Hall of Beers

So it’s about time the Sarge came back with a good ole stout…in time for summer, no less.
Folks, let’s have a quick word about stouts. We know they’re ales made from roasted barleys, some good noble hops and yeast, but as I’ve indicated before, most microbreweries have compromised their craft to appease a wider audience’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

Guten tag, mein dammen und herren. Ich mochten ein friesches gud bier. Or at least that’s what I was saying earlier today (except for the first part. And the second was in English). Mrs. Beer and I went for a bike ride to the local purveyor of fine beer and on the pedal-driven journey, I […]

Ah, Bill Bill Bill….Not a sonnet nor Lady Macbeth can tame this dark $7 black tar of Gehenna! T’was a mighty dagger I saw before me whence I traversed the Food of Whole to find ye, O pitchmead from the House of William! Yeah, it was a dark, evil-tasting beer. Here’s what I thought.

Friends, you see those ‘lil bubbles in that thar airlock? That’s this Captain’s second batch of Belgian Wit brewing. Our first go round, complete with peels of orange, spice of cloves and cinnamon and uh… spice, and some secret hobo ingredients was, in a word, shweet. We’re almost out of our 2 case batch of […]

The Sergeant’s recent joy at the first sip of his homebrew IPA has me geared up for my stout, folks (our stout, Mrs. Beer). But… two more weeks. Two. More. Weeks. Damn. What a life to lead. Tomorrow we bottle, in 2 weeks we drink, in about a month… it should be a m a […]

So… I’m going to add nuts and coffee to my stout’s secondary fermenter. What do you think? You think I’m nuts (ha)? Well… if and when this brau rocks, you can eat those words, Mr./Mrs. You can eat them with a fork! And use your napkin. You have a little—yeah. I think it’s… pasta sauce? […]