Hall of Beers

We’re still here, people… if you are. This Captain still drinks beer and thinks beer all the time. If you’re out there, beer readers… if you want us back here… oh, it shall be so.

Ohmigod… oh baby…. So we brewed a stout over at (hey!) Sgt. Stout’s house 2 weekend’s back and I bottled the sumbitch on Sunday. It’s going to be a life-affirming beer, I’m telling you. Kahlua infused coffee beans, darkass malts—this brew smells amazing, and is the color of motor oil. I’m sure there’s no way [...]

You know what? Screw it—this diagram made me proud as hell. Proud because, given the right circumstances, I would do serious damage to a 12 pack of Schlitz, but on any given day, this is about right:
http://www.sloshspot.com/blog/12-22-2008/How-to-Know-If-You-Are-a-Beer-Snob-92

Friends, it’s a happy time when a Sam Adams mix pack comes out. As you all know, darker, winter beers are this Captain’s favorite, but summer/spring beers are wondrous too. The most recent mixed 12er I picked up has 2 of each of the following: Boston Lager, Sam Light, Blackberry Wit (finally!), Hefewiezen, Summer Ale [...]

We’re… we’re still here dammit… just buckin’ fusy with lots of other things but I promise, beer volk, that Captain Beer is still out there sampling many a fine brew—he’s just been focusing on “mental” updates or… something. Stand by for Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale and Firestone’s Double Barrel Ale reviews.

Those daring, beautiful people have done it again: Jim Koch and his Samuel Adams crew have made me scream like a little girl. Here’s an article (ahem) lifted from their newsletter. Why gild the lily, I asked myself. Read on. Oh, the beer of it all!
Pushing Beer’s Boundaries

In 1984 Jim Koch first brewed Samuel Adams [...]

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.
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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, [...]