REVIEW: Trader Joe’s Dunkelweizen »

Friends, those last few sips in the bespectacled, goatee-d and uh, pastel hatted Captain’s glass are Trader Joe’s Dunkelweizen. I was initially critical (this is years back, I’m talkin’) of Trader Joe’s beers. But then I started drinking them. By in large, they score. It still seems odd to me that a grocery store craft [...]

REVIEW: Josephsbrau Brewing Company – Winterfest Lager (Doppelbock) »

Ah, yes. Readers, there is a season we east-coasters have called Winter (except for you sissies in Florida whom I hope can remember how to read a voter ballot this election year). It’s about 18 degrees now, and I am not even factoring in windchill. It’s days like this why strong beer was invented–an efficient [...]