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, put on your Sunday best, lie down on the tracks and cry yourself up a song, but all that will do is really... really freak me out. And not get you more of this beer. To re-cap, freak me out yes, more Crimson Wheat no. T H E B E E R ! . . .

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Good morning, beer readers. The damndest thing happened over the weekend. I had a slight cold---just stuffed up... no cough, no real headaches---but my sense of taste and smell vanished. VANISHED I TELL YOU!!! Now, normally I'm a sensible sort of person. I would never fly off the handle over not even being able to taste a spoonful of paprika and oregano. But when I ate just that (yes, really, exactly that) as a test, I couldn't taste a thing... and we had just bought a mixed case of Widmer Brothers beers. See that's why I was all hot n bothered. 4 types of beer... 6 each... can't even taste oreganprika. Anyway, the next day my taste was back so Mrs. Beer and I cracked open some braus and went a-tastin'. Today, we'll discuss the Broken Halo IPA... (it's the one on the left. That's why there's the big red arrow. We'll get to the one on the right, and a couple other Widmer's, soon enough, beervolk.)

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