By Captain Beer on May 11, 2009 in Brew Reviews | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Captain Beer on Apr 14, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
HOOOOOOOOOOOO doggy! See below for their lovely label. Here’s just a quick little note to say that I finally had this beer and it it’s amazing. It’s everything you’d expect. BIG roasted malt flavors with notes of toasted bread, bitter coffee and a slight almost leathery outside. The hops are a bracing bitterness in tandem [...]
By Captain Beer on Feb 23, 2009 in Brew Reviews | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Captain Beer on Nov 5, 2008 in Brew Reviews | 0 Comments
There has been a lot of hoopla about this Budweiser / ImBev business recently, huh? Yeah. Great. As this Captain has said before, I care little for who owns Bud. Or any huge brewery, really. Keep Sam Adams and Yuengling and certain others under the same ownership, I implore you, but for the mega fellahs? [...]
By General German on Aug 26, 2008 in Brew News | 1 Comment
A great story in the link below, from the WSJ. They predict prices to fall over the next couple of years.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121970968791471283.html
By General German on Aug 24, 2008 in Brew Reviews | 3 Comments
WARNING: This beer should be consumed by someone with a lot of time on their hands. Like, seriously. This was not at all like the beer I chugged over the weekend during a little reminiscent pong action. This was a turn-on-some-light-music, open-a-good-book kind of beer. Indeed, this IPA is among the most extreme of brews–one [...]
By Captain Beer on Jul 2, 2008 in Brew News | 0 Comments
Afternoon, beervolk. Just a simple, straightforward review of a simple, straightforward beer today. None of my usual odd, byzantine ramblings about obscure, wacked-out beers. You may notice that I recently passed ONE HUNDRED POSTS in the venerable Hall of Beers. I’m not going to make a big deal out of it* or anything. I’m a [...]
By Commander Cheap on Jun 27, 2008 in Rants | 1 Comment
So the other night I went to an O.A.R concert with Action Jackson. I knew nothing of O.A.R. other than that “crazy game of poker” song, which is just fantastic… which always makes me thinking of a someone starting a fist fight and flipping up the poker table for some reason. Anyway, since I didn’t [...]
By Captain Beer on May 12, 2008 in Brew Reviews | 3 Comments
OK, maybe they’re holding onto past glory… maybe the beer’s namesake (Blue Ribbon) is in fact based off of an award they won, um, 112 years ago… but the beer is a staple of moderately priced* and refreshing** American lager, it helped a lot of us get through college, and, sadly, from the [...]
By Captain Beer on Apr 3, 2008 in Brew News | 0 Comments
Sometimes a lot of flavor hides behind pale brau, buddy. I’ve had many a Shipyard, but most of them were back in the sylvan days of my East Coast youth. I hadn’t had one in, say, a year. I’ll nary* go so long without one again. This beer is a damn fine balance of crisp-n-refreshing [...]