Beer Appreciation

A spicy, citrusy, refreshing Belgian Wit is the perfect beer for a warm spring or summer day.  Its finally starting to be not freezing around here and I can’t wait to spend a few afternoons out on the patio drinking too many pints of this tasty brew. If you like Hoegaarden, New Belgium’s Mothership Wit, or [...]

Some people have poo-poo’d the whole idea of an internet beer tasting as being rather anti-social.  Sitting behind the keyboard rather than in front of the bar.  Conversing with a bunch of virtual strangers 140 characters at a time.  Seems a little counter to the social nature of beer. I kind of see the point.  [...]

From those crazy cats at icanhascheezburger.com…

not to drink them, but to brew them! Next time you’re at the beer store, check the bottles of Oktoberfest brews for the word Märzen. It’s on most of them somewhere. März is the German word for the month of March and in the days before refrigeration it marked the end of the brewing season. [...]

A Randall? What the heck is that? Randall is short for Randall the Enamel Animal. He is a hop infuser of sorts. Installed between the keg and faucet, he is filled with of lots of whole leaf hops. The beer flows through them on it’s way to your glass, infusing your beer with big hop [...]