I wasn’t always a beer snob. In fact, I used to hate beer. But when I think back, I can always point to the one brewery that taught me that beer didn’t have to taste like urine (go keystone!). And that brewery was headed by the jolly, slurring, german guy who would pipe up on [...]

What, me rate a decent beer for a change?  No weirdness?  No valkyries on the label, no petrochemicals in the brew?  I admit the hometown Karl Strauss brews are a bit highbrow for my series of reviews — to date my only thoughts on Karl Strauss beer is that the name sounds good shouted loudly [...]