I read someone joke recently that they caught themselves pouring their coffee with the cup tilted, like you do when pouring a beer to avoid too much foamy head.   I, on the other hand, am fairly terrible at getting just the right foam on top, since it rarely matters with the swill I drink.  (Have [...]

I don’t think the French brew good beer, but French Canadian’s…..Sorta…. The burnt Malt flavor will hit you kinda of like a hockey player. However the Cocoa and vanilla flavor will mellow you out. If you like fancy coffee’s at Starbucks than this beer is for you….wait did Starbucks start a brewery? After a few [...]

Oh wait that is just the wrapping. Now I happen to be a little bit of a Newcastle fan (or Newkies as I call them…that’s right you can use that phrase now). It and Bass are probably my favorite English beers. But Newcastle isn’t even close to Bridgeport’s Beertown Brown which is my all time [...]

I was on a train to Portland one time with an Englishman. I invited him to a Portland brewpub and there he commented on how good American beers were and most English beers were S*** (S*** in an English accent sounds cool!). I had to find out myself so finally I decided to take the [...]

Funny enough, it turns out that drinking beer and writing well thought out blog posts don’t seem to go hand in hand. Looking back into my wobbly drunken photo archive, it turns out that I have quite a collection of brews I’ve never written anything about. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your perspective), now that [...]

I recently tried St. Peter’s Sorgham Beer, mostly (I’m ashamed to admit) on the basis of the novelty:  a beer brewed with sorghum instead of wheat, and in a bottle that looks like either aftershave or a laboratory chemical, but definitely not a beer bottle.  What exactly is “sorgham”?   For me, it’s always been the go-to plant [...]

You’d think I’d learn after trying an import from Poland (“cool!”) that turned out to be their Malt Liquor (“dag nabbit!”) that trying odd Eastern European imports with labels in foreign languages is a wild gamble.  But if you’ve been reading my posts so far, you now know that I never learn.  Those brain cells [...]

Seeing the Irish beer setups for St. Patrick’s day at the supermarket (during a trip to buy Cadbury eggs, if you must ask) reminded me of Smithwick’s Ale, a beer that’s apparently the true day-to-day beer of choice of the Irish.  Most people here in America know Guinness, a few know Harp’s and Murphy’s, but [...]

Maharaja’s Premium Indian Pilsner is a pretty straightforward and tasty imported brew with a somewhat-uncomfortably on-the-nose-stereotype picture of 19th-century Indian royalty on the front. I’d place it in the realm of Beers That Are Really Ethnic Stereotype Jokes From The Simpsons (or, BTARESJFTS’s), almost as though the creators were 1950′s ad men trying to paint [...]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you poured cold coffee in beer? Well wonder no longer. Hitachino Nest has answered that question by brewing up their Espresso Stout. A “Japanese dark beer brewed with coffee beans”. A beer, best described as tasting like rancidity and sadness. Now, I’m no fan of [...]