Miller… CRAFT!? WhooOOOaaH! *coughcough* »

Um. OK. I’ll just post a link to a thorough AP article, but here’s the skinny: Miller is going to start releasing “craft” versions of its Lite beer. There will be a blonde, a wheat and an amber version. I’m intrigued but not… like… I mean it’s wrong. It’s wrong! Here’s the thing—as I’ve said [...]

REVIEW: Hoegaarden! »

To begin this post, I would like to quote a stanza from the Byrds’ 1965 song Turn Turn Turn:

To everything, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn turn turn
And a time for every purpose, under heaven
A time to be born, a time to die;
A time to clean up exploded beers, a time to finally find [...]

REVIEW: Wachusett Blueberry – Juicebeer!? ish »

Sigh. You know that movie you love from childhood? Like, take certain Mel Brooks films… some are still hilarious (Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles) some I watch now (History of the World Part I) and I can’t believe I—you know, I’m going to stop there. That could become a pretty volatile choice of filmography to use as [...]

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: Widmer Brothers W’08 Crimson Wheat (2 of 4) »

Bam! Right backatcha, beervolk! Number 2 of my 4 part Widmer review jam session thang. And THIS brau, buddy, is a solid beer. I wish it were a regular fixture and not a one time (well… one year) release. But sadly, try this lovely red beer in 2008… because come ‘09, you can mumble, [...]