By Captain Beer on Jul 14, 2009 in Captain's Log | 0 Comments
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 [...]
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 Dec 18, 2008 in Brew Reviews | 0 Comments
And… yet another deep doff of the cap. What… a… beer. I finally spotted a Sam Adams Holiday Pack the other day and leapt onto it, shattering every bottle and injuring a small Navajo boy. I wept at the lost beer for several hours and then, assured the young lad was resting soundly, went out [...]
By Captain Beer on Dec 2, 2008 in Brew Reviews | 0 Comments
All I can think of at the moment is that scene in Dances With Wolves where Kevin Costner is yelling “Tatonka!” and making little horns with his fingers. Always good for a larf. Watch that movie and see how many times he flops onto his back in a comical manner… I believe the count is 4 [...]
By General German on Sep 20, 2008 in Brew News | 1 Comment
Today, I have made the biggest beer I have ever brewed–hence the new name, Bigiz M’cak Imperial Stout*.This desire for a really, really powerful beer entered my imagination when I first tried North Coast’s Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout. Having had many dry stouts, this thick, gritty, puts-hair-on-your-chest brew became a fixation of mine. [...]
By Sergeant Stout on Jun 30, 2008 in Brew Reviews | 1 Comment
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 [...]
By Captain Beer on Jun 4, 2008 in Captain's Log, Site News | 1 Comment
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 [...]
By Captain Beer on Mar 3, 2008 in Captain's Log | 3 Comments
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 [...]
By Captain Beer on Feb 23, 2008 in Brew Reviews | 7 Comments
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 [...]
By Sergeant Stout on Feb 22, 2008 in Brew Reviews | 4 Comments
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.