIDS! DAMN RIGHT!* That’s right, we brewed us another Belgian Wit, and this one’s going to rule. It’s been a brewy week, beervolk. The Mrs and I bottled our Blackberry Wheat two nights ago, and then last night we brewed us some Belgian Wit, baby! We’re talkin’ sweet dried orange peel, [...]

It’s that time again, friends. March. Moustache March. Soon, buddy, soon. Tomorrow actually. Or Sunday. I shall sport my mighty stache as I brew TWO batches of brau with Sgt. Stout. I’ve grown a yar young beard (or moustache farm, as we call it ’round these parts) and dammit, for too long has my lip [...]

Those there are but three of the many refrigerators devoted to fine beer at the superlative Red Carpet Liquors. I can often be found pacing back and forth before the hundreds of bottles, muttering and plotting. Yesterday, myself and Mrs. Beer went to a stout tasting event at Red Carpet, and it was the cat’s [...]